- present tense form of accost (3rd person singular).
accosts
Example Sentences
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Drought conditions in Yorkshire have seen water levels in parched reservoirs tumble to below 50% full, and in Scar House's case to expose building, dry stone walls and gateposts.
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2022
Even when police saw him tagging the City Hall gateposts, they sped past him, ignoring a crime for which 3,598 people were arrested by the New York Police Department the following year.
From Washington Post • Feb. 10, 2017
A previous owner had carved the name Afterwhiles on the stone gateposts in the front drive.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 8, 2014
She doesn't seem to see any loveliness in Gissing Hall, just a lot of stuff she doesn't like – the gateposts, the carpets, the bedrooms, pretty much everything.
From The Guardian • Aug. 18, 2011
Bolting recklessly from side to side down the road, the blinkered animal failed to see the twin stone gateposts on its right—skidding crazily, the cart smashed into the uprights.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
