APPROACH in a Sentence

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What Tommy said was true, she thought, running over in her mind the men she had approached and the ones she intended to approach.

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 Meanings and Examples of APPROACH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
approach
 n.  access; method
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  After Zeena's departure he and Mattie had stood speechless, neither seeking to approach the other.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VIII
2  The road lay still and deserted and never a cloud of red dust proclaimed the approach of visitors.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  All the slaves except four women house servants had run away, frightened by the approach of the Yankees.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  Not even Mrs. Merriwether, doughty soul that she was, dared to approach Scarlett on the subject.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  What Tommy said was true, she thought, running over in her mind the men she had approached and the ones she intended to approach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  She was roused from her musings by the approach of her cousin Jack Stepney who, at Gwen Van Osburgh's side, was returning across the garden from the tennis court.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
7  The remark was uttered with a little air of proprietorship not lost on its object, who concealed a faint blush of annoyance by stooping to pick up the book he had dropped at Lily's approach.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
8  Fortune willed, however, that the hurried approach of Mrs. Fisher, as whose aide-de-camp Van Alstyne was acting, should break up the group before Selden reached the threshold of the room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
9  One or two of the men wandered off in search of their partners for supper, and the others, noticing Selden's approach, gave way to him in accordance with the tacit freemasonry of the ball-room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
10  The former, at Selden's approach, paused in the careful selection of a cigar from one of the silver boxes invitingly set out near the door.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
11  The other ladies had fallen back at her approach, and a space created itself about her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
12  The completeness of the analogy was, however, disturbed as she reached the sidewalk by the rapid approach of a hansom which pulled up at sight of her.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 5
13  She liked to leave her room early, and to return to it as late as possible; and she was walking slowly now in order to postpone the detested approach to her doorstep.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 11
14  Bathing and modeling were equally sound occasions for legs; the wedding-scene was but an approach to the thunderous climax when Mr. Schnarken slipped a piece of custard pie into the clergyman's rear pocket.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  By some fishermen his approach is regarded as premonitory of the advance of the great sperm whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
Example Sentence: (170 in 12 pages)
16  Bloomfield's approach to linguistics was based on observation of the language.
17  Warm breezes index the approach of spring.
18  We must approach the problem from a different standpoint.
19  The local authority's approach to health care seems totally haphazard.
20  In business, the pragmatic approach to problems is often more successful than an idealistic one.
21  As you approach the town, you'll see the college on the left.
22  The government is proclaiming a carrot-and-stick approach to the problem.
23  This approach seems very sensible to me.
24  You need to be more flexible and imaginative in your approach.
25  There are doubts as to the usefulness of this approach.
26  Police and bodyguards had to protect him as the almost hysterical crowds struggled to approach him.
27  It was clear to land so we made our approach.
28  We approach the end of the year with the economy slowing and little sign of cheer.
29  This has caused us to reassess the way we approach our planning.
30  She has a very slapdash approach to keeping accounts.