close at hand

How To Use close at hand In A Sentence

• The commanding general wishes to talk to her himself, but it is of low priority, with the fight so close at hand.
• The electricians had contrived a catchment pool and a wheel in the torrent close at hand -- for the little Mulhausen dynamo with its turbinal volute used by the telegraphists was quite adaptable to water driving, and on the sixth day in the evening the apparatus was in working order and the Prince was calling -- weakly, indeed, but calling -- to his air-fleet across the empty spaces of the world. The War in the Air
• Graduation day is close at hand.
• And when these had vanished in the distance Graham heard a peewit wailing close at hand. When the Sleeper Wakes
• On a table next to his chair, close at hand, he kept his collection of tiny soapstone sculptures. THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
• For the _crop, crop, crop_ of the browsing animals had begun again from close at hand, and the comrades stood listening for some little time while the otherwise unbroken stillness once more reigned. A Dash from Diamond City
• They palled up with booze and they kept their pal close at hand: a pint in the glove box, a flask on the hip, and most famously, the fifth in the desk.
• As we sailed on a light wind, small islands close at hand slid quickly past and behind them ranges stood immobile on the skyline.
• April air came up sweet and frore from the watermeadows of the Cherwell close at hand. The Altar Steps
• Noteworthy is the commentary of Gaetano da Thiene, who illustrated much of Heytesbury's abstract reason - ing on uniform and difform motions with examples drawn from nature and from artifacts that might be constructed from materials close at hand. Dictionary of the History of Ideas