How to use "reaches" in a sentence

It is almost dark when Gerry reaches the farm

When he reaches the red steps, he is hot and sweaty

Brandon tries not to think as he walks through the snow that reaches up to his waist

Several blocks to the north, an ugly column of smoke rose into the twilight sky from what was left of Tina's house, roiling, night-black, the upper reaches tinted around the edges by the last pinkish rays of the setting sun.

The deeper reaches of the mountains