near at hand

idiom

: close enough to reach easily

Be sure to have a fire extinguisher near at hand.

Examples of near at hand in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Reports in The Athletic and other outlets (including Deadline) in recent days suggested a resolution was possibly near at hand. —Dade Hayes, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025

But one obvious answer is that attention is a limited resource, and its apportionment to Iran and Hezbollah, in preference to Hamas and the Palestinian issue near at hand, mirrored Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s worldview. —Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 11 July 2025

Part of what startled Fitzgerald’s generation about their studio experience was how near at hand the real bad guys could be. —Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 9 June 2025

And a starkly apocalyptic interpretation of the New Testament is always near at hand. —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025

Often, the reprisals would be meted out on prisoners of war, who were near at hand and could easily be killed. —Oona A. Hathaway, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024

Rhymes for near at hand

• ampersand
• beforehand
• behindhand
• bottomland
• contraband
• countermand
• dixieland
• fairyland
• fatherland
• firebrand
• hinterland
• motherland