within reach

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within reach

almost possible or available. Everyone says agreement is within reach, but it's hard to believe. The price for the house was almost within reach, but a bit more than they could afford.

Related vocabulary: for the taking

See also: reach, within

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But still I had feared him, blind and helpless and listening, always listening, and I never let his strong arms get within reach of me while I worked. The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-color, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context Eric caught sight of his leering face at one of his boasts--for there was a lull in the game, because no man else wanted to come within reach of Eric's blows. Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker View in context More results

References in classic literature

But still I had feared him, blind and helpless and listening, always listening, and I never let his strong arms get within reach of me while I worked.

The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context

A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-color, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

Eric caught sight of his leering face at one of his boasts--for there was a lull in the game, because no man else wanted to come within reach of Eric's blows.

Robin Hood by McSpadden, J. Walker View in context

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