(v. t.) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
(v. t.) To approach; to make up to.
(v. t.) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
(v. i.) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
(n.) Address; greeting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Russian president Vladimir Putin, left, is accosted by a Femen activist in Hanover as the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, looks on.
(2) #ocetisakowincamp #nodapl A photo posted by Colin McCarthy (@colinnnnn) on Nov 12, 2016 at 10:34am PST The man, identified as Richard Leingang by the Morton County sheriff’s office, was driving on County Road 82 when he was “stopped and accosted by protesters”, said Maxine Herr, a spokeswoman for the sheriff’s office.
(3) Around the time we were filming the second series of CTM, I attended a midwifery conference and was accosted by a midwifery admissions tutor who told me in mock accusation that I was making her life extremely difficult; her midwifery course had 16 places, and that year she had almost 1,000 applicants.
(4) Morrissey made his first TV appearance in a period drama Stumbling accidentally on to the Coronation Street set as a teenager, Morrissey found himself accosted by a woman bearing a bundle of scripts.
(5) Apparently so – but with social media in meltdown at the prospect of Peter Dutton’s black-garbed men accosting strangers and demanding their papers, the under-the-clocks press conference quickly descended into predictable chaos.
(6) As we walk near his home – Moore greeting local business owners and passersby like old friends, or posing for pictures with strangers who accost him, street art by Shepard Fairey and D*Face on every other wall – it feels like hipster heaven: the wide streets and unbroken blue sky a Californian antidote to the claustrophobic and hypercompetitive buzz-chasing of east London or Brooklyn.
(7) Responses to Doyle’s tweet included one from another Twitter user who asked : “What has a Muslim woman in Croydon, got to do with the horrific events in Belgium, you simpleton?” Another, referring to the far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik, asked : “Did anyone accost you on the streets of Croydon after the Brevik shooting in Norway?
(8) This, in my view, is a much graver breach of BBC guidelines than giving unchallenged airtime to one political party but not others, as the bosses are the people who possess real power – those, in other words, whom the BBC has the greatest duty to accost.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest There is a heartbreaking scene in which the wonderfully plump Sara, Emma's six-year-old sister, is accosted by a (female) lifeguard who asks where her bikini top is: "She's on her way to becoming a woman, she should be covered."
(10) A week later, police accosted a friend of mine as she was leaving a dinner.
(11) Photo: Steve Ullathorne Rhys Darby: The chap from the rural working men's club who accosted me in the toilets after a gig with the line, "How many people have told you you're funny?
(12) In the pre-dawn hours of June 18, 1989, four men accosted and fatally shot Dana Feitler, a University of Chicago business school student, in her posh Gold Coast neighborhood.
(13) In her intense refutations of my casual comments about cyclists, for example (I am not a cyclist and have just nearly been run over by one; she was chair of the all-party cycling group), I can still hear the earnest young campaigner who once accosted a graffiti artist and lectured him about his social responsibility.
(14) After being accosted on the stairs by other residents, she was too frightened to use the communal kitchen to heat her daughter’s milk or her own food.
(15) When he was accosted by a security guard, Jackson said: “I just needed another jacket, man.” A few months later Jackson was convicted of shoplifting and sent to Angola prison in Louisiana.
(16) They accosted a steward almost crossly, demanding: "Is this free ?"
(17) Another woman – small and dark-haired – was the one who accosted the assailant first."
(18) Helal Raman, a local Labour activist who had appeared in the Panorama programme, claimed he had been accosted by one of Rahman's supporters as they filed past the body of a recently deceased mutual friend at a mosque.
(19) Subsequently, another tabloid discovered Paddick's then partner was on a particular transatlantic flight, and was able to accost him: "The inference must be that private information was obtained."
(20) "A police officer jumped out of his truck to try to halt the gruesome attack and was accosted by the crowd and accused of being a traitor.
Greeting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Greet
(n.) Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(2) Governor General Quentin Bryce, the monarch's representative in Australia and the first woman to fill the role, had greeted the Queen by curtsying.
(3) Here's Rob Booth talking to me from there: Updated at 6.31pm BST 6.14pm BST Disappointment at the Ecuadorian embassy Outside the Ecuador embassy in Knightsbridge a handful of Assange supporters greeted the decision with disappointment.
(4) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
(5) When the plane bringing his friend in touched down, they were greeted with a recorded welcome from the Queen telling them that they had now arrived in a safe country.
(6) This was greeted by a furious wall of sound from Labour, which only grew when he added: "The last government failed to prioritise compassionate care … they tried to shut down the whistleblowers …" It was pure party-political point-scoring, matched in spades by Labour's Andy Burnham.
(7) China greeted the announcement of Liu Xiaobo’s win with fury: a foreign ministry spokeswoman, Jiang Yu, attacked the event as a “political farce”.
(8) The sugar tax was greeted with hostility by the industry and Wright argues that the levy, introduced by the chancellor in the budget , will be undermined by flawed analysis of its impact.
(9) As a non-executive director of the football club, it is understood he was largely "meeting and greeting" opposing clubs' directors on matchdays, but he was consulted on financial issues, the appointment of managers and major signings.
(10) The same-sex marriage bill became law, greeted with delight by the gay community and suspicious resentment by many Tories.
(11) The ghastliness of this American shock jock, who, though still obscure to most Britons, is said to be the third most popular radio host in the States, perhaps explains why news of his continued exclusion from the UK was greeted last week with utter indifference.
(12) Someone you haven't seen for a while greets you with a surprised cry of "You look well!".
(13) In any village in South Kivu, his arrival is much like the arrival of the pope – throngs of people greet him, thousands of women whose lives he has saved or healed or touched celebrate him.
(14) Popular magazines, greeting cards, and cartoons weave themes about time into the fabric of other messages.
(15) After that the new pope will be brought out to greet the crowd.
(16) Louis Pasteur's vaccine against rabies, introduced 100 years ago, was greeted by the American medical community with a mixture of praise and skepticism.
(17) They were the same two men who greeted Abu Ali as he crawled through a hole in the border fence to freedom on the night of 25 May 2015, just over four months after he had entered Isis territory.
(18) Yet he never revealed the open resentment with which some of the Kennedy loyalists greeted Johnson.
(19) Shortly afterwards normal service was very briefly resumed when, with Cardiff overcommitted to attack, a customary roar greeted Newcastle's third goal, a header from the popular, Geordie-reared substitute Steven Taylor.
(20) Once through the door, Romney will be greeted warmly by Cameron.