Example Sentences

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Speaking of Boyd … while he is accosting well-to-do strangers in Clover Hill, Raylan is at least doing some detective work.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2013

If there is one thing I dislike," I said, "it is accosting total strangers and badgering them for information they don't possess—not that that will prevent them from giving it.

From Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman by Hay, Ian

Jackson has just ridden up, and is accosting Lee.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 9. by Twain, Mark