accost
verb (used with object)
to confront boldly.
were accosting
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past progressiveof accost.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The people were accosting each other in a friendly way in the streets.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
Two minutes later, you were accosting my father.
From The Woman of Mystery by Maurice Leblanc
The guards were accosting the officers in their neighborhood, and had taken his among other vestments.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 by Various
The doctor was driving the horse and walking beside the sleigh, and the people were accosting him.
From Wayside Courtships by Hamlin Garland
