Sentence examples for have close at hand from inspiring English sources

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.

A young vigorous coadjutor might have remedied these deficiencies; but Gibbons' attachment to old ways and reluctance to have close at hand an archbishop with whom he would have to share his authority made the plan unattractive.

If someone breaks into your home when you are there, which would you prefer to have close at hand: 1) a telephone to call 911, or 2) a loaded gun of respectable caliber?

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.

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

"We chose the site of a deserted miner's cabin for our camping ground where fine water was to be had close at hand.

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.

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.

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