Explore Accost through 6 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like address or come. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Accost meaning
- To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
- To join side to side; to border.
- To sail along the coast or side of.
Using Accost
- The main meaning on this page is: To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. | To join side to side; to border. | To sail along the coast or side of.
- Useful related words include: address, come up to, come, come up.
- In the example corpus, accost often appears in combinations such as: to accost.
Context around Accost
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 5 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Accost
- In this selection, "accost" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, verbally, passersby, turiccki and wardlow stand out and add context to how "accost" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and verbally accost him and began to accost michel for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "accost" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with accost
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He then went to accost Wardlow, but got blasted with a right hand. (13 words)
Officers said the woman allegedly tried to accost someone at a nearby Safeway shortly before the stabbing. (17 words)
The online group arrived in Eastfield Road, Peterborough, to accost Turiccki on 20 February 2022 and he was arrested by officers. (21 words)
The video, tapped by the victim Wesly Michel, showed Michael Cukor as he began to accost Michel for simply waiting in the building’s lobby while he waited for his friend. (31 words)
The prime example of this is the protesters and rioters who accost passersby, beat and bloody up pedestrians, chase children, and vandalize Jewish-owned storefronts. (25 words)
Video from the encounter shows that the driver was forced to the ground by protesters nearby, who continued to physically and verbally accost him. (24 words)
Example sentences (6)
The prime example of this is the protesters and rioters who accost passersby, beat and bloody up pedestrians, chase children, and vandalize Jewish-owned storefronts.
The online group arrived in Eastfield Road, Peterborough, to accost Turiccki on 20 February 2022 and he was arrested by officers.
Video from the encounter shows that the driver was forced to the ground by protesters nearby, who continued to physically and verbally accost him.
He then went to accost Wardlow, but got blasted with a right hand.
Officers said the woman allegedly tried to accost someone at a nearby Safeway shortly before the stabbing.
The video, tapped by the victim Wesly Michel, showed Michael Cukor as he began to accost Michel for simply waiting in the building’s lobby while he waited for his friend.
Common combinations with accost
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to accost 4×