Sentence examples for to be accosted from inspiring English sources

He seemed pleased to be accosted by staff and patrons alike, feigning surprise at every compliment.

She was hardly ever rumbled; who expects to be accosted by Johansson on their way to the Asda in Govan?

To enter his foyer is to be accosted by posters and photographs of male bodybuilders wearing next to nothing, except gargantuan muscles and an aura of testosterone.

The stores and the city are facing suits by at least three shoppers who said they bought expensive items only to be accosted shortly after by officers and accused of a crime.

When the teenagers who have been patiently trailing us take cover under a tree of their own, he eyes them and mutters: "I feel like we're going to be accosted.

Further down the slopes you're less likely to be accosted by oversize squirrels than by taxi drivers, who gather wherever a piste comes close to a road to shout for custom.

I'm from the MTV generation: we're used to being accosted by changing images, pop music, blockbuster art.

The candidates have been picked, dozens of activists are out leafleting and shoppers are getting used to being accosted by journalists and politicians.

In the past, I had become used to being accosted by Americans who want to talk to me about creating job opportunities for frustrated, unemployed Arabs.

You'll also be accosted – getting accosted happens a lot in Paris – by people trying to sell you roses.

That a pioneer like Mann would be accosted – in Paris, of all places – is a travesty.