A familiar face, Mychal Johnson, a member of the local community board, crossed the street to greet me.
Stores opened their doors after-hours to throw parties, host celebrities, and greet customers—all in the hope of selling clothes.
He paused as his former Republican colleague, Pete Domenici, slowly made his way across the room to greet him.
That fact alone permits Christie loyalists to greet the new negativity with a healthy degree of sangfroid.
Most of all the idea that the Republicans were going to greet the Obama era by just saying no to everything seemed absurd.
Charley Guttery, the landlord, was there to greet the minstrels.
In his haste to greet the fishing-skipper he left his daughter to the care of Captain Mayo.
I sprang to my feet with a cry of surprise and then ran forward to greet her.
greet our friends, and assure them of my desire to further their interests.
She came, with an inquiring and yet not wholly unconscious look, to the fireside, and he stood up to greet her.
Old English gretan "to come in contact with" (in sense of "attack, accost" as well as "salute, welcome," and "touch, take hold of, handle"), from West Germanic *grotjan (cf. Old Saxon grotian, Old Frisian greta, Dutch groeten, Old High German gruozen, German grüßen "to salute, greet"), perhaps originally "to resound" (via notion of "cause to speak"), causative of Proto-Germanic *grætanan, root of Old English grætan (Anglian gretan) "weep, bewail," from PIE *gher- "to call out." Greet still can mean "cry, weep" in Scottish & northern England dialect, though this might be from a different root. Grætan is probably also the source of the second element in regret. Related: Greeted; greeting.
