Sentence examples for was close at from inspiring English sources

A friendly mutiny was close at hand.

As it happened, General Petraeus was close at hand.

And so I looked at what was close at hand.

She came to believe that bliss was close at hand — it was inside you.

The match was close at half-time when New Zealand led 12-9, butheyey then blew their opponents away.

The army, having breached the Tigers' defences, said its final victory in a 26-year war was close at hand.

Christians apparently believed that it was useless to work because the end of the world was close at hand.

But Mr. Woodland, convinced that a solution was close at hand, quit graduate school to devote himself to the problem.

One time, however, at a very popular musical, curtain time was close at hand and I was having no luck.

"Last year we went into games undermanned, thinking if it was close at the end, we could win," Paul said.

Many study participants ascribed their renewed risk taking to a growing confidence that a cure was close at hand.