within reach

idiom

: close enough to be touched or picked up : nearby

He kept a dictionary within reach.

: close enough to be achieved

Victory was within reach.

Examples of within reach in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Taylor and editors Richard Comeau and Christian Jensen routinely flip back and forth between archival footage, in which Dion delivered the seemingly impossible, and contemporary footage, in which the impossible is no longer within reach. —

Rich Juzwiak, TIME, 25 June 2024 Wait: Trade three of this team’s best players — when a playoff spot is within reach? —

Barry Svrluga, Washington Post, 25 June 2024 Others, like Arizona and New Hampshire, have a Democratic majority in at least one state legislative chamber within reach. —

Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 17 June 2024 But some of the other goals for Starship, such as recovering and reusing the entire rocket, appear within reach. —

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 6 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for within reach

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