All 15 Uses of
approach
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
- Jeremiah de Saint-Amour loved life with a senseless passion, he loved the sea and love, he loved his dog and her, and as the date approached he had gradually succumbed to despair as if his death had been not his own decision but an inexorable destiny.†
Chpt 1
- At her side, struggling to keep up with her, the aunt with the brown habit and rope of St. Francis did not allow him the slightest opportunity to approach.†
Chpt 2
- He does not dare approach you because I am with you, but one day he will if his intentions are serious, and then he will give you a letter.†
Chpt 2
- Her preoccupation turned into despair as the December vacation approached, and she asked herself over and over again how she would see him and let him see her during the three months when she would not be walking to school.†
Chpt 2
- Letter by letter, he had no mercy as he poisoned himself with the smoke from the palm oil lamps in the back room of the notions shop, and his letters became more discursive and more lunatic the more he tried to imitate his favorite poets from the Popular Library, which even at that time was approaching eighty volumes.†
Chpt 2
- He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.†
Chpt 2
- From time to time he would be approached by a poor woman who had a problem with one of her children, a war veteran who persisted in demanding payment of his pension, someone who had been robbed and wanted to file a complaint with the government, but no matter how he tried, he could not satisfy them, because the only convincing document he could write was a love letter.†
Chpt 4
- When he realized that he had begun to love her, she was in the fullness of her years, and he was approaching his thirtieth birthday.†
Chpt 4
- She remembered the taste of the guavas, which had never been the same again, the warning thunder, which had been so intense that its sound was confused with the sound of rain, the topaz afternoons in San Juan del Cesar when she would go walking with her court of excited cousins and clench her teeth so that her heart would not leap out of her mouth as they approached the telegraph office.†
Chpt 4
- He waited for the afternoons with unbearable longing, he forgot his other commitments, he forgot everything but her, but as his carriage approached the Mala Crianza salt marsh he prayed to God that an unforeseen obstacle would force it to drive past.†
Chpt 5
- When he saw the first light of dawn on the horizon, he attempted an indirect approach.
Chpt 6 *approach = technique (way of doing something)
- When he began, he was prepared to subject his patience to a crucial test, at least until he had proof that he was wasting his time with the only new approach he could think of.
Chpt 6approach = way of doing something
- He hung up without speaking, but the infinite distance of that unapproachable voice weakened his morale.†
Chpt 6 *
- It seemed incredible, but as the first anniversary of her husband's death approached, Fermina Daza felt herself entering a place that was shady, cool, quiet: the grove of the irremediable.†
Chpt 6
- Despite all her travels, she felt as if this were her first trip, and as the day approached her agitation increased.†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
-
(approach as in: use the best approach) a way of doing something; or a route that leads to a particular place
-
(approach as in: approached the city) to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)