close-at-hand
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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Drawing grand lessons from especially vivid and close-at-hand examples is always tempting.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 24, 2014
We’re better at dealing with problems that are concrete, close-at-hand, familiar and require skills and tools that we already possess.
From Time • Jul. 15, 2013
The numerous species of traps use ingenious methods to cover the insects imprisoned in the blossom with the sticky pollen that they carry to the flower's close-at-hand female sex organ as they try to escape.
From Time Magazine Archive
The thick of the night was light and dark, with the dense intensity of down-pour; light in itself, and dark with shutting out all sight of everything—a close-at-hand confusion, and a distance out of measure.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
I was not in the least cast down at this long-range estimate, since I had become quite used to close-at-hand ridicule.
From The No Breakfast Plan and the Fasting-Cure by Dewey, Edward Hooker
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