Similar words: approach, poaching, reproach, reproachful, aching, teaching, bleaching, broach. Meaning: [ə'prəʊtʃ] n. 1. the event of one object coming closer to another 2. the temporal property of becoming nearer in time 3. the act of drawing spatially closer to something. adj. of the relatively near future.
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181) Lookouts on outlying islands warned fishing villages of approaching whales, whereupon great numbers of men in small boats gave chase.
182) The payment will be reduced under statutory provisions if the employee is approaching retirement age.
183) This detects any approaching heat source such as people or cars and automatically turns on, welcoming friends and deterring intruders.
184) But now as I watched him perform, I regarded his political commitment with something approaching awe.
185) I turned and saw a long blue column approaching with a corporal in charge.
186) For approaching the jury,(www.Sentencedict.com) she recommends walking slowly in a curving path to create intimacy.
187) Off course and approaching the mountain, they crashed into oblivion, and their families never knew for sure what happened.
188) Dazed, we wandered along flat ground towards the lake, when we heard the roar of an approaching speedboat.
189) Yet this interventionism has not led to the creation of anything approaching an Executive Office.
190) He resolved the problem by adopting the role of lookout, warning the men when strangers, particularly police, were approaching.
191) Kylesku was notorious, and approaching cars raced to be in the front of the queue to avoid a frustrating wait.
192) The mind no longer needs to invent its reality-the reality is in its face, rapidly approaching dead-on.
193) At about dusk last Saturday, it was approaching a civilian airstrip in Marana, about 25 miles northwest of Tucson.
194) She watched the bright spark of the spear approaching, and felt nothing but a dull kind of relief.
195) Another five years on, it is approaching £10m, and grew by 65 per cent over the last year.
196) The shop assistant, staring idly through his shop-window, saw the school bus approaching its stop, through almost blinding rain.
197) They made love as though tomorrow was fast approaching(sentencedict.com), and with it imminent departure.
198) Noctuid moths are eaten by bats, and have evolved a special pair of ears to warn them of approaching danger.
199) This time he seems to be picking up the signals of some approaching hostility towards him.
200) They have drawn out the magical circle simply to trap the adventurers, when they saw them approaching the area.
201) Ragged children run up to approaching cars with delight because motorized vehicles are a rare sight.
202) The noise of approaching footsteps on the stair was therefore welcome; but it turned out to be only the telegraph boy.
203) As it was, marchers approaching John Street had to dodge a fusillade of missiles thrown by the loyalists.
204) A wall of dark water, approaching our port side at an incredible speed.
205) You should really think twice before approaching this woman or before telling your boyfriend.
206) To film arctic foxes facing up to the rigours of approaching winter.
207) If we allow that logic then, the time must be approaching that the guy taking credit must now accept the blame.
208) The night had passed without any alarm, and the early light revealed no signs of an approaching storm.
209) The largest column, which was at Phaistos, had a diameter approaching 1 metre.
210) But if he seems to be in something approaching hypnotic trance, be very careful of your language.
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