How to Use accost in a Sentence

accost

verb

• He was accosted by three gang members on the subway.
• She was so famous that people would accost her on the street and ask for an autograph.
• Boone smirks when fans accost him for just That One Thing.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
• No one accosted us, though strangers loved to talk about the car.
  — Lauren Oster, Redbook, 26 June 2018
• An old man lurks in the woods, accosting people to ... pull their pants down.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 2 Dec. 2019
• No child should be walking down the hall or in a locker room and be accosted with a noose around their neck.
  — Essence.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• But outside the plant the white strikers accosted Rouse and threatened him.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 14 Apr. 2023
• After Booth fired the fatal shot, Rathbone tried to accost him.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2022
• Brown had to confront angry critics as well, some of whom accosted him on the street.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2018
• The deputy was charged with one count of accosting a child for immoral purposes.
  — Ben Brasch, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2023
• Reggie accosts Sweet Pa and a fight almost breaks out between the football team and the Serpents.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 May 2018
• On the third night the truck appears, Ally accosts a person in a hazmat suit spraying her lawn.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Sep. 2017
• The two hopped over the fare turnstiles and ran up the east stairwell, where Webb was chased and accosted by four people who punched and kicked him, police said.
  — Deanese Williams-Harris, chicagotribune.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• He gets accosted by a gang of tough tweens in a post apocalyptic hellscape.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 18 Jan. 2018
• Donham, who died in April, accused Black teenager Till of whistling at her and accosting her in 1955.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 June 2023
• Kaiser said that some base workers have been accosted while in uniform.
  — Author: Colleen Shalby, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2020
• The masked gunmen, dressed all in black, accosted the workers in a hallway and forced them into a room at gunpoint, the police said.
  — New York Times, 8 Mar. 2020
• In the first incident, the student described the man who accosted her as in his early 30s with dirty blond hair and a goatee.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2019
• Sirens of ambulances and fire trucks wailed as the police chased and accosted the protesters.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2019
• Drivers for top teams like Red Bull and Mercedes are accosted by media and fans.
  — David Hill, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2024
• During the months those episodes aired, the couple were accosted by locals with strong opinions.
  — New York Times, 5 July 2019
• Biden isn’t the only candidate to have been accosted at a campaign event.
  — Alexandra Jaffe, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• The movie opens in a bar, where Butler’s Benny sits, minding his own business, until two thugs accost him.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 21 June 2024
• Twice they were accosted by the curious predators, which attacked the boat's hull.
  — Leah Silverman, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2017
• The teenager was accosted over his Georgetown jacket and shot in the neck while walking to class at a Baltimore school.
  — NBC News, 26 Nov. 2019
• During the speech the Prime Minister was accosted by a heckler, who approached her lectern to hand her a P45 — the British equivalent of a pink slip.
  — Dan Stewart, Time, 4 Oct. 2017
• In 1921, a white woman accused a Black man of accosting her, and white rioters wanted the man released to them.
  — Sabrina Leboeuf, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2023
• The last thing any Twitter user wants is to be accosted by one’s followers.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2018
• There, on the outskirts of the famous rotunda, Bailey accosted and started haranguing me about [the New York law Trump was found liable for violating].
  — Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 25 July 2024
• Some women have been accosted or berated by other conservative women for failing to do so.
  — Emily Dyer, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2014

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024