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The temperature in the middle of the furnace sometimes reaches 1,000 degrees.

Most children stay at home until they reach school age.

So, sixty was a milestone that a lot of people didn't reach.

Dead leaves, branches, and other plant parts, as well as the wastes and bodies of rain forest animals, barely reach the forest floor before they are rapidly decayed by abundant decomposers—bacterial and fungal.

Forest near streams with salmon actually reach maturity faster than other forests.

Any material, including a rocket, must reach this speed before it can leave Earth and go into space.

Now, there are a few different sounds that you can hear on a VLF receiver, because when lightning strikes, the radio waves travel different distances and in different ways before they reach the receiver.

Leatherbacks reach their immense size in a much shorter time than it takes other sea turtles to grow.

They may have appeared to be floating in the water, but in fact they reach all the way to the bottom of the lake.

This is particularly true for trees in the middle and upper latitudes, which tend to attain greater heights on ridges, whereas in the tropics the trees reach their greater heights in the valleys.

In the northern peninsula the elevation is sufficiently low that the ancient Maya were able to reach the water table at deep sinkholes called cenotes, or at deep caves.

More often, we simply cooperate with others to reach some end without endowing the relationship with any larger significance.

Endogenous rivers often do not reach the sea but drain into inland basins, where the water evaporates or is lost in the ground.

They produce a chirpy sound because the higher frequency parts of the wave reach the radio receiver before the lower frequency parts.

When the water reached his waist, he had to start swimming.

The seagrass beds, in turn, dampen wave action, particularly if the blades reach the water surface.

As far as the extraction process the petroleum industry digs deep wells to reach underground oil fields where crude oil has accumulated over a large area and extract between layers of rocks.

We reached the hotel at 7 p.m.

It was dark by the time I reached their house.

But much of the south lies too high above the water table for cenotes or wells to reach down to it.

They travel by a different route to reach their destination.

I can't reach that shelf unless I stand on a chair.

It’s hard to reach all the dust that gathers in the corners.

But if Irwin's rooms were closer to a circle than a square, it would be easier to reach all the dust and dirt with a broom. Right?

Eventually they reached a decision.

You could reach a lot of people by advertising on the buses.

Has the doctor told you how to reach her in emergencies?

Can you reach me that glass of water?

Judy reached into her handbag.

She reached across the desk and shook my hand.

I can't reach.

The light switch was out of reach.

Bertie made a reach for the salt and upset the gravy boat.