11 uses
- The road curved like an elbow, and as he approached it he heard the singers before he saw them.Three (64% in)
- Shivering, Denver approached the house, regarding it, as she always did, as a person rather than a structure.One (17% in)
- Her steps and her gaze were the cautious ones of a child approaching a nervous, idle relative (someone dependent but proud).One (17% in)
- If they had, chances are they would have hesitated before approaching her.One (30% in)
- Blinking fresh tears Denver approached her—eager for a word, a sign of forgiveness.One (63% in)
- At dawn two men with barnacles covering their beautiful skin approached them.One (68% in)
- Four women, walking two abreast, approached, their shoes loud on the wooden walkway.One (78% in)
- Fingering a ribbon and smelling skin, Stamp Paid approached 12 4 again.Two (13% in)
- They heard the dop of a horse approaching.Two (93% in)
- She approached the ignorant grandmother one day on the road, a woods preacher who mended shoes, to tell her it was all right if the money was owed.Three (24% in)
- She did not see the women approaching, accumulating slowly in groups of twos and threes from the left.Three (53% in)
There are no more uses of "approach" in Beloved.
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