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approach as in: approached the city
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Winter is approaching.
approaching = getting nearer
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I grow more nervous as the test approaches.
approaches = gets nearer
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The officer approaches the driver's door and taps the window.
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approaches = goes to
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Sadie approached him warily, but he smiled at her, and a few minutes later they were talking and laughing.
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approached = moved nearer
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She ducked lower as he approached, suddenly worried that the tip of her boat was visible.
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approached = got near
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The kerosene had not yet approached a dangerously low level, but it was best to keep its usage to a minimum.
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approached = come near
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Then one day, when she had almost given up hope, she found an injured bird in the garden that she did not think would fly again, but the next morning when she approached it, the bird lifted into the sky.
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approached = moved toward
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The air is less hot, signifying evening's approach.
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Then a CIA agent called Raymond Davis shot and killed two men in Lahore who had approached his car on a motorbike.
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approached = got near
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Orly quickly sat down again, and Chet approached the mayor.
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approached = went to
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Most days I worshiped Baba with an intensity approaching the religious.
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Now and then a mall worker would try to approach him with a tidbit.
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approach = get near
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As we approached the house, I could hear someone crying inside.
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approached = got near
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With a Herculean effort, I managed to put her out of my mind by forcing myself to focus on the approaching battle.
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And then, at last, as he crept around yet another bend, he saw a solid wall ahead on which two entwined serpents were carved, their eyes set with great, glinting emeralds. Harry approached, his throat very dry.
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approached = moved nearer
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From across the lake he could see the approaching dust cloud.
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Have you seen these teens? Do not approach. Considered extremely dangerous.
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approach = go near
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At dusk, we approached a bend where hand-painted signs advertising auto repairs and coal deliveries had been nailed to trees along the roadside.
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approached = got near
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Walking past the moose bones, I approach the vehicle and step through an emergency exit at the back.
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approach = come near
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It was now approaching mid-August, and the kill-all policy loomed.
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approaching = getting near
- Jonas felt more and more certain that the destination lay ahead of him, very near now in the night that was approaching. (source)
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They waited in silence, and after a minute the hadrosaur approached the branch again, jaws moving in anticipation.
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approached = moved toward
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After a few blocks we approached the Esso station on the corner of West Market and Park Street, generally recognized as a catchall place for men with too much time on their hands.
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approached = got near
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In the east the sky was smoky gray, and I was glad for the approaching dawn.
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approaching = coming
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The alchemist had become much more cautious, because they were approaching the area where the most violent battles were being waged.
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approaching = getting near
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"Wait up!" shouted the approaching figure, his unmistakable bald head glinting under the streetlights.
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approaching = getting nearer
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Turtle approached the frightened thief.
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approached = moved toward
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Other soldiers approached his table at mess and asked permission to sit down.
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approached = went to
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On the front porch Mr. Morrison sat singing soft and low into the long night, chanting to the approaching thunder.
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And saw, as he approached, that there were other, smaller markers all around it.
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For less than four years later, after another careful accounting of the twice-tolling clock's twelve chimes, Alexander Ilyich Rostov would be climbing to the roof of the Metropol Hotel in his finest jacket and gamely approaching its parapet in order to throw himself into the street below.
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approaching = moving toward
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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.
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He approaches two men, one older than the other, busily engaged in bricklaying, and squats down beside a pile of bricks awaiting placement.
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As the men approached, he could see that they were armed with guns and machetes.
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approached = got nearer
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The boys approached another group of kids toward the dead end on Wes's block and asked them if they wanted to play.
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approached = went to
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Eric approaches me with the needle and syringe in hand.
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approaches = comes toward
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Now we call it Shiva, Krishna, Shakti, Ganesha; we can approach it with some understanding; we can discern certain attributes—loving, merciful, frightening—and we feel the gentle pull of relationship.
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approach = get near (figuratively, get near understanding)
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The girls had approached them while they were playing outside and asked where they could find flowers.
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approached = gone to
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He approached one of the doors and pushed it open.
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As the evening approached, I don't know who grew more nervous about it, Will or me.
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And you think that date is approaching?
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He approached Newt and Alby, who both knelt beside the girl.
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approached = went toward
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By the time noon approached the tributary was gradually growing smaller.
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approached = got near
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As we were approaching the Fort Pitt Tunnel, Sam asked Patrick to pull to the side of the road.
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They approach the gate of the largest house in the colony, a house he has seen a thousand times but never so close.
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By the time the light outside grew gray with the approaching dawn, Klaus had found out all he needed to know.
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As Jack walked away, a woman approached Venkat's table.
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approached = went to
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When Peter turned and saw Cole approaching, he turned away.
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approaching = coming near
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It was approaching dinnertime, and as the oldest child left in the house, cooking duties fell on me.
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- What were these three strange things approaching? (source)
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As she approached, it burbled, as if anticipating her arrival.
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approached = got near
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Woodenly, she approached the closest policeman.
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When we slowed to a walk at the edge of the schoolyard, Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him, I was not to approach him with requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men, to embarrass him with references to his private life, or tag along behind him at recess and noon.
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approach = come near
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Celia backs away, as if she's afraid to approach Hilly where she'd seemed so powerful a few minutes ago.
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Others, the Quackenbushes of this world, could calmly watch the war approach them and jump into it at the last and most advantageous instant, as though buying into the stock market.
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He stepped off the porch and began to approach her, walking easily, then suddenly stopped cold as she emerged from the car.
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And so no one had seen the approach of the five court messengers until they had come round the bend, a few paces from the edge of the crowd.
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approach = coming near
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He took off his hat as I approached him.
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As I approach the third-floor door, I tear the ID tag off my necklace and pause long enough to swipe it against the door's reader.
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approach = get near
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As I approached Mother's house, I looked up towards the sun, wondering if I would ever see it again.
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approached = got near
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Fires roared around him, stoked by the winds, and the temperature was approaching the heat of an oven.
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A police officer approached the cell.
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- She entered the church in a row of girls all dressed in white and approached the altar, which was covered with white candles and flowers, illuminated by a heavenly white light streaming through the stained-glass window of the white church. (source)
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Now they approached the darker smudge that had been the signal fire, yawning, rubbing their eyes, treading with practiced feet.
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approached = went near
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From without the house there was an approaching sound of stamping feet and murmuring voices, gathering volume in the roadway outside.
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As we approach the Thanksgiving season and start to collect canned goods for the poor (as if they are not hungry for the other eleven months of the year), we should all look around, and instead of complaining like we usually do, sit down, and truly give thanks for the blessings that we have been given.
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"Jack-y," my grandmother said as she approached my parents on the front porch, "we need some stiff drinks!"
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He saw the bulldozer drivers' union representative approaching and let his head sink back and closed his eyes.
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approaching = coming
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Montag approached from the rear, creeping through a thick night-moistened scent of daffodils and roses and wet grass.
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approached = came near
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PROCTOR, familiarly, with warmth, although he knows he is approaching the edge of Giles' tolerance with this: Is it the Devil's fault that a man cannot say you good morning without you clap him for defamation?
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It still makes me shiver to think of the dull, distant drone that signified the approaching destruction.
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The VOR is a beacon that sends out a signal that allows pilots to calculate their altitude as they approach an airport.
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approach = get near
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I observed migrants' anxiety as they approached the checkpoint on two train rides through La Arrocera.
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approached = got near
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"It is approaching a blizzard," Dad says, pointing to a single snowflake floating its way to the earth.
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approaching = getting near
- Farms signaled their approach to Therinsford. (source)
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He did not look up when Lieutenant Jimmy Cross approached.
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approached = went near
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It was best not to approach, to not draw attention to themselves.
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approach = go near
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When Nan noticed that his eyes had opened, she quietly approached so as not to wake their daughter and kissed him.
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approached = moved nearer
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We left the cemetery as night approached.
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approached = got near
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I lay still, listening, shaking a little, wondering whether the approaching horsemen had seen me.
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When I approached the gate, the same gate where I entered the party; guess who was standing there all by himself.
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approached = got near
- Agitation grew as the hour approached at which the train was supposed to come. (source)
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I did not want to call out. I approached her quietly from behind.
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approached = went to
- I approached Billy, but before I could open my mouth, he asked, "Want to see something?" (source)
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He talked about using palliative chemo—treatment that's not intended to be curative, but could ease symptoms, possibly buying a few months—and about finding ways to keep me comfortable and engaged in life as the end approached.
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Oh, no. Each day since they saw the road's approach they have been stuffing the roadbuilders with goat meat, millet mush, baked yam and cassava, cola nuts and palm wine.
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He fell silent as they approached a group of Japanese tourists listening intently to their guide, who was standing beneath a bright yellow umbrella.
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In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill.
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But the summer air was warm and alive with birds as the day approached.
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And now he was crouched in a dark hallway, crouched on a blue rug with a riot of twisting black shapes woven into its pile, listening to the booming noises approach, and now a Shape turned the corner and began to come toward him, lurching, smelling of blood and doom.
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It was getting dark when they saw four men in the distance, approaching along the beach.
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Finally, as dawn approached, our fuel was nearly gone.
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- As the conference approached, Deborah was calm, but I wasn't. (source)
- It raised its head as they approached and yowled. (source)
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If a couple of those Taliban came around that corner to my left, the only way to approach me, and they had any form of light, I'd be like a jackrabbit caught in someone's headlights.
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approach = get near
- As these beleaguered adults approach, the uniformed sons and daughters whose pursuit of soccer has inspired their expeditions are nowhere to be seen. (source)
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As midnight approached on the night of April 14, Lewis Powell was in trouble.
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approached = got near
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She had to wait for almost half an hour before an old woman with a cane approached from the direction of Djurgarden.
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approached = came near
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Jackrabbits bolted from shady thickets at the approach of the truck and bounded away into the rolling hills spotted with dark juniper trees.
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A big white swan full of little children approached my bench, then turned around a bosky islet covered with ducks and paddled back under the dark arch of the bridge.
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approach as in: use the best approach
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Perhaps I just need to work harder, but I may need an entirely different approach to the problem.
approach = method (way of doing something)
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The approach to the cabin was covered with snow.
approach = path (that leads to a particular place)
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We need to approach this problem in a new way.
approach = do (something in a particular way)
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I'd learned by then that a direct approach, 'By God, you better not try a stunt like that again!', didn't work with Chris.
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approach = technique (way of doing something)
- Maybe the best approach is to get him talking. (source)
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They stalled their ship while turning from base leg onto landing approach.
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approach = route (way to get somewhere)
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He tried another approach.
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I wanted to warn him. "Phoebe and I saw her slashing and hacking away at the bushes in her backyard."
"Is there something wrong with that?" he asked.
I tried another approach. "Her voice is like dead leaves blowing around, and her hair is spooky." (source)approach = way of doing something
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If that had been a good army, C toon, your approach was so slow they would have had you from the flanks before you got into good position.
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The remaining peasants, who viewed newly introduced approaches to agriculture with resentment and suspicion, proved antagonistic to even the smallest efforts at innovation.
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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.
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- A fish jumping out of water was confronted by a famished boy with a hands-on, no-holds-barred approach to capturing it. (source)
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I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly understood.
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The next time you find yourself with a woman, look in your heart and see if you cannot approach sex as a mystical, spiritual act.
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approach = begin to understand
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Trying a new approach, he grabbed Alby's arms again and started dragging him along the ground.
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The final approach began with a huge climb.
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But there's a better approach.
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"I'm trying a new approach," he said.
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Snape, meanwhile, seemed to have decided to act as though Harry were invisible. ... In fact, compared to what he usually had to endure from Snape in the way of taunts and snide remarks, he found the new approach something of an improvement, and was pleased to find that when left well alone, he was able to concoct an Invigoration Draught quite easily.
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Before a heat, we sit and watch the waves coming into shore, and then we discuss my best approach.
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- Mrs. Brocklebank—whose daughter, Heather, is in my Grade 12 English class— took a slightly different approach to her lawn; I found her ripping her dandelions out by their roots. (source)
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He walked quietly to the door which commanded the approach to the church compound, and stood there.
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That week I took a different approach. I did everything I could to conserve my energy, to save every ounce of strength for the game.
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Unable to choose between the two approaches, I decided to try both.
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approaches = ways of doing something
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It took me some time to get used to this more peaceful approach, but once I did, I actually liked it.
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- Here was an approach that had quite simply not occurred to him. (source)
- Unsure, I opted for Dad's approach and said nothing. (source)
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V. "WELL, HELLO THERE, GREETINGS," said Dave the psychiatrist as he closed the door and took a seat across from me in his office: kilim rugs, shelves filled with old textbooks (Drugs and Society; Child Psychology: A Different Approach); and beige draperies that parted with a hum when you pushed a button.
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As the plane came in on its final approach, the pilots encountered severe wind shear.
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You tried the diplomatic approach.
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When I think about my essay today, what I do is go over it in some detail: I may think of a completely new approach I could have taken, or about different writers and books I could have focused on.
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Until now, their approach had been covert; they'd traveled only over the desert's black squares of tar and volcanic rock to camouflage themselves from Redd's lookouts.
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How does this change our approach to the new simulation serum?
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- She may diplomatically tell them some of the things that made me exasperating; my overly analytical approach to life, my insistence (too often) that I know best. (source)
- One year, this gentleman decided he could sell more of his delicious beverage using what you might call the Hooters approach to marketing. (source)
- That was my approach to most things the past few months. (source)
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Everyone was thinking in terms of towers, but Burnham, for one, did not think a tower was the best approach.
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On Friday he tried a more direct approach.
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- The preacher was a widower, and his wife had come from the same country as Saeed, and so the preacher knew some of Saeed's language, and his approach to religion was partly familiar to Saeed, while at the same time partly novel, too. (source)
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Wallace had made up his mind before the game that he would take a different approach.
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We were on our final approach to the enormous U.S. base at Bagram.
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When she had registered with the Immigration and Naturalization Service upon filing her green card application, Luma had been fingerprinted; her fingers were placed on an ink pad and carefully rolled over the card beneath. The woman at the Walton County jail had a different approach; she grabbed Luma's hand, inked her fingertips, and then slammed her hand down on the counter.
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When he began, he was prepared to subject his patience to a crucial test, at least until he had proof that he was wasting his time with the only new approach he could think of.
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He was not going to find anything that his professional predecessor and his experienced team had missed, and he was undecided what approach he should adopt to the problem.
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On the other hand, at some schools you'd be surrounded by girls who would be throwing themselves at you—I was surprised at how effective an approach that was with certain recruits, but I guess I shouldn't have been all that surprised.
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- And like all science, the best approach is to learn by sleuthing. (source)
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Lord, I do admire their direct approach.
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- If the rap sessions failed to provide adequate information, the stroking was abandoned for a more direct approach. (source)
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THOMAS STONE TOOK a different approach; he focused on the problem of the shortage of organs and pursued a solution that most others considered a dead end: removing part of a liver from a living healthy parent and giving that to a child whose liver was failing.
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approach = way of doing something
- As you can see, the Foreland Exotic Opportunities Savings Plan represents an entirely new approach to investment. (source)
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Of course, Dick was very literal-minded, very— he had no understanding of music, poetry-and yet when you got right down toot, Dick's literalness, his pragmatic approach to every subject, was the primary reason Perry had been attracted to him, for it made Dick seem, compared to himself, so authentically tough, invulnerable, "totally masculine."
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- He continued speaking directly to the dead woman, and I half wished she would rise up and answer him, offended by the coarseness of his approach. (source)
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"Dr. Hammond," my mom said, and this time, Whitney rolled her eyes at his name, "says that this woman, Moira Bell, has had great success with many of his patients because she takes a different approach."
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Why can't we take a more positive approach?
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- As he whipped through the town, it occurred to Ignatius that a more direct approach would be called for. (source)
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He has a very different approach to …. governing.
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- The old man took a different approach. (source)
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Tipping back her glass, Lee decided to try a more direct approach.
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As the pilot entered his final approach the flight officer acknowledged their clearance to the tower, then switched to his prescribed sterile frequency and sent a last message in French to an off limits communications room.
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Maybe if I hit some code-breaking sites I could figure out a different approach for how to find our parents.
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The direct approach might work.
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After a minute, he came up with a new approach: "Hey, what if we hung a string down from a floating thing."
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In faith father and son were at one; the difference between them was only in approach; the evangelical flash did not appear in my father's eye; his virtue was more legalistic.
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We have had different approaches to agriculture, to monetary union, to defence.
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Mattie, more inclined to the direct approach, was throwing rocks the size of potatoes.
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Eragon admired the elf's courage, but he wondered whether insulting Glaedr was really the best approach.
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- Corrine most likely saw that she wasn't going to get anywhere with her line of questioning, so she tried a different approach. (source)
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But Lamar, the learned scholar and professor, approached the issue somewhat differently than his colleagues.
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approached = handled (did something in a particular manner)
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I don't know that she'll quite understand his passionate approach to life like I'm starting to.†
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- They had a decidedly anti-middle class approach to life and could refer to the police or their landladies as philistines, for example, or simply as the enemy.† (source)
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And I tell you my frame of mind that night so you can know there are profound differences between vampires, and how I came to take a different approach from Lestat.†
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approach = way of doing something
- The best approach was to throw myself immediately on her mercy.† (source)
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Bernie Krisher of American Assistance for Cambodia tried another approach.†
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approach = a way of doing something
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Roscoe decided the best approach was to pretend a dream was happening, though he knew quite well it wasn't.†
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- Meanwhile, Alain the painter sank into greater and greater detail about his new approach to painting.† (source)
- A very different approach.† (source)
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For the first time, he was on his own with his studies, and he bent to them with the spirit of independence and intense determination that were to characterize much of his whole approach to life.†
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What is our best approach?†
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- The best approach was by the Trapani road, but the colonel had been wary.† (source)
- Rachel Levy, head of the center's publicity department, thought blandness and a trace of obfuscation would be the best approach, but Hannah overruled her.† (source)
- What is police work, some may inquire, but a new approach to old-fashioned caritas—the heart's concern with, not simply some part of the cosmic bog, but the whole?† (source)
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But in matters of vital importance — meaning, in effect, war and police espionage — the empirical approach is still encouraged, or at least tolerated.
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The approaches to the monorail station were black with the ant-like pullulation of lower-caste activity.
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Had I approached my discovery in a more noble spirit, had I risked the experiment while under the empire of generous or pious aspirations, all must have been otherwise, and from these agonies of death and birth, I had come forth an angel instead of a fiend.
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I was thinking how I had best approach him (I did not want to be flung off again) when he gave a little laugh.
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Mrs. Bird cast a glance at a camphor-bottle, which stood in the half-open closet, and appeared to meditate an approach to it, but her husband interposed.
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approach = route (way to get somewhere)
- We have never been there above once since the new approach was made; but still I have no doubt that James will take you very safely. (source)
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He was about to retool and try a different approach when his phone rang.
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- I'm not sure what our current approach is. (source)
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I approached my treatment like I approach so many things, as a scientist.
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We try very hard to be culturally diverse in our approach.
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- Morrie's approach was exactly the opposite. (source)
- Strong, Midwestern woman that she is, Sonja took a practical approach to the news. (source)
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Skeletons of card soldiers and chessmen littered the dusty hall approaching the South Dining Room.
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approaching = leading to
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When he saw the first light of dawn on the horizon, he attempted an indirect approach.
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- Following the crowd is not a winning approach to life. (source)
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If I had any illusions about keeping up with him, I was going to have to figure out a new approach.
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Rather than waste any more time, Mr. Eaton, I thought I would take the most logical approach.
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- Time would tell whether her approach produced results. (source)
- Luma's approach did not sit well with all of her players' parents. (source)
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They approached her about becoming a member of the committee.
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- I approached three bankers about a loan.
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Before, the women who worked for my mother had always approached her casually, with matter-of-fact questions about their work.
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Once the persecution began, his work slowly dried up. ... He approached an old faithful named Herbert Bollinger—a man with a hemispheric waistline who spoke Hochdeutsch (he was from Hamburg)—when he saw him on Munich Street. At first, the man looked down, past his girth, to the ground, but when his eyes returned to the painter, the question clearly made him uncomfortable.
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However, please be aware that if you choose not to accept our proposal, we intend to approach each of your competitors. At the very least, we hope you'll do us the honor of being the first to hear our generous offer.
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One of their neighbors was the director of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, and Walt approached this man, an army general, for advice.
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- That was the date of a now famous meeting, in which Robert Swanson, a venture capitalist, approached Herbert Boyer, a biochemist at the University of California. (source)
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A favor could be called in by Andrey, a swap negotiated by Emile, and Audrius approached by the Count. Thus, the twelfth, thirteenth, and fourteenth ingredients.
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Almost all he can do is watch, in particular the SS guarding them, and he tries to work out who can be approached and who must be avoided. He starts to talk occasionally to one of them.
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"It must be because you're so approachable," I say flatly. "You know. Like a bed of nails."
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Eighty-one days after being approached by two young girls about where flowers might be found, George Stinney was pronounced dead.
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Then he was approached with an extraordinary proposition.
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This Keeper seemed a lot more approachable.
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Why haven't they approached us?
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While he tried to decide on the best way to approach his request, the goblin broke the silence.
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We approach a great man through his servants.
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Kaylee wasn't the only person who approached me that day.
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Any way he approached the question, he couldn't see the logic in prohibiting calls.
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In many families, she had learned, one dress such as these would be handed down through three generations as a cherished possession. Surely in Hartford, or perhaps even here in Wethersfield, she would find willing buyers, even though she had not yet worked out a plan for approaching them.
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Pim gave me a rough idea of how to approach Dussel, but cautioned me to wait until the next day, since I was in such a flap.
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"Well," said Eragon, wondering how best to approach the subject, "I keep hearing about the Dragon Riders and their supposed accomplishments."
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Somehow, the way she had approached him had skirted his resistance to her love.
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That I am not sure how to approach the next part of the story.
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It was the boy, the one with the old man who had tried to approach Baba jan at the school's opening ceremony.
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That person was too busy for them to approach.
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She decided to make her approach. Standing in front of Saeed's father she proceeded to talk animatedly with a friend while ignoring the object of her desire. He noticed her. He listened to her. He summoned the nerve to speak to her.
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Had Moore known this before Golde patented them, he could have approached the companies directly and worked out a deal to sell the cells himself.
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Though he had not shown up at the second tryouts or at either of two subsequent practices, Fornatee thought that scrimmage day was the right time to make his approach to Coach Luma, to ask to get reinstated to the team.
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Some ideas were more general topics that you could think about and figure out how to approach, like teenage depression.
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She approached the question gingerly, wary of what an admission like that would mean.
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Then maybe we can figure out how to approach Desjardins, to convince him we have to cooperate.
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Vanessa was friendly if approached but more reserved than her reputation and appearance would suggest.
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I was worried about him, but I wasn't really sure how to approach the subject.
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Certainly not by me, nor has John approached my father (my mother has informed me in the strictest of confidences) with any discussion of dowry.
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I wish I could apologize but … I don't know how to approach them.
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- Nor had he known how to approach her. (source)
- We don't know how to approach you. We can't speak your language. (source)
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He knew instinctively how to approach, how to touch, how to confuse and distract, so that, fearful or not, the dog found itself acquiescing.†
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approach = begin communication with someone about something
- First I carried the germ around for a while, mulling over how best to approach it, then I sat down and knocked a few items onto the screen, then I began fleshing out the argument.† (source)
- She used the knocker shaped like a trinity knot, considered how best to approach her cousin.† (source)
- In the poorest house Sam, the unlucky one, considered how best to approach the new vicar for a loan.† (source)
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For she understood, as she insinuated, that the real cavalier here was Hans Castorp and that young Ziemssen was merely his assistant; but since she was also well aware of Hans Castorp's partiality for Frau Chauchat, she assumed he was chaperoning poor little Karstedt as a substitute for a woman he evidently did not know how to approach.
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He gave his friend a few seconds to recover his composure, and then approached the question he had come to put.
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Remembering Withers's revelation about the Navajo, Shefford scarcely knew how to approach him now.
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But this time he had specially urgent business, and he foresaw how difficult it would be to approach the subject, yet he was in great haste.
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- After that, with an irrepressible smile of tenderness, Kitty recalled her husband's shamefaced embarrassment, his repeated awkward efforts to approach the subject, and how at last, having thought of the one means of helping Dolly without wounding her pride, he had suggested to Kitty—what had not occurred to her before—that she should give up her share of the property. (source)
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The thought occurred to Hester, that the child might really be seeking to approach her with childlike confidence, and doing what she could, and as intelligently as she knew how, to establish a meeting-point of sympathy.
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Fred secretly felt that his future was guaranteed against the fulfilment of Mary's sarcastic prophecies, apart from that "anything" which he was ready to do if she would define it He never dared in Mary's presence to approach the subject of his expectations from Mr. Featherstone, and she always ignored them, as if everything depended on himself.
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Having thought of the matter with care, I approached my subject as if I had never hinted at it before.
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She might have disdained him in all the dignity of angry virtue, in the grounds of Sotherton, or the theatre at Mansfield Park; but he approached her now with rights that demanded different treatment. ... she must have a strong feeling of gratitude.
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I just hoped that Aech, Art3mis, and any other gunters they approached felt the same way.
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That I happen to live there is why the Teacher approached me in the first place.
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He walks up and down the platform, approaching every disembarking woman.
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But Hammond had approached Wu with a directness Wu never forgot.
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So, with slow care rather than stealth, we must approach the subject of a certain woman.
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But He made them for His messengers so that we could approach Him through them.
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But later, when he was approached by Lewis Dodgson at Biosyn, Nedry was ready to listen.
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The Count had not much cause to interact with children, but he had been raised well enough to know that a child should not idly approach a stranger, should not interrupt him in the middle of a meal, and certainly should not ask him questions about his personal appearance.
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Teabing had approached the BBC with a proposal for a historical documentary in which he would expose the explosive history of the Holy Grail to a mainstream television audience.
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But it was during those frantic days of the mid-1980s that he was approached by the InGen corporation with a request for consulting services.
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One had to know how to approach Wesley, and how to keep the wrong influences away from him, and how to get Mr. Thompson interested without letting him know too much, and how to cut Chick Morrison in on it, but keep Tinky Holloway out, and how to get the right people to give a few parties for Wesley at the right time, and ….
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I couldn't approach the subject again, for months.
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Mr. Riach, perhaps from caution, would never suffer me to say another word about my story; the captain, whom I tried to approach, rebuffed me like a dog and would not hear a word; and as the days came and went, my heart sank lower and lower, till I was even glad of the work which kept me from thinking.
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But for the reluctance I had to betray the confidence of Agnes, but for my uncertainty how to approach the subject with no risk of doing so, it would have reached them before he said, 'God bless you, Daisy, and good night!'
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But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is alone with her, so Rostov, now that he had attained what he had longed for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach the Emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so.
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To this end, she approached the question with divers laudatory and appropriate remarks touching the general amiability of Mr Frank Cheeryble.
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- On my reverting to some other topic that we had been discussing, he recovered immediately; but, though I tried him again and again, I never approached the question of the school, even if he were in the middle of a laugh, without observing that his countenance fell, and that he became uncomfortable. (source)
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As the question had no bearing, near or remote, on any foregone or subsequent transaction, I consider it to have been thrown out, like her previous approaches, in general conversational condescension.
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The young ladies who approached her at first with some respect, in consideration of her coming from a baronet's family, were soon offended by what they termed "airs"; for, as she neither played on the pianoforte nor wore fine pelisses, they could, on farther observation, admit no right of superiority.
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While trying to keep herself alive, their visitor, who had at first approached her with as animated a countenance as ever, was wisely and kindly keeping his eyes away, and giving her time to recover, while he devoted himself entirely to her mother, addressing her, and attending to her with the utmost politeness and propriety, at the same time with a degree of friendliness, of interest at least, which was making his manner perfect.
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It was always best to approach him formally.†
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- And accordingly, Clyde was sent for, and being carefully coached beforehand by Ratterer as to how to approach his new superior, and what to say, he was given the place.† (source)
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I approached my host with a cordial, winning word: 'So, you ask me the name I'm known by, Cyclops? ... Nobody—that's my name.'
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Miss Gordon says she believed her brother dead until last March, when the head of the psychology department at Beekman University approached her for permission to use Charlie in an experiment.
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For one thing he mightn't what you call jump at the idea, if approached, and what mostly worried him was he didn't know how to lead up to it or word it exactly,
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A week had gone by since she had first approached him.
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- In the evening there's a lingering sunset, receding westward as he approaches, wilting from pink to violet.† (source)
- From one of the small doorways, a dog's head and shoulders emerged— Essay, watching him approach, half in and half out.† (source)
- One of the challenges with pain—physical or psychic— is that we can really only approach it through metaphor.† (source)
- My mother's approach to learning English consisted of daily lessons with Monty Hall and Bob Barker.† (source)
- It's a numerical approach that uses quantity to derive quality.† (source)
- As I approached, the strong smell of scorched wood and plastic forced me to pull my bandana over my nose.† (source)
- He is startled by the approach of Oberscharfuhrer Houstek, accompanied by a young SS officer.† (source)
- Sam pointed to an old man in a beret approaching on a bicycle, one leg stretched out almost straight as he pedaled.† (source)
- Dave Sanders, a teacher, stood in a hallway as the gunmen approached, blocking oncoming students and urging them to run the other way to safety.† (source)
- But she let me approach-twenty feet, ten feet.† (source)
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- Wes wanted to know more and, never shy, he approached the boys.† (source)
- An armed man approached her and told her to walk toward the southern goalpost.† (source)
- He was known to stroll past the coffeehouse from time to time, but Mother kept me busy when he approached.† (source)
- Well, I'll remind you of that as your someday approaches.† (source)
- She and Mom chat a bit before a man wearing jeans and a Cincinnati Bengals sweatshirt approaches us.† (source)
- Harry, Ron, and Hermione, however, approached the fence cautiously.† (source)
- They approached slowly up the drive.† (source)
- Volkheimer approaches; his big solicitous face presses close.† (source)
- At Bod's approach they looked up, startled, then fled into the undergrowth, as if they had been caught conspiring.† (source)
- She always approached each new person and each new experience the exact same way.† (source)
- "Dr. Beck," Vogel said, "we have passed closest approach point and you are now getting further away.† (source)
- He showed no sign he'd even noticed the Gladers approach.† (source)
- As Joe spoke, a policeman and a policewoman approached and stood awkwardly by the side of the piano.† (source)
- So of all islanders—of all ancestries—the Review would seek as calm an approach as possible in this emergency.† (source)
- Mai and Dell have different approaches to everything in life.† (source)
- They approached the TomorrowTown building, fronted by a wall of ironwork that looked vaguely Turkish.† (source)
- As we approached the lowest point in the grove, the trees began to look scorched; they smelled like smoke and rubber.† (source)
- And when the next train came I wasn't so scared anymore because the sign said TRAIN APPROACHING so I knew it was going to happen.† (source)
- This sort of silliness went on until we rounded a mesa and saw the brown mist on the horizon that announced our approach to the city of Phoenix.† (source)
- "Mr. G.," I say, approaching his desk, "I have something to show you!"† (source)
- It was getting cold as the sun approached the horizon, but I went around the tractor and climbed gingerly over the disk.† (source)
- As my mom reached the ornate fountain that marks the entryway into our Princeville community, they heard the wail of sirens approaching.† (source)
- Jordan McAfee approached her, holding a box of Kleenex.† (source)
- When Ethel approached, you feared a landslide of plates might fall in your lap—but this never happened.† (source)
- Violet said, and as she approached him, there was something about his wheezy voice that seemed vaguely familiar.† (source)
- I think sometimes I can appease the mailman; I see his jeep approaching from a mile away and I say a quick series of prayers, the way I do when a promising cloud appears on the low horizon.† (source)
- The following day, Celaena approached the glass throne, casting a wary glance about the council chamber.† (source)
- He hears me approaching and spins around to face me.† (source)
- I didn't exactly have a watertight cover story, and I raced to think of one as we approached the Priest Hole.† (source)
- He would have spurred the pony faster, but his father made them dismount beside the bridge and approach on foot.† (source)
- The final chapter ....Chinita Macri approached him from behind and hoisted her camera onto her shoulder.† (source)
- The Danes had destroyed their own naval fleet, blowing up the vessels one by one, as the Germans approached to take over the ships for their own use.† (source)
- The only ones who seemed bothered were those forced to move when the canoe approached them.† (source)
- Time moves slowly when you're waiting for something good, so naturally the days fly by as the dreaded ball approaches.† (source)
- I came back to the park and approached a man who was observing the game.† (source)
- And now, as they approached the end of the corridor, they overheard Jackson and Jillson talking in an empty classroom.† (source)
- Offstage right, people are heard approaching.† (source)
- The wounded space guys approached the lunchroom loudspeakers and called for their evil zombie nerds.† (source)
- It would make a difficult approach and landing, but the ship was small and maneuverable as a tiger shark.† (source)
- One of them spots us and approaches, a younger official following close behind him.† (source)
- Outside, I could hear the sounds of Mother and the boys approaching the car.† (source)
- She planned to plant a clump of ceanothus along the approach to the swimming pool.† (source)
- The pat approached violence.† (source)
- After they had enough money to work with, Rameck, George, and Sampson approached several elementary schools in Newark to try to arrange student field trips to the campus.† (source)
- And sometimes, when she was feeling strong, she would approach strangers and ask, "Do you know my mother and father?† (source)
- John approached her with a huge bouquet of flowers.† (source)
- Not a soul could be seen on the street, and the theater seemed like a dark cave that waited to swallow anyone who dared approach.† (source)
- "Don't talk to anyone and don't approach him again," Len warned.† (source)
- Approaching her desk, Cinder swung her leg up and started unloading the stashed tools from her calf.† (source)
- Distant cake-crumbled voices and approaching Blue Army footsteps caused the Comrades to seal the secret.† (source)
- As Ben's hand approaches with the scalpel, it becomes rock steady.† (source)
- The body lay reassuringly still as he approached it, and continued to lie reassuringly still as he reached it and put his foot down on the Kill-O-Zap gun that still dangled from its limp fingers.† (source)
- Kriss pulled me over to a table, and a maid approached us immediately, setting tea, milk, and sugar in front of us.† (source)
- The train approached the bridge.† (source)
- The smile widened when we approached.† (source)
- Once a scent had been acquired, the predator would attempt a slow silent approach, before the lightning strike.† (source)
- Whenever they approached a town, a rumor would sweep through their ranks that the Germans were already there.† (source)
- SCORPIUS points ALBUS in the right direction, and now he can see the TROLLEY WITCH, who approaches nonchalantly, pushing her trolley.† (source)
- Boris, who'd had his arm around my shoulder, had unhanded me when she'd approached as if a code had been spoken.† (source)
- "Normally that approach into Guam is not difficult," Brenner began.† (source)
- He approaches a house and speaks softly, his head slightly bowed.† (source)
- The motor is getting louder now, approaching.† (source)
- Then, on the drive home, as Gramps and I were approaching the California-Oregon border, I just had this sudden flash—a vision of me lugging a cello through New York City.† (source)
- Although he had hit the last rabbit he shot at, he felt lucky, and he approached the brushy area with an arrow already nocked on the string.† (source)
- All seven of them stand as I approach.† (source)
- I think in the end we must have absorbed quite a lot of information, because I remember, around that age, a marked change in the way we approached the whole territory surrounding the donations.† (source)
- We approached the park in a car gone silent except for Marybeth's constant nail drumming on the window.† (source)
- Saphira approached the doors at a measured pace.† (source)
- As we approached the wire, Azar put his hand on my shoulder, guiding me over toward the boulder pile.† (source)
- As I approach, the dog steps out into the road and I think, It's as if he has been waiting for me all my life.† (source)
- The Four Card was growing more desperate as Hatter approached.† (source)
- "So that's where the show's going to take place," whispered Silvertongue as they approached the houses.† (source)
- The one value I had was being the only Mexican in school — people talked about it whenever I approached.† (source)
- A pebbled beach awaited their approach, and behind it a backdrop of rich and dense forest rose up to the base of a mountain, crested by the whiteness of freshly fallen snow.† (source)
- I hurriedly walked near the gutters and took cover when I heard a vehicle approaching.† (source)
- She did not see the women approaching, accumulating slowly in groups of twos and threes from the left.† (source)
- But he lowered his head as she approached and clamped his wooden jaws around her wrist.† (source)
- A Thomas Hawk lazing on midday thermals flaps in panic at my approach.† (source)
- For the first time since approaching me at Rosie's, Tony addresses me eye to eye.† (source)
- But approaching the gate are a few moving specks—silver, when the light catches them.† (source)
- The third night when I walked in, he came charging around the corner, going into his typical high-speed skid as he approached.† (source)
- As I approached, the light-haired one laughed and I caught a glimpse of a proud, fine-featured face.† (source)
- The sound of a train approaching is heard† (source)
- Perhaps it was the Chairman's enthusiasm that helped me to approach my visit there with such goodwill.† (source)
- But such a simple approach did not always apply.† (source)
- Groups of children played in puddles on the street, scattering as the Jeep approached, so as not to be sprayed.† (source)
- They smiled in welcome, but made no move to approach us.† (source)
- As they approach he sees that after a certain expanse the yard falls away, and then he sees the lake, a blue a thousand times deeper, more brilliant, than the sky and girded by pines.† (source)
- As we approached the church I started to shake and sweat, and just before we reached the church doorway, I stepped out of line.† (source)
- "Your wife is approaching clinical shock," a nurse said.† (source)
- It can look that way, however, if we approach the matter from the wrong angle or consider it carelessly.† (source)
- He doesn't see me approach and then is startled to find me next to him.† (source)
- I hoped none of them would be foolish enough to approach without permission from dock authorities.† (source)
- Nicholas Flamel approached the rats warily.† (source)
- Emily was approaching Carrie Jensen's window.† (source)
- At first Burnham tried the oblique approach.† (source)
- Soldiers were approaching along the track, pausing at each car to haul open the heavy sliding door.† (source)
- It would have to circle around, reestablish visual, make another approach, and hover again.† (source)
- Imagine those first Portuguese adventurers approaching the shore, spying on the jungle's edge through their fitted brass lenses.† (source)
- Footsteps approaching the door or only the heartbeat in his ears?† (source)
- We approached the stairs, our feet moving in unison to the rhythm of the marching click-clack sound of the Screaming Eagles.† (source)
- We didn't dare approach him.† (source)
- Friendlies were approaching our position.† (source)
- So he is no longer a "philosophic God" that people can approach with their understanding.† (source)
- And now she slid off the couch and approached him, peering down into his face as he had peered at the child.† (source)
- Slowly Clary approached the edge of it and peered inside.† (source)
- The phone calls have stopped, she hasn't approached us or come to the house.† (source)
- To avoid the appearance of interest, he required all college coaches to approach Michael not through him but through Hugh Freeze.† (source)
- Before the late sixties submarines could barely approach the peaks, much less probe their myriad valleys.† (source)
- But I was deeply touched by my visit to the White House and by this elegant, kindhearted, approachable lady.† (source)
- As they approach, the guys on the deck sit up, take notice, draw revolvers out of their waistbands.† (source)
- The cook approached, her mountainous fat and her braids swaying, and picked up the plate without a word.† (source)
- I took the right-hand side, Mikey center left, guarding both the head-on approach and the flank.† (source)
- Against this backdrop, Luma rose and approached the lectern.† (source)
- To do what we call viability testing, I approached Dr. Michael Colvin, a biochemist in the oncology lab, and he sent me to another biochemist, Dr. John Hilton.† (source)
- I put the halter behind my back and she actually lets me approach her.† (source)
- When I approached her and told her that I was pregnant, she said, "Well, I don't see why you can't be a leader and a mom."† (source)
- At 11:00 P.M., the cavalry patrol approached Bowling Green.† (source)
- Particular patterns of thought get attached to particular movements or activities, and before you know it, it's impossible to approach that movement or activity without dislodging an avalanche of prethought thoughts.† (source)
- It was as if she had a premonition of some approaching disaster.† (source)
- I was about to approach Narciso to tell him I was going home and would warn Ultima, but he stumbled off into the snow and I heard him mumble, "I will go to Andrew!"† (source)
- We remain that way, sliding between certainty and uncertainty and back again until we hear Carla's approach and are forced to part.† (source)
- Just as we approached the house where I was staying Buddy said, "Let's go up to the chemistry lab.† (source)
- Early on I ran over their safety, helping to set the tone for our approach to the rest of the game.† (source)
- The female announcer's voice cuts through the silence: "Air train approaching."† (source)
- =========================== How do we approach the study of Muad'Dib's father?† (source)
- An approaching car beeped and swerved and beeped again, but he hardly noticed.† (source)
- The door to Dale's shop stands ajar, and I hear the clanging of metal on metal as I approach.† (source)
- The officer in charge approached the foreman and said something we couldn't make out, but it sounded like a scolding.† (source)
- And if a strange man approached me during my play and stared down at me and my brother, perhaps asking our names, I don't remember it now.† (source)
- The sound of approaching footsteps tapped in my ears, but whether they were near or far, I couldn't tell.† (source)
- APPROACHING VIVIAN'S HOUSE, MOLLY LOOKS AT HER PHONE.† (source)
- But as he approached the cabinets, his head felt suddenly heavy, like it had been stuffed with wool.† (source)
- When I returned to the dining room, I approached the proprietress to ask for a beer.† (source)
- Sonny, we must approach this enterprise in a scientific manner!† (source)
- They did, and then the train was visible, approaching from the opposite direction, a small dot growing ever larger, its whistle slicing the air.† (source)
- "Far be it from me to even approach untangling that hellhole of a mind," he said, carefully.† (source)
- No one had been near the place for weeks and the approaches to it lay under a smooth blanket of snow; the sled tracks, and the fresh trails that had been left by the deep footsteps of the 104th, stood out boldly.† (source)
- There are other methods as well and I would like to talk about one such approach.† (source)
- The salesman reared off, blew his nose in a great kerchief, then walked slowly across the lawn as if approaching a huge time-bomb that ticked silently there.† (source)
- Mr. Powell looked at the approaching hunter.† (source)
- As you can see, I am applying to the State University for a summer program entitled "New Approaches to the Teaching of Literature for Today's Students."† (source)
- Now they were ready and watched silently over the pilot's shoulder as he circled and made his approach.† (source)
- Snow Began to Fall come dusk lovely tangos wind and flake silent wisps growing bold wicked relentless hinting winter's random temper breath taking dazzling lifting me to heights I'd never approached silver frosted morning white landscape reflecting purple painted sky but as Newton would opine what goes skyward must surely crash.† (source)
- The bartender approaches the player to change records.† (source)
- Instead of investing in a large theme park, the company pursued a more decentralized approach.† (source)
- He never took the holier-than-thou approach as a Christian either.† (source)
- On hearing our approach, they sat down and started bawling treed.† (source)
- And her arrogance produced, out of the smoke and confusion, a heavy, dark man who approached them with raised eyebrows.† (source)
- I can't believe it," Aunt Emily says, shaking her head in greeting as they approach me.† (source)
- Stewart stopped the company and a couple of men approached the hole.† (source)
- The mouth of Kitum Cave was mostly invisible from the approach trail, blocked by boulders cloaked in moss.† (source)
- But as we were writing this book, two new studies pointed to another approach to revolutionize fertility and gender in the villages: television.† (source)
- I didn't mean it as a joke, especially after Neferet's mean cracks about Heath, but the detective seemed to be trying not to smile, which suddenly made him appear kind, and even approachable.† (source)
- I wait until Mrs. Peterson finishes her after-class discussion with Alex before approaching him.† (source)
- As my taxi approached Missing's gates, I saw Tsige stepping out of her Fiat 850 in front of her bar.† (source)
- It was twilight and traffic was increasing when we approached Profactia.† (source)
- Finally, the men approached the light of the campfire that had been built outside the shelter.† (source)
- Without passion or haste, they shot their prisoners, who were forced to approach the trench one by one and offer their necks.† (source)
- I take a gulp of champagne, approach the man, and smile brightly.† (source)
- I even knew when Stew Cat was approaching me.† (source)
- The play was approaching its last act, and all the people seemed to have thought they were sleeping.† (source)
- Train whistles, the fanfare of an approaching Santa Fe express, penetrated the courtroom.† (source)
- He was on another map altogether, rapidly approaching the distant corner and headed into the unknown.† (source)
- As the end of the month approached, my thoughts were drawn to Jason Stevens.† (source)
- His mother watches after him as in his frustration he approaches the door almost comically.† (source)
- And so, with an urgency that would soon turn to deep regret, he and Fezzik approached the Zoo of Death.† (source)
- As they argued, a most peculiar little figure stepped nimbly from behind the sign and approached them, talking all the while.† (source)
- The stands were too crowded; I couldn't approach them, but I'd watch to make sure they didn't leave.† (source)
- Damn, I didn't recognize you," says the man, waving on Cedric's approach.† (source)
- Probably Pea Eye gave no more thought to his life than he did to which side of a horse he approached.† (source)
- "Son," said Mrs. Bence, approaching the bedside, "air ye afeared to go over as far as my house right now?"† (source)
- Imagine you are approaching a particularly painful breakthrough and he decides he's just had all he can take of your-how would he put it?† (source)
- (as he writes)" ...creating a relaxed atmosphere which will change to one of tension and drama as the climax is approached.† (source)
- I lay in bed, listening for her footsteps, knowing that if she approached the door, if I heard it open, I wouldn't follow her.† (source)
- I approach the door and glance nervously at the trunks laid end-to-end across the back wall.† (source)
- Nor did he report that in the night the British had started "advancing by approaches," as it was known.† (source)
- We climb the steps, and the full height of the approaching columns is overwhelming.† (source)
- As a group approached the reviewing stand, even the most blase faces would beam with dazzling smiles, as if trying to prove they were properly joyful or, to be more precise, in properagreement.† (source)
- Two approached him from opposite sides, leaned against him.† (source)
- December, approaching the year's darkest night, and the only way out of the dream is down and through it.† (source)
- As my sixth month approached, Mother left San Francisco for Alaska.† (source)
- "The family is so afflicted," he explains, then adds, "Some people would say this is a scattershot approach.† (source)
- With no idea where the beech tree might be, I approached a gentleman muttering to himself as he dug up a flower bed.† (source)
- Yes, this approach employs the best analytical tools that economics can offer, but it also allows us to follow whatever freakish curiosities may occur to us.† (source)
- Approaching events were never coming, but always upcoming.† (source)
- Dr. Goofy Mutant gave me a copy of an article about Ganciclovir and about a dozen other new approaches being developed to control what they call "opportunistic infections."† (source)
- The water gave me a close-up of my husband's wonderful face-and I was watching when it went white at the sudden approach of armored men on horseback, thudding and jangling.† (source)
- He watched her eyes track around the diner area, and decided she was weighing where to sit, whom to approach.† (source)
- Still, my grasp of French is put to the test a second later when a carefully dressed old woman approaches the car and begins babbling to me a mile a minute.† (source)
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- I ate the fried pig skins, danced, screamed and drank the extra-sweet and sticky Coca-Cola with the nearest approach to abandonment I had ever experienced.† (source)
- The nearest approach to decoration was a number of wooden panels with sayings, mostly from Repentances, artistically burnt into them.† (source)
- The nearest approach to it in reality—the man who lives to serve others—is the slave.† (source)
- When she had brought up a cup of hot tea and a hot brick, rolled in flannel, she looked down at Scarlett and said, with the nearest approach to an apology in her voice Scarlett had ever heard: "Lamb, huccome you din' tell yo' own Mammy whut you wuz upter?† (source)
- This was the nearest approach Henchard could make to the full truth.† (source)
- "My Caroline," he would say, making the nearest approach that he could to bending over her.† (source)
- That was the nearest approach to independence a man could make "under capitalism," he explained; he would never marry, for no sane man would allow himself to fall in love until after the revolution.† (source)
- This was the nearest approach I could get to Harvard and to the fulfillment of my childish declaration.† (source)
- The nearest approach to her was a Unitarian minister from Boston, who very soon demanded a separation, for incompatibility of temper.† (source)
- No vair or ermine decked this garment; but in respect of his age, the Grand Master, as permitted by the rules, wore his doublet lined and trimmed with the softest lambskin, dressed with the wool outwards, which was the nearest approach he could regularly make to the use of fur, then the greatest luxury of dress.† (source)
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- Ralph never laughed, but on this occasion he produced the nearest approach to it that he could, and waiting until Mr Squeers had enjoyed the professional joke to his heart's content, inquired what had brought him to town.† (source)
- Boldwood was tenant of what was called Little Weatherbury Farm, and his person was the nearest approach to aristocracy that this remoter quarter of the parish could boast of.† (source)
- Perhaps the nearest approach to the latter that Hetty had manifested was to be seen in the sensitiveness which had caused her to detect March's predilection for her sister, for, among Judith's many admirers, this was the only instance in which the dull mind of the girl had been quickened into an observation of the circumstances.† (source)
- The lip of the moose is, perhaps, the nearest approach to the trunk of the elephant that is to be found in the American forest, but this resemblance was far from being sufficiently striking to bring the new creature within the range of their habits and ideas, and the more they studied the image, the greater was their astonishment.† (source)
- Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation—the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.† (source)
- Somewhere in this building was its owner, the man who had made him feel his nearest approach to hatred.† (source)
- That had been his nearest approach to success through conformity.† (source)
- That thought, by what I can now nearest approach to say it, is this.† (source)
- This was M. de Grosjoyaux's nearest approach to a generalization.† (source)
- "Oh, of course you see only the Mingott side," his mother answered, in the sensitive tone that was her nearest approach to anger.† (source)
- On my arrival at Starkfield, Denis Eady, the rich Irish grocer, who was the proprietor of Starkfield's nearest approach to a livery stable, had entered into an agreement to send me over daily to Corbury Flats, where I had to pick up my train for the Junction.† (source)
- Later still he was at Kennetbridge, a thriving town not more than a dozen miles south of Marygreen, this being his nearest approach to the village where he was known; for he had a sensitive dread of being questioned as to his life and fortunes by those who had been acquainted with him during his ardent young manhood of study and promise, and his brief and unhappy married life at that time.† (source)
- Mrs. van der Luyden shone on her with the dim benevolence which was her nearest approach to cordiality, and Mr. van der Luyden, from his seat at May's right, cast down the table glances plainly intended to justify all the carnations he had sent from Skuytercliff.† (source)
- When my mother came down to breakfast and was going to make the tea, Miss Murdstone gave her a kind of peck on the cheek, which was her nearest approach to a kiss, and said: 'Now, Clara, my dear, I am come here, you know, to relieve you of all the trouble I can.† (source)
- Gurth grinned, which was his nearest approach to a laugh, as he replied, "About the same quantity which thou hast just told over so carefully."† (source)
- Virgil and Beatrice, whose nature as depicted in the poem makes nearest approach to purely abstract and typical existence, are always consistently presented as living individuals, exalted indeed in wisdom and power, but with hardly less definite and concrete humanity than that of Dante himself.† (source)
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