All 18 Uses
approach
in
A Shade of Vampire
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- Leaning over the railing and looking down at the ground below, I felt him approach behind me.
p. 30.8 *approach = get near
- He continued to approach until the sharp edge of the stake was denting his skin.†
p. 165.1approach = to come near or nearer
- Corrine most likely saw that she wasn't going to get anywhere with her line of questioning, so she tried a different approach.
p. 224.6 *approach = way of doing something
- Ben and I whirled around to see who was approaching.†
p. 23.5
- There was an audible sigh of relief as we passed them, only to be replaced by another burst of cries as we approached the next cell.†
p. 53.2
- I approached within two feet of her and immediately regretted it.†
p. 78.8
- I wanted to run—the same way I should have when Lucas had first approached me on the beach.†
p. 103.6
- Derek held me closer against his chest as they approached.†
p. 161.3
- He approached closer to me.†
p. 164.6
- His arm and stomach muscles rippled as he approached within two feet from me.†
p. 164.7
- I motioned to lower the stake as he approached, but he held up his hand.†
p. 164.8
- Each time he managed to approach me too quickly and too close for me to meet my mark, and he managed to knock the stake from me.†
p. 168.3
- I felt nothing but shock as I approached him.†
p. 190.1
- When Sofia had approached me, she'd acted the same way I did.†
p. 244.9
- As I approached her, a pensive expression replaced the smile on her face.†
p. 245.4
- She approached Ben and caressed his cheek with the back of her hand.†
p. 255.2
- Lucas approached you earlier.†
p. 258.2
- He sighed as he approached the mural of the beach on the wall.†
p. 264.1
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.