All 17 Uses
approach
in
Message in a Bottle, by Sparks
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- After a moment of silence, Jeb Blake tried another approach.†
Chpt 7 *approach = a way of doing something
- She approached the question gingerly, wary of what an admission like that would mean.
Chpt 9 *approached = began talking about
- As she approached, she noticed something different about the way it looked.†
Chpt 1
- It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon, and I find that I grow fearful as it approaches.†
Chpt 1
- She waded in to her hips, then went under as a small wave approached.†
Chpt 2
- She hadn't worked on her next column at all, and she felt the pressure building behind her neck, as it usually did when her deadline approached.†
Chpt 3
- As she approached the boat, however, the first thing she noticed was that no one seemed to be around.†
Chpt 5 *
- He smiled but didn't approach her, as if he were afraid she would feel trapped.†
Chpt 5
- She didn't look as nervous as he felt, nor did her expression betray what she was thinking as she approached him.†
Chpt 6
- As they approached the inlet, Garrett Blake turned the wheel.†
Chpt 6
- Happenstance rocked slightly in the rising swells as it approached the inlet, and Theresa looked over her shoulder for the things she had brought with her.†
Chpt 6
- Not enough to see each other well, but enough so that other boats would see them approaching.†
Chpt 6
- As they approached the door, Theresa looked at the house for the first time.†
Chpt 8
- She was approaching the edge of the cliff.†
Chpt 11
- A siren blared in the distance, growing steadily louder as it approached.†
Chpt 11
- Finally she approached him.†
Chpt 12
- The hectic atmosphere in the newsroom helped as well, and because the conference call with Dan Mandel had turned out to be everything Deanna promised it would, Theresa approached her work with renewed enthusiasm, preparing two or three columns a day, faster than she'd ever written them before.†
Chpt 13
Definitions:
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(1)
(approach as in: approached the city) to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
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(2)
(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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(3)
(approach as in: approached her with the proposal) to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely (and typically only in classic literature), the phrase nearest approach to as used in "her nearest approach to an apology" or "her nearest approach to a smile" typically means that "something is as close to something else as it ever gets." "As near an approach to" can have a similar meaning.