accosted

The doctors were accosted by local settlers, and the Arab doctors and their families were subjected to racial harassment.

It was not the first time by several he had thus accosted her; and to give her her due, she was always civil to him.

It was the man with the bluish cheek scar who had accosted him after the triple-killing in that office building.

It sometimes happened during our journey that I was accosted by some one or other when unobserved, in places where we stopped.

We accosted the friend, feeling instinctively that she was framed of softer stuff, and asked her if the path were a private one.

No sooner were we inside the railings than Mr. Kipling was accosted by a military policeman.