Sentence examples for had close at hand from inspiring English sources

Tess picked up a pen, but instead of marring the pristine baby book, she grabbed one of the black-and-white composition books she always had close at hand.

Such a collision is also present in a talisman that Mr. Baitz almost always has close at hand.

Beginning next week Mr. Kennedy will have close at hand the noted Harvard historian & belletrist, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., to see that he does not lose sight of the Great Issues.

Rock Health grad Skimble has created a motivation and fitness instruction platform with "Workout Trainer" that offers hundreds of workouts, which are guided by a dynamic audio and visuals aimed at giving aspiring health nuts an easy way to exercise, regardless of how much time they have, or what equipment they have close at hand.

I draw on walls, cars, people, paper, and bottles whatever I have close at hand.

She may only be 6, but she has already learned to read the tensions far better than the storybooks that Margo (Joanna Vanderham), her nanny, always has close at hand.

Lyndon B. Johnson picked bombing targets in Vietnam, and had a close-at-hand national security adviser, Walt W. Rostow, who was a relentless supporter of military intervention in Southeast Asia.

Ms. Stritch's move to Birmingham was motivated by fatigue with the heady bustle of New York ("I'm tired of the energy") and a desire to settle down where she had family close at hand.

You can have as many security blankets as you need, just make sure you always have one close at hand.

And a righteous exerciser has Central Park close at hand — or rather foot.

It is a cycle of bloodshed that Mr. Tsarnaev would have experienced close at hand when he was living here.