How to Use reach in a Sentence

reach

1 of 2 verb
  • The phone cord doesn't reach.
  • She can't reach that far.
  • He couldn't reach the apple, even with a stick.
  • Their land reaches to the river.
  • Their land reaches the river.
  • She couldn't reach the apple. She was too short.
  • We reached California after driving for two days.
  • The thing is, reach comes at a cost.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026
  • The beach club can be reached by lift.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Apr. 2026
  • That streak will reach nine games this week.
    — Mitch Sherman, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • And yet the nadir has still not been reached.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 2 June 2026
  • Goats can't reach above 6 or 7 feet high.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Has Styles reached that point in his life?
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 28 Apr. 2026
  • He can be reached through LinkedIn.
    — Allbusiness, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Ceiling fans are hard to reach.
    — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 14 Feb. 2026
  • That would reach even more people.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Then Vic reached an arm across her thighs and rubbed.
    — Bryan Washington, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Huff reached the latter of those marks this week.
    — Tony East, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • From there, the spa can also be reached by ramp.
    — Kathryn Romeyn, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2025
  • There's still time for an agreement to be reached.
    — ABC News, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Sage Creek to reach the finals.
    — Clark Fahrenthold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The first nine Dodgers reached base in the inning.
    — Bill Plunkett, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
  • The first two batters of the inning had reached base.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Southern wind gusts can reach up to 30 miles per hour.
    — Francesca Pica, jsonline.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • In fact, there isn't a goal location to reach.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 19 May 2026
  • The war has now reached his family.
    — ABC News, 19 May 2026
  • Jurors took two-and-a-half hours to reach the sentence.
    — Doug Myers, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • Kearins, who was reached by phone, declined to comment.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
  • No phone, no tablet, no way for those children to reach the outside world.
    — Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Not all candidates could be reached.
    — Addison Wright, Chicago Tribune, 21 Apr. 2026

reach

2 of 2 noun
  • The ball was just out of reach.
  • Their goal is out of reach.
  • The country's farthest reaches had not been explored.
  • The price alone puts it out of reach.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Feb. 2026
  • That didn’t put the game out of reach.
    — Kansas City Star, 8 Nov. 2025
  • That whole-home reach is the main draw.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 8 June 2026
  • That showed me my face got more reach.
    — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Keep baits out of reach of kids and pets.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Keep the baits out of reach of kids and pets.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 24 May 2026
  • But by then, the game was too far out of reach.
    — The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2025
  • The ball sailed out of reach and out of the end zone.
    — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2026
  • But is Lawrence a reach or the right pick?
    — Jon MacHota, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Neither of these picks felt like a reach.
    — Jon MacHota, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The bill’s reach is not narrow.
    — James R Mason, Hartford Courant, 12 May 2026
  • Like, the game was a little out of reach.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 1 May 2026
  • To match the reach, the highs are higher.
    — Jed Gottlieb, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • The group’s reach has been growing.
    — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Shalit's pop culture reach was wide.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026
  • Those spaces can be hard to see, much less reach.
    — Kait Hanson, Southern Living, 31 Dec. 2025
  • None of this puts SpaceX’s goals out of reach.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, Scientific American, 12 June 2026
  • There’s more to answer for than just racist rhetoric and its reach.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2026
  • But the high cost of living and lack of jobs put that dream out of reach.
    — Mark Banchereau, Fortune, 29 Dec. 2025
  • The Bills went down to kick a field goal, putting the game out of reach.
    — Aaliyan Mohammed, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Sep. 2025
  • YouTube doesn't just create reach.
    — Adam Salacuse, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • Say each word was a bird—alighting briefly, out of reach and then gone again.
    — Leila Chatti september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • There’s a lot of surface area to clean and much of it may be out of reach.
    — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 May 2026
  • Store borax out of reach of children and pets.
    — Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 17 May 2026
  • This was scooping muck from the reaches of his lungs.
    — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • By halftime, the game was already out of reach.
    — Rashad Williams, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • Its reach spans from floor level to two meters high.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026

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