APPROACH in a Sentence

Learn APPROACH from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
380 example sentences for APPROACH, such as:
1. They've taken a very cautious approach.
2. He has a thoughtful approach to his work.
3. He didn't approach the front door at once.
4. Two broad types of approach can be identified.
5. My doctor takes a holistic approach to disease.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of APPROACH
approach
 n.  a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green
 v.  begin to deal with
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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 Mitchell
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)
1  Tough--minded optimists approach problems with a can-do philosophy and emerge stronger from tragedies.
2  The approach taken by US courts has been more progressive than that in Britain.
3  Be careful how you approach her - she's very temperamental.
4  There's a certain novelty value in this approach.
5  They had to approach the castle through thick swamps.
6  The wine made him bold enough to approach her and introduce himself.
7  The company is taking a more robust approach to management.
8  He didn't approach the front door at once.
9  We like this approach because it fits in with our own preconceptions.
10  Two broad types of approach can be identified.
11  My doctor takes a holistic approach to disease.
12  He has a thoughtful approach to his work.
13  You should slow down as you approach the junction.
14  They've taken a very cautious approach.
15  Perhaps you should adopt a more conciliatory approach.