accostin a sentence
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As she walked down the street, a stranger suddenly accosted her, asking for money.accosted = approached aggressively or inappropriately
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The reporter accosted the politician as she left the building, bombarding her with questions about the recent scandal.
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Several more onion trucks passed by, their smell accosting her eyes and nose as much as the diapers. (source)accosting = aggressively engaging
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It was the same answer he gave on the school bus when Dana Matherson accosted him on his first day, and from then on Roy was "Tex" or "cowgirl" or "Roy Rogers-hardt." (source)accosted = attacked
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When we were on the sidewalk in front of Miss Maudie's, Mr. Avery accosted us. (source)accosted = approached and spoke in a challenging manner
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A few blocks from home, he was accosted by two robbers. (source)accosted = approached and threatened
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He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking much. (source)accosted = approached and spoke in a demanding or inappropriate manner
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He got out and he knelt and, grinning at Edgar, let the dogs accost him.† (source)accost = approach and speak in a demanding or challenging manner
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Finally, by accosting strangers for directions (rosy housewives with armloads of flowers, tobacco-stained hippies in wire-rimmed glasses), I retraced my path over canal bridges and back through narrow fairy-lit streets to my hotel, where I immediately changed some dollars at the front desk, went up for a shower in the bathroom which was all curved glass and voluptuous fixtures, hybrid of the Art Nouveau and some icy, pod-based, science fiction future, and fell asleep face down on the bed—where I was awakened, hours later, by my cell phone spinning on the bed table, the familiar chirrup making me think, for a moment, I was at home.† (source)accosting = approaching and speaking in a demanding or challenging manner
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An hour later, he accosts her in the midway, drops to his knees, and wraps his arms around her legs.† (source)accosts = approaches and speaks in a demanding or challenging manner
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What mattered was that they let me through, and I passed them and the few vampires in the ballroom, unaccosted, to stand at last at Armand's open door.† (source)unaccosted = not approached in a demanding or challenging mannerstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unaccosted means not and reverses the meaning of accosted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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Rudy found him and accosted him in the eyes.† (source)accosted = approached and spoke in a demanding or challenging manner
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The way I heard it, Lee didn't actually accost the man.† (source)accost = approach and speak in a demanding or challenging manner
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Mrs. Liddell was no longer accosting the door to her room.† (source)accosting = approaching and speaking in a demanding or challenging manner
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Someone accosts them.† (source)accosts = approaches and speaks in a demanding or challenging manner
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A Talib accosted them and blocked their way.† (source)accosted = approached and spoke in a demanding or challenging manner
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