All 14 Uses of
approach
in
BoneMan's Daughters
- The fact that he'd managed to temper that desperation through great effort did not keep him from sweating as the time approached.
Chpt 20 *approached = got near
- And for a single second he considered stopping and developing a more stealthy approach.
Chpt 38approach = getting near
- Lieutenant Gassler approached, cracking his neck.†
Chpt 1
- He knew where the man was headed, but his approach was meaningless because, unlike many Muslims who believed they were following God in political matters, his own belief in God was far too distant to consider in the same thought.†
Chpt 3
- There's two ways you can approach this.†
Chpt 11
- He'd killed the German shepherd that had barked on his approach to the first victim in El Paso, but caught unprepared, he'd resorted to a bat over the animal's skull, not an ideal distraction in the heat of a taking.†
Chpt 16
- Alvin slowed the Ford F-150 pickup down as he approached the sign along Highway 166 that read CROW'S NEST RANCH, 2 MILES.†
Chpt 22
- Just his headlights, and as he approached the seven-mile marker headed south, he felt conspicuous, so he turned off the headlights as well.†
Chpt 24
- He slowly pushed himself to his feet, set the cell phone on the bed, picked up the sledgehammer, and approached Burton Welsh's unconscious form.†
Chpt 26
- Approaching the house you could see nothing out of place, certainly nothing that indicated the kind of tragedy hidden by the four white walls of the Heath homestead.†
Chpt 26
- You're approaching the road.†
Chpt 26
- And now he was approaching her.†
Chpt 29
- The man had said first light, and first light was approaching.†
Chpt 31
- Alvin walked back to the door, locked it, then approached her.†
Chpt 33
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.