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Reach out   /ritʃ aʊt/   Listen
Reach out

verb
1.
Move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense.  Synonym: reach.
2.
Reach outward in space.  Synonyms: extend, poke out.
3.
Attempt to communicate.






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"Reach out" Quotes from Famous Books



... ponies will hang on like grim death and mighty glad I'll be when the trees on the first slopes reach out their boughs to hide us. About ...
— The Great Sioux Trail - A Story of Mountain and Plain • Joseph Altsheler

... of the children in her arms, and kissed and soothed it; and Henderson, after he had thrown a blanket at the bottom of the door to keep out the drifting rain, sat with his back to it, bracing it against the wind, lest the frail staple should give way. He managed some way to reach out and lay hold of the other little ones, and got them in his arms,—a boy, so tiny he seemed hardly human, and a girl somewhat sturdier. They cuddled in his arms, and clutched his clothes with their frantic little hands, and the three sat so while the earth ...
— A Mountain Woman and Others • (AKA Elia Wilkinson) Elia W. Peattie

... was dead. They could do nothing for her. But Mills still lived. The sound of his labored breathing filled the room. He had shifted a little, so that he could reach out and lay one hand on the dead woman's face, where it rested, with a caressing touch. A red pool ...
— The Hidden Places • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... shake the hands of this strange couple. The Leopard Woman carried herself with the ease and poise of one accustomed to receiving homage. She had drawn near Kingozi again, and managed to reach out ...
— The Leopard Woman • Stewart Edward White et al

... are, where we are, to give, not to get. Whether in far-off China or maybe in some disillusioned commonplace home town, we will be winning men to Jesus all the time by direct touch. The mastering thought will be to let the wondrous Spirit reach out through us, freely and fully, unhindered by anything in us, and so touch every one whom ...
— Quiet Talks with World Winners • S. D. Gordon


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