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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reach .
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Examples
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That her name reached Rome and be called Blessed, undid me; it was the very hand of God that took the hammer and anvil to break me.
INVIDIA Adriana Renescu 2012
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While I was browsing my National Geographic, the title reached out and punched me in the snout.
I'm too young to be this old Holly 2007
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WHEN STEVE BRODIE dived from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886, his name reached into a wretched Negro cabin in Galveston, Texas, and so stirred a ragged Negro boy of twelve that he made up his mind to go to New York and meet Brodie in person.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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WHEN STEVE BRODIE dived from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886, his name reached into a wretched Negro cabin in Galveston, Texas, and so stirred a ragged Negro boy of twelve that he made up his mind to go to New York and meet Brodie in person.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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WHEN STEVE BRODIE dived from the Brooklyn Bridge in 1886, his name reached into a wretched Negro cabin in Galveston, Texas, and so stirred a ragged Negro boy of twelve that he made up his mind to go to New York and meet Brodie in person.
World’s Great Men of Color J. A. Rogers 1947
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The citizens of Tours spoke of him as "an eccentric," but he was greatly annoyed when the term reached his ears, for, good Gascon that he was, and proud of himself, body and mind, he felt that it was singularly humiliating to be treated with so little respect.
Honore de Balzac Albert Keim 1911
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The title reached national prominence through Looney Tunes.
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The title reached national prominence through Looney Tunes.
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In addition, the title reached an estimated 20.5 million home entertainment units net shipped worldwide through the end of the third quarter.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2008
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In addition, the title reached an estimated 20.5 million home entertainment units net shipped worldwide through the end of the third quarter.
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