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How to use at hand in a sentence

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The time is at hand to correct all of these shortcomings as a matter of urgency.
Getting back to the task at hand, he scooped visible wreckage away, wary of the glass shards and smiled in triumph as he spotted his quarry.
My interest quickly wavered from the conversation at hand and with a soft yawn I let my gaze fall back onto the printed words of the book.
If one wanted a different look, perspective or elevation, it's done in a jiffy on readymade steel frames by hundreds of skilled workers at hand.
Designers themselves lift for different purposes, depending on the work at hand.
If your addled brain cannot focus on the real work at hand, busy yourself with menial tasks like cleaning, filing and arranging.
Gently brush aside students' anxiety about not getting the answer by refocusing their attention on the problem at hand.
How does this play into the subject at hand, which is the Supreme Court and justices?
Bags are a girl's best friend, allowing women to keep their must-have possessions close at hand.
Hence time becomes worldly, world-time, a time within which everything present at hand or ready to hand has its place.
Against all this, Montanism called the Church to tighten the reigns and repent, for the kingdom of God was now finally at hand.
The commanding general wishes to talk to her himself, but it is of low priority, with the fight so close at hand.
But this advice comes too late for you, my dear woman, and we must deal with the situation at hand.
It isn't easy being a red-hot lover these days, but take heart, help is at hand for those with a penchant for penning a love poem.
She was gazing into the mirror, not really paying attention to the task at hand when a knock sounded at the door.
I at least had the satisfaction of startling the idiot out of his numb trance before I knuckled down to the task at hand.
I love having plenty of little game devices and utilities at hand, you never know when you might need plastic bags, spare dice or writing pads.
Even at this hour there were usually at least two secretaries at hand to take down the words in relays.
The weaponry used also has to be seen in terms relative to the conflict at hand.
Because in proceeding thus we are only collecting by historical methodology the definitions at hand and resolving them into a general formula.
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The time will come, and it is close at hand, When I shall wander into homelessness.
They scuttled into the nearest seats at hand like a bevy of startled partridges.
Dont you be alarmed, he said solicitously, I shall be at hand in case of trouble.
His fishing tackle, the pride of his young life, was neatly rolled in oiled silk and stood near at hand.
For instance, all the wrens except our house wren seem to use about the best material at hand for their nests.
And I heard close at hand the call of an owl, as like the whimper of a child as ever howlet's vesper mocked.
Miss biles was busy counting out the cash, but no one was at hand to take it from her.
The project at hand is to extract the newly discovered deposits of pitchblende on these satellites of Jupiter.
A mass of data is already at hand, and in process of sorting and correlating.
Espying the bright fountain near at hand, she hastened thither, and scooped up a portion of its water, in a cup of birchen bark.
By means of the electrical check experiments, however, a method for determining the hydrothermal equivalent is at hand.
A crisis was at hand, and all depended on the hygienic regeneration of the city.
Make us a spurtle tae burn it wi, then, said a voice apparently close at hand.
I thank you, Captain, I shall use my own steed, which is waiting for me close at hand.
They were all listening idly, inattentively, to a cheap, metallic-toned gramophone that occupied a table near at hand.
Perhaps it is only men like this man, whose souls are stone-blind, that cannot see dimly the hidden shipwreck at hand.
Have at hand some more cider ready boiled, to thin the apple butter in case you should find it too thick in the kettle.
The inkle was a favourite pedlar-sold tape of the day, probably more at hand and more to the purpose than packthread.
We might yet find them near at hand, with trailing bridles, cropping the grass.
There are very few data at hand concerning the discovery of the insecticide properties of pyrethrum.
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