How to use "approaching" in a sentence

As they were approaching the inn, Cosette turned to him and said, 'May I have the bucket now? If Mme Thenardier sees that someone has been helping me, she'll beat me.'

He was just approaching the rue de Chanvrerie when he heard a loud voice calling from the shadows: 'Who's there?'

"-approaching it ass-backwards

The two men were approaching at a run, slipping on the snows-potted pavement.

As the sound of the Chevy faded, he could discern the roar of another vehicle, approaching fast

Perhaps the lateness of the hour and the fading light would work against them, but approaching in the night might actually be to their advantage

Nobody on Earth knew anything about the approaching missile.

I turned around again and ran towards the approaching Martian, ran right down the stony beach and dived into the water

'Black Smoke!' As he stood at the door, not knowing what to do, he saw another newspaper-seller approaching him

Looking to the north-east, my brother saw the long line of ships already moving away from the approaching terror

At a later date we began to feel less in danger of being seen because the sunlight outside was very bright, but at first anything approaching the house drove us back into the hall in fear