Sentence examples for accosted on from inspiring English sources

Being accosted on the street by a crazy person who shouts in your face?

"I just shrug my shoulders and say, 'Oh, that was unpleasant,' when I'm accosted on the street.

Hungarian speakers complain of being accosted on public trams or in hospitals, and yelled at to speak Slovak.

"I once had to give a talk there and was accosted on my way in by two sabre-toothed pensioners.

The author was accosted on a London streetcorner by Pierre Flatulin, a French public-relations man who invited him to a reception for 66 Miss Globe contestants.

Later that night, after he left the bar, he was accosted on the street by a group of about a dozen youths and severely beaten.

Turning the page, there's a piece about the Voice's terrifying team mascot Captain Voice Power, who dresses in black and has exceptionally bad photographs taken of himself with readers, whom he accosts on the street if they're carrying a copy of the paper, and then gives R200 (about $35).

"I can remember when [Huelskamp] was still in the Senate and he accosted me on the stairs one day and lit into me," recalled former state Senate President Steve Morris, a lifelong Republican and Sherow supporter.

Logano was uninjured — after both the wreck and a post-race dust-up with another former teammate, Tony Stewart, who accosted Logano on pit road after the race in connection with an earlier on-track incident.

Two youngish guys dressed in slacker clothes — one with a microphone, the other with a camera — accosted me on the sidewalk in front of my apartment building.

Tom Fontana, who was a writer and producer on the series, recalls that after the bizarre ending was shown, viewers accosted him on the street.