Sentence examples for reach straight from inspiring English sources

"Salmon farmers will reach straight for the medicine bottle if there's a problem," one former fish farm worker told me.

I admired the delicate tracery in the back of a chair, elegant as a Chippendale, fashioned, he told me, from slender green and flexible "sunshoots" that spring from any part of the tree, and reach straight up towards the light.

Amid bronze-leaved Japanese maples and ancient cedars whose corded trunks reach straight and tall to the sky, Mr. and Mrs. Vancouver and their kids throng Stanley Park on foot, in horse-drawn carriages, on bicycles, on in-line skates.

What's more, the dropoff is so steep that racers who have stopped to inspect the course during practice can perform an unusual trick: they can actually reach straight out and touch the slope with their uphill hand.

When 7 9-month-old human infants see the toy through the closed plexiglass side of the box, they will reach straight for it, despite tactile feedback from the plexiglass.

It seems rather obvious but all too often people reach straight for the toothpaste tube before washing their hands.

An Israeli map that reaches straight to the Jordan is indeed seductive.

The salon can be reached straight from Grand Central - there's a back entrance by way of the Biltmore lobby.

He says that Melville "reaches straight back into the universal, to a blackness and sadness so transcending our own that they are undistinguishable from glory".

By that point, however, you may be too overcome by dancing paintbrushes and cakes, not to mention headgear reaching straight to the roof, to care.

The image, now unobstructed, reaches straight to the rear of the camera and, as the shutter opens, burns into the emulsion of the film — or, these days, registers on a digital sensor.