Use open in a sentence
Sentences starting with open
- Open the door, there! [2]
- Open patches where the sun gets in and goes to sleep, and the winds come so finely sifted that they are as soft as swan's down. [6]
- Open on the table, beside her lay Anatole's letter. [2]
- Open the door, sweet Mrs Quilp! [12]
- Open the Vier Prison! [11]
- Open the gates, open the gates say I, and let us have play with our guns. [11]
- Open the sluices, Mahommed. [11]
- Open the letter--open it quick, and let's know all about it before we stir out of our places. [5]
- Open the gate in the name of Virginia and the Continental Congress! [9]
- Open at All Hours. [5]
Sentences ending with open
- Oh, yes--you said you believed the door was open. [5]
- I married Ham with my eyes open. [9]
- I could have wished to see more of Liverpool, but I found time only to visit the great exhibition, then open. [6]
- And now the whole nation--pulpit and all --will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. [5]
- So Venters, leaving Whitie with the horse, called Ring to his side, and, rifle in hand, worked his way out to the open. [13]
- After a period which was no briefer than that usually occupied by Bob's letters, Cynthia took the other one from her lap, and stared at it in much perplexity before she tore it open. [9]
- We must see whether the towers are properly garrisoned, and charge the sentinels to keep their eyes open. [10]
- I'm not going West with Bantry, but there's three other points that's open. [11]
- Hands clutching money, were thrust aloft out of the jam by men who hoped this eloquent appeal would cleave a road their strugglings could not open. [5]
- The city gates were already open. [10]
Short sentences using open
- There, I'm open with you. [11]
- She flung open the windows. [9]
- It is open still. [11]
- Entering the open sea. [5]
- The door was partly open. [12]
- The door wouldn't open. [5]
- I broke it open. [5]
- The door was open. [4]
- It was always open. [4]
- Her eyes are open. [13]
Sentences containing open two or more times
- She looked out through the open window at the stars and across the open place lying at her feet. [10]
- The housedoor was open and even that of the room in which he had seen the bed was unfastened; he pushed it open with his foot, entered the room, and laid Selene on the vacant couch. [10]
- So I beg of you, I beg of you, to open your hearts and open your purses and remember San Francisco, the smitten city. [5]
- While he tore it open, and hastily looked through its contents, the door was again thrown open and Hierax, the king's trusted friend, appeared on the threshold with a flushed face and hair in disorder. [10]
- To despair means in our case to open the gates, to open the gates means--" "Who is thinking of opening the gates? [10]
- They knew, and I knew, that they could do nothing more than go to the open door, through which they would not be admitted, and that I could walk across the open square to that, and enter alone. [4]
- He sat at his table, which was covered with open law-books and papers, but his eyes were on the distant mountain, and every scent-laden breeze wafted in at his open window seemed the bearer of a tremulous, wistful, yet imperious message--"Come! [9]
- You open your heart to me--let me open mine to you, to see it as it is. [11]
- It is the fiction in Italy that it is always summer; and the people sit in the open market-place, shiver in the open doorways, crowd into corners where the sun comes, and try to keep up the beautiful pretense. [4]
More example sentences with the word open in them
- Not Tardif but yourself is open to the law. [11]
- Now go to your window, if it is a still day, open it, and let the half-sheet of paper drop on the outside. [6]
- If you pull your trunk out six inches from the wall, so that the lid will stay up when you open it, they always shove that trunk back again. [5]
- If you open your mouth against me only once after that time you can't travel so far but I will find you. [5]
- The key of your heart it will open them all: And there's where the darlings dwell! [11]
- If you keep your eyes open, things'll happen that'll bring what you want. [11]
- You must keep your eyes open in a passado with him, but if I can once get to my quarte, tierce, and side-thrust, I have him. [10]
- This alarmed the young fellow, and he was going to make a noise; but I said: "Save your wind; if you open your mouth you are dead, sure. [5]
- I swear to you, that this very Phanes has accepted Cambyses' gold and promised not only to be his guide to Egypt, but to open the gates of your own Greek cities to him. [10]
- I can take you there, and he will meet you with open arms. [10]
- E'fin, the door you shut you can open now, and you can go from the house of Jean Touzel. [11]
- Well, what do you say, friends, to being our own Victualling Board out in the open sea, if we can get there? [11]
- Sure enough, when you saw the shut doors and open windows of those empty houses, all white without in the sun and dark within, and not a human to be seen, you could believe almost anything. [11]
- In 1817, perhaps you remember, the law of wager by battle was unrepealed, and the rascally murderous, and worse than murderous, clown, Abraham Thornton, put on his gauntlet in open court and defied the appellant to lift the other which he threw down. [6]
- I move that you open them all and read every signature that is attached to a note of that sort--and read also the first eight words of the note. [5]
- I heartily thank you for the good wishes you send me to open the year, and I say them back again to you. [6]
- At last he yielded to the longing which urged him, and kissed little John--his, yes, his own son--first on his high, open brow, and then on his red lips. [10]
- The day passed, yet the embers blazed not into the flame of open mutiny. [9]
- They had not yet gone to rest, for loud laughter fell upon her ear from the large sheds, open on all sides, which stood over the dyers' vats. [10]
- I was not yet familiar with life, but I had learned to look about with open eyes. [10]
- Nearly a hundred years ago the crew of the British ship Bounty mutinied, set the captain and his officers adrift upon the open sea, took possession of the ship, and sailed southward. [5]
- That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. [6]
- By the seventh year after our home-coming my hardest cares for the concerns of my trade were overpast, albeit I must even yet keep my eyes open and give brain and body no rest. [10]
- Presently, however, the yacht slid out from the infolding land into an open sea that stretched before them to a silver-lined horizon. [9]
- The old man would scarcely have understood his motives, and it was better for both to part without seeing each other rather than in open strife. [10]
- Later, perhaps, they would relent and see something of their friends, and throw open again the gates of a beautiful place long closed to the world. [9]
- But, woman-like, she would not open the way for him to say anything more definite just yet. [11]
- With Ursel she would be protected from the terrors of solitude, for, besides the old woman's voice, a man's tones also reached her through the open window. [10]
- Such a statement would be open to the charge of exaggeration, and his frame of mind was pessimistic. [9]
- What a new world did that party open to him! [4]
- Engineers are at work, now, turning the open roadstead into a spacious artificial harbor. [5]
- Charley heard her words, for the window was open, and he listened and watched now with an infinite relief in his look. [11]
- Without uttering a word in reply, Ledscha stepped back into the boat, but Hanno plied the oars with the utmost caution and guided the skiff without the slightest sound away from the island to an open part of the water far distant from any shore. [10]
- It was of wood (for use in summer only), octagon shaped, with a thatched roof, open in the centre. [4]
- Hate is manly--and womanly too-- when it is open and brave. [11]
- Private Gellatly, standing without, heard Sergeant Fones say, as he passed into the open air, and slowly bared his forehead to the winter sun: "Exactly. [11]
- And a sister without an open right to the title: the mere fidelity of blood! [11]
- To my kitchen with ye all; and you, messieurs"--turning to M. Aubert and De la Fore- "and you, Mademoiselle, come, know how open is the door and full the table at my Manor of Rozel--St. Ouen's keeps a beggarly board. [11]
- We have done with those hypaethral temples, that were open above to the heavens, but we can have attics and skylights to them. [6]
- Yet, half dead with thirst, barely escaped from drowning, threatened on all sides by fierce hatred, he stood firm, and remained victor also in the open field, after the young King had placed himself at the head of the Egyptians and collected an army. [10]
- The officials intrusted with the examination of the ringleaders had remained during the day in this hastily erected open hut. [10]
- He again turned with tender solicitude to the sufferer, but instantly started to his feet, for the gates were flung wide open and the light of torches and lanterns streamed into the court. [10]
- Well, he began with taking off the case, and so on from one liberty to another, until he got it fairly open, and there were the works, as good as if they were alive,--crown-wheel, balance-wheel, and all the rest. [6]
- His face beamed with pleasure, and there was so much open admiration in his eyes that Margaret, conscious of it to her heart's core, feared that her aunt would notice it. [4]
- Margaret was welcomed with open arms. [4]
- I go in with my eyes open, I am willing to be crushed, if necessary. [9]
- No, I hear with my ears open and my heart close tight. [11]
- An' he died with his teeth so tight shut I couldn't have pried them open with a knife. [13]
- Nicholas was short with curly hair and an open expression. [2]
- It was rather with a tremulous interest than with open hilarity that the rumor was generally received. [6]
- At times she wished she had rebuked Trixton Brent more forcibly, although he was not an easy person to rebuke; and again she reflected that, had she taken the matter too seriously, she would have laid herself open to his ridicule. [9]
- And so the Winged Lion of St. Mark, with the open Bible under his paw, is a favorite emblem in the grand old city. [5]
- The door and windows of the little house were open that balmy afternoon, and the bees were buzzing among the flowers which Cynthia had planted on either side of the step. [9]
- Through the open windows I looked upon a lawn, green with close-shaven turf, set with ancient trees, and variegated with parterres of summer plants in bloom. [4]
- Fling open the window-blinds of the chamber that looks out on the waters and towards the western sun! [6]
- Through the open window the moans of the adjutant could be heard more distinctly. [2]
- Going to the window she opened it also, but she compromised sufficiently to open it at the top instead of at the bottom. [11]
- The single open window resembled a cleft in the rocks, and looked out upon the road. [10]
- A drawing-room, the window of which has been carelessly left open during a dust-storm, is indeed an extraordinary sight. [5]
- Through the open window Honora perceived the form of Joshua asleep in the hammock, his Sunday coat all twisted under him. [9]
- In the open window came the fresh morning breeze, and only the softened sounds of the life outside. [4]
- Through the open window came in the scents of summer, the freshness of a new day. [4]
- At an open window by the door a kindly old face was visible, framed in long, gray hair. [10]
- By the open window at the foot of a bed in the Stay Awhile Hospital a woman gazed into the saffron splendour with an intentness which seemed to make all her body listen. [11]
- Subsequently his brother William wrote him that Commodore Decatur was keeping open for him the office of Chief Clerk in the Navy Department. [4]
- Do what you will with this paper, but open it at once and read. [6]
- Any one who will read his speech of the 22d of last March will see that he there makes an open confession, showing that he set about fixing the institution upon an altogether different set of principles. [7]
- The martyr's crown will open the gates of Heaven to him--who was your father, too, Demetrius. [10]
- Money or beauty will open any door. [5]
- The wise man will keep his ears ever open, but rarely lend it his active hand. [10]
- No one probably will dispute that many gallinaceous birds which live on the open ground, have acquired their present colours, at least in part, for the sake of protection. [1]
- His world is wider, and it is all open to him to go where he will. [4]
- The gate was wide open, and there sat-I knew him at once; who does not?--the Arch Enemy of mankind. [4]
- The folding-doors are wide open to every Protestant to enter all the privileged precincts and private apartments of the various exclusive religious organizations. [6]
- The windows were wide open also, and the scent of June roses came in, with all the languishing sounds of a summer night. [4]
- He is meek, whose soul is open, clear and pure as a mirror, and the greatest philosophers, the noblest minds I have met in life and history were also meek. [10]
- The young fellow whom they call John was in the yard, sitting on a barrel and smoking a cheroot, the fumes of which came in, not ungrateful, through the open window. [6]
- His wife, to whom he had been so faithful in one sense since she had passed into the asylum, had died, and with her going, a new field of life seemed to open up to him. [11]
- To him for whom Apollo, the pure among the gods, and the Muses, friends of beauty, do not open it at the same time with truth, its gates will remain closed, no matter how strongly and persistently he shakes them. [10]
- He had that wholesome, happy look, so uncommon in our arid countrymen,--a look hardly to be found except where figs and oranges ripen in the open air. [6]
- I have a whole set of his works, and am very proud of it, with its gray paper, and open type, and long ff, and orange-juice landscapes. [6]
- Then Herr Pfinzing, who saw that the door of the house was open, asked her to come down. [10]
- The question is, who is going to steal out to the sakkia to- night, to shut the one sluice and open the other? [11]
- The French leaders, who had never heard of Indians who would fight in the open, were, in spite of great opposing numbers, in warrior mood. [11]
- Mistress Kitty Fagan, who had kept her ears pretty wide open, carried them. [6]
- He well knew who had brought all these stories to the others, and answered Xaver's malicious spite with open enmity. [10]
- She wore a white robe with wide, open sleeves, and her arms shone in the dim light as white as her garment. [10]
- A box of white kids was lying open on the table. [6]
- In a little while the road carried us to open, grassy land. [5]
- But your heart, which was open to the Most High, had no room for love. [10]
- The fierceness with which the Moors had rushed to the attack was suddenly cooled; they were bold and adroit for a skirmish, but unequal to the veteran Spaniards in the open field. [4]
- When the gale, which preceded the thunderstorm, blew leaves and straws in through the open window she started violently, imagining that Herr Ortlieb had come to call her to account and her trial was to begin. [10]
- There are plants which open their flowers with the first rays of the sun; there are others that wait until evening to spread their petals. [6]
- That wondrous hymn which Judge Whipple loved, which for years has been the comfort of those in distress, floated softly with the night air out of the open window. [9]
- Hence, the roads which are open to the soul, are numberless as those of the divinity. [10]
- And at length, when the sun was beginning visibly to fall, they came out into an open cut on the western side and saw again the long line of Coniston once more against the sky. [9]
- In the autumn, when the fruit was ripening, she left the gate open, though all her neighbours did the opposite. [10]
- It had prevailed when men were open robbers and filibusters and warriors, giving their lives, if need be, to get what they wanted, making force their god. [11]
- I only complain when I suffocate; you know I don't complain when we are in the open air. [5]
- The Ry started when he saw Jethro Fawe; then he made a motion as though he would seize the intruder, who was too dumbfounded to flee; but he recovered himself, and gazed up at the open window. [11]
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