All 14 Uses
approach
in
The Rainbow Trail
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- Remembering Withers's revelation about the Navajo, Shefford scarcely knew how to approach him now.
Chpt 4 *approach = begin communication with
- The mule showed his cunning and always appeared to present his heels to Withers, who tried to approach him with a pack-saddle.
Chpt 5 *approach = get near
- And he watched the sun go down and the gold sink from the peaks and the red die out of the west and the gray shadows creep out of the canyon to meet the twilight and the slow, silent, mysterious approach of night with its gift of stars.
Chpt 8approach = coming
- Then Shefford made out that they were approaching him.†
Chpt 1
- As he rode away from the pool he saw a large flock of sheep approaching.†
Chpt 2
- They let him pull their long ears and rub their noses, but the mustangs standing around were unapproachable.†
Chpt 3unapproachable = unable to get closer tostandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unapproachable means not and reverses the meaning of approachable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- A bright blaze of camp-fire greeted him, and the dark figure of the Indian approached to intercept and catch Nack-yal.†
Chpt 4
- Nack-yal approached too close to the mother of the colt, and she gave him a sounding kick in the ribs.†
Chpt 5
- That change was at first hard to define, but from every point by which he approached it he came to the same conclusion—the bishop had not objected to his presence in the village.†
Chpt 7
- And trouble might come if they—approach the women.†
Chpt 11
- Shefford approached Ruth's cabin in a roundabout way; nevertheless, she saw him coming before he got there and, opening the door, stood pale, composed, and quietly bade him enter.†
Chpt 15
- He approached her, drawn in spite of a feeling that perhaps he ought to stay away.†
Chpt 16
- That was a wild place they were approaching, and, once in there, he believed pursuit would be useless.†
Chpt 17
- Fay and Jane and Lassiter showed strangely against this background of approaching civilization.†
Chpt 20
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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(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.