VERB
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become available
an opportunity opened up -
open up an area or prepare a way
She pioneered a graduate program for women students - talk freely and without inhibition
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cause to open or to become open
Mary opened the car door -
start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning
open a business -
make available
This opens up new possibilities -
become open
The door opened
How To Use open up In A Sentence
- In a healthy pregnancy, cells that come from the embryo's placenta-called trophoblast cells-move into the walls of the uterus and help to open up maternal arteries, thereby increasing the available blood and nutrient supply. Slate Articles
- The water vascular system of the sea stars open up at the madreporite, a perforated opening in the central part of the animal.
- To feel safe and secure in your relationship, you'll have to open up and communicate how you feel.
- You said you were going to open up everything on Tuesday -- you owe it to me to tell me first! MURDER SONG
- Check out the pincushion hakea with its pointy-tipped nuts like fairy bells; the teak pods that open up like wooden flowers, and the large woody pears with slightly furry grey skin that's very soft to the touch.
- He also hopes that Taiwan will open up the market for foreign contractors in public procurement projects.
- When these combine they open up a new range of possibilities on which Darwinian evolution can act.
- They were put to work in remote areas to fell trees, mine the country's mineral wealth and open up the vast and empty land tracts of the far north and east.
- Cameron and Hague both continue to shilly-shally on this topic which makes many suspect that they will seek to avoid the issue if they can, knowing that a vote then to reject the Treaty would open up the whole issue of our membership of the EU at a stroke. Archive 2008-03-02
- Reconstructing new filial duty of pluralistic society and emphasizing that it is possible to open up to Christianity.