All 18 Uses
approach
in
Insurgent, by Veronica Roth
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- Tobias approaches a small metal box on the right side of the gate and opens it, revealing a keypad.
Chpt 1approaches = goes to
- Eventually someone from each of the big groups stands and approaches Johanna, picking their way carefully over the roots of the big tree.
Chpt 2approaches = goes toward
- I see the gleam of a small train car, far away now but approaching fast.
Chpt 8approaching = getting nearer
- I watch the first car approach; listen to the rhythmic bump of the car over the ties, the whisper of metal wheel against metal rail.
Chpt 8approach = come near
- My fellow sweepers back up to get out of the way, but I stay where I am, heat rushing through me as Zeke and Tori approach.
Chpt 19 *
- The city is so quiet in the morning that the footsteps echo as they approach the bridge.
Chpt 21approach = get near
- How does this change our approach to the new simulation serum?
Chpt 29 *approach = technique (way of doing something)
- Rather than waste any more time, Mr. Eaton, I thought I would take the most logical approach.
Chpt 31
- But approaching the gate are a few moving specks—silver, when the light catches them.†
Chpt 7
- I walk toward him as if approaching a wild animal, each footstep careful on the cement floor.†
Chpt 8
- A Dauntless soldier with an arm in a sling approaches us, gun held ready, barrel fixed on Tobias.†
Chpt 10
- His footsteps slow when he approaches me.†
Chpt 16
- He approaches me slowly.†
Chpt 17
- I hear someone approaching, and look to the side.†
Chpt 27
- But before I make it there, Lynn approaches me.†
Chpt 27
- A dark-skinned man with a gun in hand approaches Marcus's window.†
Chpt 39
- She approaches me first, clasping my hand.†
Chpt 39
- The doctor approaches Lynn and asks the two Dauntless to set her down.†
Chpt 46
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.