Sentence examples for were close at hand from inspiring English sources

If only that day were close at hand.

At Company B's headquarters, the sounds of battle were close at hand.

Radical Islamists, from the Abu Sayyaf group and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, were close at hand.

These groups shared an intense conviction that the new heavens and new earth prophesied by Isaiah (Isaiah 65:17) were close at hand.

Brown has also suffered from the loss of his ablest lieutenants who were close at hand from 1997: Ed Balls, Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander.

Precisely how the essential ideas emerged and evolved and when the design was finalized remain unclear, but by the spring of 1956 there was growing confidence that solutions were close at hand.

A friendly mutiny was close at hand.

Luckily, support is close at hand.

Other dangers are close at hand.

And so I looked at what was close at hand.

As it happened, General Petraeus was close at hand.