All 14 Uses of
approach
in
Just Listen
- While my dad chose to take a hands-off approach to us working-as he did to everything even vaguely girly, from Tampax to broken hearts-my mother thrived on it.†
Chpt 2
- A girl carrying a piece of poster board walked past me, then slowed as she approached him, and I watched her as she carefully stepped over his feet, like Jack from "Jack in the Beanstalk" creeping past the sleeping giant.†
Chpt 4
- She was instead a born stoic, extremely logical, her entire approach to life one of figuring out problems, stating solutions, and moving on.
Chpt 4approach = technique (way of doing something)
- Looking back, maybe if I had approached Clarke again, we could have worked things out.†
Chpt 4
- Above the movement, I could hear the whirring of the security guard approaching on his golf cart.†
Chpt 4
- "So where do you live?" he asked me, switching lanes as we approached a stoplight.†
Chpt 5
- "Well," he said as we approached another stop sign, "that's good to know, I guess."†
Chpt 5
- But he was also hard to read, the kind of guy who is just attractive enough that a warm personality is almost required to make him approachable.†
Chpt 6
- "Will could have any girl he wanted," she said, slowing down a bit as we approached a row of houses on the left.†
Chpt 6
- For a while, though, I'd tested him, soliciting his opinion on various things, like my clothes ("Not your best shade," he told me about a new peach-colored shirt), his initial impression of me ("Too perfect and completely unapproachable"), and the state of his love life ("Nonexistent, currently").†
Chpt 9
- "Dr. Hammond," my mom said, and this time, Whitney rolled her eyes at his name, "says that this woman, Moira Bell, has had great success with many of his patients because she takes a different approach."
Chpt 9 *approach = route (way to achieving something)
- But this time as we approached each other, I could feel her staring at me, willing me to turn my head, pulling my gaze in her direction.†
Chpt 12
- "There you are," she said as I approached.†
Chpt 13 *
- As I approached, the first thing I saw was Rolly at the controls in the little room adjacent to it; he had on a bright green T-shirt and a baseball hat turned backwards, his headphones over it.†
Chpt 18
Definitions:
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(approach as in: use the best approach) a way of doing something; or a route that leads to a particular place
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(approach as in: approached the city) to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)