Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: accosted
IPA transcription: [ək'ɑstəd]
Usage examples
  • An old man appeared, standing without, who accosted her thus:--
  • Once when Yen Yu was leaving the Court, the Master accosted him.
  • The policeman thereupon lay in wait for Jude, and one day accosted him and cautioned him.
  • On the evening of the same day, whilst meditating on what he had seen, he was accosted by a man of military appearance, and asked whether he was Dr. Beaton, the Scotch physician.
  • This poor gentleman had very little time to reflect on his own misery, or the rascality, as it appeared to him, of the other, when the same person who had the day before delivered him the guinea from the unknown hand, again accosted him, and told him a lady in the house (so he expressed himself) desired the favour of his company.
  • Whether it was that the descending twilight dispelled the painful constraint under which Marston had seemed to labor, or that some more purely spiritual and genial influence had gradually dissipated the repulsion and distrust with which, at first, he had shrunk from a renewal of intercourse with Dr. Danvers, he suddenly accosted him thus.