within reach


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How to use within reach in a sentence

  • She went to sleep with the silk dress hanging over a chair within reach.

  • The administration had been too corrupt, the exactions too heavy to be longer borne, when reform appeared to be within reach.

  • At night, after ten, your concierge opens the heavy iron gate of your court by pulling a cord within reach of the family bed.

    The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley Smith
  • Not the heavy iron bar within reach of his hand, whose force they knew.

    The Real Latin Quarter | F. Berkeley Smith
  • Fleetfoot was within reach of the strange woman before he saw his mistake.

    The Later Cave-Men | Katharine Elizabeth Dopp