Sentence examples for nearest at hand from inspiring English sources

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The choice depends upon the geology of the dam site and the construction materials that are nearest at hand.

As has been true throughout history, the Jews who ended up victims Saturday were simply those nearest at hand.

Swanberg is a prolific filmmaker because he recognizes and extracts the drama from what's nearest at hand.

Again and again and again women fall back on making art from the thing nearest at hand that separates them from men: their bodies — and often echo their predecessors rather literally.

And what is true title by title is also true sentence by sentence: forced to make Proust a little more elusive and enigmatic and allusive than he is, Moncrieff turned instinctively to James's elusive and enigmatic allusiveness, the English equivalent nearest at hand.

"People like it". And they both believe the best materials for arrangements are often those nearest at hand.

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What about the potency of the near-at-hand?

They've dug deep into near-at-hand sources and pulled out little-seen material.

The story shifts from the near-at-hand to long lens.

Although near-at-hand, tourism from the US had been severely limited in the past, but is expected to increase dramatically after rules were relaxed in 2016.

That Augie is Jewish and speaks an English in which Yiddish inflections, constructions and expressions are heard is part of what makes him, as he describes himself at the novel's end, "a Columbus of those near-at-hand".

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