How to use "reaching" in a sentence

Sentences

Then, reaching for his stick, he said, 'Go to Hell!'

She has an oar in her hands, and she is reaching it out to him.

She closed her eyes and imagined herself lying beside him, reaching for him in the dark, touching, touching, moving against him, into the shelter of his arms

"I figure you've got the wrong place," Tom said, stepping out of the doorway, into the garage, reaching for the button that would raise the big door.

"You're reaching, grasping for straws."

but he's reaching out to me." She struggled to explain the understanding that had come to her in the diner

he's reaching out..

He has some power, and he's reaching out, trying to tell me he's alive, asking me to find him and save him

"Maybe he doesn't feel close enough to Michael to try reaching him

He thrust it between two of the side rails, and he opened his small weak hand beseechingly, reaching for love, trying desperately to touch her.

On the Saturday evening, at Waterloo station, he learned that an accident prevented trains from reaching Woking

But my fixed idea of reaching Leatherhead would not let me rest, and in the evening I went out again

And suddenly I heard a shout and saw a long tentacle reaching over the shoulder of the machine to the little cage on its back