not at hand
Example Sentences
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The first thing is to make sure that the things you try to avoid are not at hand.
From Slate • Nov. 8, 2018
But sometimes the perfect implement is not at hand; we live half an hour from the nearest hardware store.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2016
But the U.S.-Russia accord, although close, is still not at hand.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2010
Trade Representative Clayton Yeutter, while insisting that a trade war was not at hand, nonetheless called the confrontation a "serious dispute."
From Time Magazine Archive
It will be found convenient to shake the powder from a baking-powder can, the end of which is punched with holes, if a regular powder gun is not at hand.
From Making a Rose Garden by Saylor, Henry H. (Henry Hodgman)
