All 8 Uses

approach
in
Hillbilly Elegy
(Edited)

The would-be thief could barely crawl, so Mamaw approached him, raised the business end of her rifle to the man's head, and prepared to finish the job.
p. 15.6 *

approached = moved toward
Chris approached me, pushed me, and asked what I planned to do about it.
p. 68.8

approached = came near
He held that pose for a little while, until we both heard Mamaw approaching the living room.
p. 78.4

approaching = moving toward
I saw him during visitations before the adoption, I would hide under the bed for the first few hours, fearful that he would kidnap me and never let me see Mamaw again. Seeing his son in such a frightened state led him to reconsider his approach.
p. 94.8 *

approach = technique (way of doing something)
Uncle Pet approached, frustrated that Mamaw and Papaw were holding up traffic.
p. 106.6

approached = got near
When I located her in the crowd, she seemed trapped in some sort of trance: saying little, even to those who approached her; her movements slow and her body slouched.
p. 109.3

approached = went to
One very shy boy approached me and held out his hand.
p. 173.3

approached = come to
However you want to define these two groups and their approach to giving—rich and poor; educated and uneducated; upper-class and working-class—their members increasingly occupy two separate worlds.
p. 252.9

approach = technique (way of doing something)

Definitions:

(1) (approach as in: approached the city)
to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)
(2) (approach as in: use the best approach)
a way of doing something; or a route that leads to a particular place
(3) (approach as in: approached her with the proposal)
to begin communication with someone about something -- often a proposal or a delicate topic
(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.