How To Use Approaching In A Sentence

And approaching that very machine, his last pound coin clutched in his fist, was Felix Henderson McMurdo.
I didn't move until I heard slow footsteps and peaked over the top of the gold to see Garren warily approaching the dragon, favoring his left leg.
Last April I wrote a column that suggested it was unwise to try to load the .45 Colt to levels approaching the .44 Magnum.
Sitting at his toll booth one day, the publican saw Jesus approaching.
The main problem with this method is that by invalidating certain moves, a valid path approaching the tile from a different direction can be left unfound .

This class may be made to print much more rapidly than our ordinary silver printing process, approaching sometimes more nearly to the calotype development in this respect. Photographic Reproduction Processes
A rather odd thing has just just occurred in the life of nerdy high school student Peter Parker; after being bitten by a radioactive spider, his body chemistry is mutagenically altered in that he can scale walls and ceilings, and he develops a "spider-sense" that warns him of approaching danger. Listal promoted
Tayrah took a deep breath and smothered the anger she felt approaching and then quickly changed the subject.
The golden week of National Day is approaching.
It's approaching the top of the hour and the polls will be closing in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. None of the news organizations did what we call the exit polling in Washington, D.C. As a result, we're not going to be able to project a winner based on anything other than guesswork right now. CNN Transcript Feb 12, 2008
At low engine speeds while the car is heading up slight grades, the Elantra engine chuffs and rocks in its cradle; and at moderate-to-highway speeds, if you kick it hard in the slats, the powertrain starts to whine with something approaching resentment. Hyundai Takes a Bold Stand in the Compact Race
Judas and his men thanked these people and asked them to extend the same kindness to his race in the future. Then they returned to Jerusalem, since the feast of Weeks of Pentecost was approaching.
Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.
The haute école of classical equitation includes movements with direct military application, like the capriole which was originally intended to enable a horseman to use his steed to kick an attacker approaching from behind.
Another potential flashpoint is approaching. Times, Sunday Times
These features can be explained if a volcanic island arc was approaching from that direction. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
Since back to school time is rapidly approaching, here are answers to the four most common questions we get from parents about allowances.
Approaching childbirth from the angle of pain and surgery is innovative.
In the darkened operations room below decks, grey overalled officers and sailors watched an approaching blip on their radar screens.
On the gnomonic projection, the landing site is approaching and the surface features become sharper.
He heard footsteps approaching, and drove his spurs so fiercely into the roan as to force a surprised groan from the animal as it leaped forward. War
Gunner Oke at the breach, and advised him to exhibit a dose of black-currant wine before turning in (as a specific against a chill in the extremities), was proceeding leisurably to cut himself a quid of tobacco when he became aware of two workmen -- carpenters they appeared to be in the dim light -- approaching the entry. Merry-Garden and Other Stories
His experiments with rockets led him to conclude that when approaching supersonic speeds aerodynamic forces vary as the velocity cubed rather then squared, which was the operative rule at slower speeds.
He found her in a white cymar of silk lined with furs, her little feet unstockinged and hastily thrust into slippers; her unbraided hair escaping from under her midnight coif, with little array but her own loveliness, rather augmented than diminished by the grief which she felt at the approaching moment of separation. Kenilworth
Winter is approaching
Under the pleasurable sense of freedom, thanks to the relaxation of the bit, with stately bearing and legs pliantly moving he dashes forward in his pride, in every respect imitating the airs and graces of a horse approaching other horses. On Horsemanship
The switches are large and solid, and the bold shapes and contours give the impression of utility without ever approaching the austere.
Before anything approaching a thorough and profitable study of the sounds of the American common speech is possible, there must be a careful assembling of the materials, and this, unfortunately, still awaits a phonologist of sufficient enterprise and equipment. Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 10. Vulgar Pronunciation
We must have been approaching 50 or 60 km/h when I felt a pair of little hands clutching at my bumbag.
Residents in Passage East are enduring another summer of discontent due to traffic tailbacks approaching the local car ferry.
The male menopause is said to affect men who are approaching middle age.
They dropped the gennaker and went into the 360 deg turn around the pin end of the line with Azzurra approaching fast. NZ On Screen
On approaching the Moravian chapel we observed the negroes, wending their way churchward, from the surrounding estates, along the roads leading into town. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
The golden week of National Day is approaching.
In fact, he loathed the lavenders so much, he said he'd cross the street if he saw a homo approaching
They have drawn out the magical circle simply to trap the adventurers, when they saw them approaching the area.
Approaching in its effects more closely to the electric bath than any other remedy, is the process known as “general faradization,” to which I have already alluded (p. 36). The Electric Bath
Professor von Duhn told me that once when approaching an Italian village in search of inscriptions he was taken for the devil, being unluckily mounted on a black horse and dressed in black, and was met by a priest with a crucifix, who was at last persuaded to "disinfect" him with holy water as a condition of his being admitted to the village. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus
Recreational activities and evening classes are advertised for the longer nights approaching.
Approaching the end of the channel, we found that the German couple who had pushed on ahead had encountered a more vigorous current and were clinging to the reef, their bodies extended like banners in the slipstream.
Backstage proper I had expected something approaching theatrical Bedlam. Times, Sunday Times
The time is fast approaching when we shall have to make a decision.
When the midsummer sun rises directly over the heel stone, it marks the turning of the season and the approaching harvest season.
Conditions were so atrocious in rains triggered by an approaching typhoon that no helicopter could fly him to hospital. The Sun
How much delay in approaching efficiency can be expected from the existence of long-lived buildings on most urban land?
Interactive behaviors include quiet affiliation or 'tending,' approaching and retreating, olfactory investigation of urine and feces, flehmen response, and the precopulatory teasing sequence of mares in estrus," says McDonnell. TheHorse.com News
The male menopause is said to affect men who are approaching middle age.
The initial hilarity and horror become a story about Japan old and new, with the added peril of an approaching comet. Times, Sunday Times
Mykel waited until the crafter departed before approaching the craftmaster. Cadmian's Choice
The style, which was calculated for a cosmopolitan image, set off a sharp-featured almost ferretlike, approaching-fifty face that had been carefully preserved by a Dallas plastic surgeon. The Brush Off
Boredom, cold water and unpalatable food are just some of the hardships facing Paul Cleasby, who has now been in Antalya jail for approaching three weeks.
In math, this idea is represented as a limit of a function oscillating and eventually approaching an asymptote; in physics this is known as damped oscillations (for all the math and science geeks). Auren Hoffman: When and Why We Pendulum
Now Magdalena was approaching the Rickenbacker Causeway which linked Key Biscayne with Miami, a long stretch over black water. MAMBO
Sales and gross margins at the Hopkinton (Mass.) company are approaching their boom-time levels.
The price is high, reflecting the risks to the suppliers of seizures en route and the risks of detection and arrest approaching the points of sale. Times, Sunday Times
The first thing one sees when approaching the dance studio is a hanging apple, suspended in mid-air.
After leaving us they had attacked him, throwing several boomerangs and waddies at him; he had only one barrel of his gun loaded with shot; they all spread out and surrounded him, gradually approaching from all sides. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
They made a quick exit when they saw the police approaching.
The band are now all approaching 40 and earn a comfortable living from their royalties.
The great increase of games and festivals and their enormous cost were signs of approaching trouble for the republic, and foretold the terrible days of the empire, when the rabblement of the capital, accustomed to be amused and fed by their despotic and corrupt rulers, should cry in the streets: "Give us bread for nothing and games forever! The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic
The guard at the gate challenged anyone approaching the building.
With another Election Day approaching, conservatives are again trotting out conspiracy theories about elections stolen through voter fraud. The voter fraud racket is back!
That deadline is fast approaching, and from the end of December Jubilee 2000 will be no more.
The blocks of paper demolished the wall that was being repaired by builder David Gott after they were flung from the vehicle on the sharp corner bend approaching Keighley Road from Colne.
Almost half resort to approaching their coworker via online dating. The Sun
The provincial election in Alberta is fast approaching with a November 22nd or 29th vote.
At that moment I saw the two Thunderbolts flying ahead of them and I reported bandits approaching.
In the 1880s, while studying the three-body problem, he found that there can be orbits which are nonperiodic, and yet not forever increasing nor approaching a fixed point. - Latest Popular Stories, Instablogs Community
People are not approaching them due to lack of education or indifference.
Making someone happy is perhaps the humblest way of approaching happiness.
I've been taking to napping on the subway, and somehow have been honing this sixth sense about when the train is approaching my stop.
I was approaching a fairly sharp bend that swept downhill to the left.
The upper mandible, which is strongly convex, exhibits upon its median line a slight ridge, which is quite wide at its origin, and then continues to decrease and becomes sensibly depressed as far as to the center of its length, and afterward rises on approaching the anterior extremity, where it terminates in a powerful hook, which seems to form Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
The girl felt it in every nerve; it was as though some soft-footed, noiseless, shapeless creature, whose presence she only dimly divined, was approaching nearer -- _nearer_. Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners)
At any given time, we're in varying stages of life; just entering military spousedom, no deployment on the horizon, pre-deployment, deployment, post-deployment, approaching service separation, etc. November 2009 - SpouseBUZZ
Do you mean to tell me," she inquired, with something approaching sternness, "that my father -- _my father_ -- was ever fond of poetry and -- and music, and -- and all that sort of thing? With the Procession
They were engaging the audience by approaching them while lip-syncing and performing dramaturgy. Nezar Hamze: Weekend of Prayer, Peace and Unity in South Florida
If you're approaching Italy from the elegantly manicured and often overdeveloped French Riviera, then Liguria comes as a delightful surprise.
With the corner approaching he advised using the brakes and a change down into second. Times, Sunday Times
When approaching a traditional nomad's ger, the correct greeting is "Nokhoi khor," which literally means "hold the dog. Bill Heavey Chases Mongolian Taimen (with Prairie Dogs as Bait)
He insists that he'll not be in a particular hurry - though he neglects to mention whether he'll pick it up a gear if, approaching Loch Lomond, he realises that the Lions are about to kick off.
Approaching exam time children get apprehensive and nervous about learning and become worried about making a fool of themselves.
Then approaching the striking zone, he drew the goal-keeper out and confused him by delaying his strike before slotting the ball into the left-corner.
By little and little, the surface of the plate takes a yellow tint, which darkens more and more, approaching to bistre.
George heard the soft shuffle of footsteps approaching from the hall.
The June light, now approaching the middle hours of the day, and radiant with sunshine, fell in long golden shafts across the body of the choir and into the ranks of the brothers and obedientiaries opposite, gilding half a face here and throwing its other half into exaggerated shade, there causing dazzled eyes in a blanched face to blink away the brightness. The Rose Rent
They can even recognize depth and may respond with a defensive reaction to approaching objects.
She's trailing in the polls approaching Election Day and the municipal tax base doesn't have the funds to cover the rising costs at local school boards.
In her new book, she presents a practical guide for actors in approaching and performing Shakespearean texts.
Katie had never before heard her mother called Bessie, and had never seen anything approaching in size or colour to such a nose, consequently she ran away frightened. The Three Clerks
We also have associate members who are not yet of retirement age but are approaching it with some trepidation.
If we step on shore, the ‘Charadrius caruncula’, a species of plover, a most plaguy sort of “public-spirited individual”, follows you, flying overhead, and is most persevering in its attempts to give fair warning to all the animals within hearing to flee from the approaching danger. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
Don Yeomans, NASA senior research scientist Q: Is there a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is approaching the Earth and threatening our planet with widespread destruction?
Peter was a voracious reader, a tireless networker, intrepid and fearless at approaching the biggest names, and dogged in working with authors to finish their manuscripts.
Finding the promised firmaun came not, and the hot season of the year fast approaching, we departed on the 3d April in the prosecution of our journey, leaving directions with Richard Barber to send it after us. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
The screen's display changed, bringing them an ever closer view of the gas giant they were approaching.
This year his performances have been inconsistent but his semi-final berth at a recent tournament show he is approaching peak form just in time.
For me, I guess the core reason was ‘fascination’ - things firing my imagination and integrating that with my angle on approaching the world.
I found this point particularly fruitful in approaching these two Chinese American women writers.
Instead it is a springboard upon which to hurtle back downwards at approaching the speed of light. Times, Sunday Times
Unemployment is rapidly approaching the one million mark.
everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it
Besides, overall group alertness has been shown to increase with group size in capybaras and degus, which may result in increased probabilities of detecting an approaching predator.
School sports day is approaching and, with it, the chance to get arrested for viewing the races through binoculars from behind the school railings. Times, Sunday Times
What part of an inverse tangent function approaching an asymptote don't you understand? MIND MELD: The Best Genre-Related Books/Films/Shows Consumed in 2009 (Part 1)
I stood at the edge of the drive, out of sight of the approaching runner.
I was on the point of approaching but I didn't have the courage in case he told me to clear off.
Here is a list of things that will help in approaching the job without a big fuss or a panic: Archive 2009-01-01
The large caliber bullets tore into the approaching enemy soldiers with viciousness.
Thus, the number of proteins is approaching a meaningful level to cover a diverse set of potential therapeutic and toxicity targets.
What we don't have is a similar drive for youngsters approaching adulthood. The Sun
She has been tracked for three weeks after approaching a boat carrying fisheries protection officers south of Albany. Times, Sunday Times
The jocular expression of an approaching dangerous social situation is often conveyed by people sounding out its ominous low-pitched glissando quavers. Archive 2010-04-01
With the lambing season approaching, this is an especially sensitive time. Times, Sunday Times
Caledonia, we are a Royal Air Force search and rescue helicopter and we are approaching you on a radar vector from the north. LET NOT THE DEEP
Celeste is approaching fifteen, the age when she may be given in marriage to an older man in her isolated, rural commune. The Virtual Bookmark:
Yet it is also directly analogous to the reality that's fast approaching the modern filmgoer. Times, Sunday Times
It was approaching lunchtime and Jake's stomach was rumbling, but there were still a few more members of staff to speak to before he could think about eating.
Reacting to media reports about growing flour prices, Kabil said wheat, flour, and bread prices were approaching the ideal ratio of one to two to four.
The publication of his collected poems was approaching the status of an event.
It is a video of an empty plastic bag dancing in the street, blown here and there by the gusty winds of an approaching storm.
If the elliptical arch be equally strong with the semicircular; that is, if an arch, by approaching to a straight line, loses none of its stability, it will follow, that all arcuation is useless, and that the bridge may at last, without any inconvenience, consist of stone laid in straight lines from pillar to pillar. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” Think Progress » GOP Claims It’s Upholding The Legacy Of MLK, A Fighter Against The ‘Injustice’ In Health Care Inequality
Because of falling mortgage rates, refi activity in late July was approaching the record levels seen last year.
Turn in is immediate and roll free, although braking while approaching a corner can be a bit snatchy.
Upon approaching the site, the main iron gates are anchored with brick piers and cast stone finials that frame the building beyond.
They were approaching a roundabout. Somewhere East of Life
His wilful jettisoning of anything approaching drama in the last act, though, scuppers the whole production.
The executioner who is called a headsman then walks forward approaching the chair from the rear. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
Something approaching a lynch mob has been gathering against the Chancellor for even daring to consider higher interest rates.
I considered the flask with something approaching awe, and I touched its silvered epidermis. ANTI-ICE
With no experience as a filmmaker, she picked up a camera and began approaching ringless women on the streets of Boston. Single women, their dating adventures are subjects of new documentary, book
Deeply saddened that neither way would save them from the approaching eternal damnation, she started to fix her things and go home.
He reckons to have approaching 2,000 items, including collectable concert tickets. Times, Sunday Times
And seeing an Arahant approaching the house-door, she bade him 'Come in hither, lord,' and did him homage, showing him to a seat; she then took his bowl and filled it with food. Psalms of the Sisters
Reports in Shanghai's usually tame newspapers complained that journalists were barred from approaching the mine.
Hammerschlag also nabbed third place in the student category with this photo of an oceanic whitetip shark approaching a tiny fish off Cat Island in the Bahamas.
Now that the deadline is approaching we all feel under pressure.
Hardly had we finished the meal when the rat-tat, rat-tat of small-arms showed that the British were approaching. With Steyn and De Wet
My nemesis is approaching, my greatest foe.
Just imagine approaching a table at a gun show with a borescope tucked under your arm.
Did you ever consider approaching your linguistics department with a master's thesis solely dedicated to onomatopoeia?
approaching old age
Many friends and colleagues have been fired or laid off and watching the news or reading the daily paper leads me to believe that doomsday is approaching. Jeep Incapable Of Selling To Man With $24,000 In Cash - The Consumerist
The publication of his collected poems was approaching the status of an event.
With exams approaching, it's a good idea to review your class notes.
The first episode of the passion account is that of a nameless woman who anoints Jesus for burial, correctly recognizing his kingly identity and his approaching death.
There were some who said it was a monkish trick, contrived for his own ends by one of the brethren from Beauvais, but, less than six months later, all Scotland believed that the skeleton masquer at Jedburgh had, indeed, come to warn an unfortunate land of its approaching doom. Stories of the Border Marches
People are on the road approaching the river. Christianity Today
On approaching the edge of a pond at a distance from a “spring” of teal, they may be seen silently reposing on the water.
Now Magdalena was approaching the Rickenbacker Causeway which linked Key Biscayne with Miami, a long stretch over black water. MAMBO
Marty (1955)- Approaching his middle years, lonely, overweight butcher Marty Pilletti (Ernest Borgnine) lives with his mother and has given up on love, until one day he meets plain but warm-hearted schoolteacher Clara (Betsy Blair). John Farr: For Valentine's Day, Ten Movies Sure To Inspire Romance
We are all in search of ways of approaching this protean subject; neither metaphor alone nor purely mechanistic interpretations take us very far.
first day of school, I know your new teacher. When I see you feel so warm, warm. In three years you will let us grow into a more sturdy trees. No matter whether I will be tall and straight trees, or low shrubs. Teacher, I will pay tribute to your life green. I hope our youth will always be with you the joy, Teacher's Day approaching, my dear teacher, I wish you good health and good luck!
The boomers can't put off for any longer the fact that - chronologically - they are approaching middle age.
One of them looked up at the approaching sight of the blonde bombshell in a short skirt and black leather jacket wrapped tight around her very arousing figure.
Liz replaced the receiver and tried to keep calm, but she could feel panic, fever, tears approaching.
Mostly it was about what they were going to do when the fast approaching weekend arrived and brought with it the promise of a brief respite from school.
The two men looked through the crenel and saw a herald approaching from the Saracen lines. The Falcons of Montabard
The first thing one sees when approaching the dance studio is a hanging apple, suspended in mid-air.
Another way of approaching the attack on the ball is to put a small obstacle in the way of the downswing.
If he'd mentally goggled at the notion of her bearding Elderby with the existence of a family by-blow, he reeled at the thought of her approaching Lord Thomas Caverlock with the same news. Hero Come Back
(After a slight pause) No, there is no citizen approaching the palace; so mount the ancient cedar steps, and view the plains that skirt Ismenus and the fount of Dirce to see the mighty host of foemen. The Phoenissae
In every case, it said finite reserves of these minerals were approaching exhaustion and prices would rise steeply.
We arrived as dusk was approaching, when the moors appeared particularly haunted and the dark silhouette of the castle ruins stood out boldly against the fading light. On the Trail of Merlin - a guide to the Celtic mystery tradition
A couple approaching their golden anniversary have thanked the Lord for 50 years of marital bliss.
It just sat there on the plate, stolid, pallid, and completely lacking in anything even approaching meal appeal.
His study of the caudillos focuses on Angel Vicente Penaloza, known as El Chacho, ‘The Boy’ (although he was approaching seventy years old).
Approaching the Mersey Bar Lightship at a quarter-to-seven she was hit by a severe north-westerly gale.
Falbrav took the lead along the rails soon after entering the straight, but defending champion High Chaparral responded well to nose just in front approaching the line.
Offshore, great rafts of the seabirds rise and fall slowly on lazy swells, their white heads glowing in the faint afternoon sun beneath an approaching line of dark clouds.
The Chief Minister said he sees a collision course approaching but won't do anything to divert it.
What at first was no more than a dim anticipation of approaching catastrophes developed, after 1914, into an all-pervading obsession.
His lambrequin mustache -- relic of a forgotten Anglomania -- had been profoundly black, but now, like his smooth hair, it was approaching an equally sheer whiteness; and though his clothes were old, they had shapeliness and a flavor of mode. The Turmoil
You acted perfectly properly in approaching me first.
A filter lane is in place for all cars approaching from the M61 direction.
What we're effectively seeing is the displacement of democratic representative government with something approaching plutocracy.
You are not approaching the problem in the correct manner.
I heard footsteps on the sidewalk and saw a hulk of a man approaching from the office, who I first assumed was a guest.
In the far distance I saw a ride approaching.
The approaching bicentenary of the battle in 1815 promises a host of books, but it will be hard to better these two early risers. Times, Sunday Times
We might be experiencing some turbulence on this flight due to an approaching electrical storm.
a footstep behind him, he turned round, and beheld approaching him a young and graceful form, habited in a white hacqueton wrought in gold, with golden spurs on his feet, and a helmet of the same costly metal on his head, crested with white feathers. The Scottish Chiefs
With the Test series fast approaching, Fleming will be hoping for similar hands from the rest of his batsmen to prevent yet another whitewash at the hands of Pakistan.
The advancing supertanker was a huge bright-green blob on the screen, approaching them on what seemed like a collision course. LET NOT THE DEEP
The "knowns" -- the gifted Galt MacDermott, the ingenious British designer John Bury, the not yet knighted Peter Hall, couldn't have had better pedigrees for approaching a piece of such ambition: there was a space ship that sailed over the orchestra; trampolines cratered into the stage to bounce us like 'low gravity' might, and a massive rocket tail would blast us all off at the show's end in quadraphonic sound. Melanie Chartoff: Spine-tingling"Spiderman"--for All the Wrong Reasons
They see the inevitable endgame approaching and they have decided to address the situation with a multi-pronged strategy in hopes of delaying the end of their traditional business model as long as possible. What’s in store for the major labels?
Most Americans now alive have gone their whole lives believing they had something approaching a free pass to escape the miseries of war, terror, and want.
Community unrest is rapidly approaching the flashpoint.
A deep-toned booming note came then from the hills, commencing like the warning siren of a space liner approaching its berth and swelling to a bombilation of ear-shattering sound that set the steel of the _Nomad's_ hull vibrating and their very flesh and bones a-tingle. Creatures of Vibration
People are on the road approaching the river. Christianity Today
For the first time my dreams changed, I was stalking an antelope in the dry grass, approaching nearer and nearer until I killed it with my sword.
Here was a man approaching the end of his tether. The Sun
The meteorologist's announcement of an approaching cold front triggers memories of the spectacular blue northers of my youth which I would watch from the shelter of our garage.
Other law firms are approaching us to act on a consultancy basis and I expect that we and other specialist firms will see this trend continue. Times, Sunday Times
With the New Year approaching, Daphne's resolved to make everything all right again.
Conditions were so atrocious in rains triggered by an approaching typhoon that no helicopter could fly him to hospital. The Sun
I glanced up and saw that a woman with a disability was approaching my office ready to clean the handle on my door with a rag soaked in disinfecting cleaner. Recognition
The brick wall is approaching, and they merrily say things to mislead the Bahamian public.
By little and little, the surface of the plate takes a yellow tint, which darkens more and more, approaching to bistre.

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