How To Use Open In A Sentence

  • Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
  • Management claimed the lockout was a temporary measure and that the plant would be reopened on May 9.
  • Note that you'll be able to find the demonstration projects themselves as open-source projects on the companion site to the column (see Resources).
  • I didn't open my mouth until he talked himself out.
  • The scale of the economic gulf between the two parties came as two polls yesterday showed that the election remained wide open. Times, Sunday Times
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  • The right back found himself in unfamiliar territory in the opposing penalty area after a swift exchange of passes that opened up Reading's defence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sodium thiopental was used by most U.S. states as part of a lethal injection combination, but many have switched to an alternative drug called pentobarbital amid an ongoing shortage. The Seattle Times
  • The baby grows fine hair, fingernails and teeth, and the eyes open and close.
  • Sony Pictures Animation has a full slate of films including the mouth-watering 3D comedy Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which opened as the #1 movie in North America on September 18, Hotel Transylvania, now in pre-production and, in association with Columbia Pictures, The Smurfs, now in production. Anton Yelchin and Fred Armisen Join The Smurfs | /Film
  • Some lucky local with an open fire had determined the evening warranted a little extra cheer, more than the central heating could provide, and had lit a small blaze on his hearth.
  • Neither of them sugar-coat the ups and down of working in the industry, but they will open your eyes a great deal about the false assumptions that you're making.
  • The beak is smoth, black, convex and cultrated; one and 1/8 inches from the point to the opening of the chaps and 3/4 only uncovered with feathers; the upper chap exceeds the other a little in length. a few small black hairs garnish the sides of the base of the upper chap. the eye is of a uniform deep sea green or black, moderately large. it's legs feet and tallons are white; the legs are an inch and a 1/4 in length and smoth; four toes on each foot, of which that in front is the same length with the leg including the length of the tallon, which is 4 lines; the three remaining toes are The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
  • We berate those who cross the line and leave the immature and underdeveloped open to the physical abuse of contact and collision sports.
  • There are two main approaches: one is a synthetic plug the same shape as a cork that can be placed in the top of the bottle in the same way as a cork and removed with a corkscrew, so preserving the ritual of opening a bottle of wine.
  • The lower opening is formed by the twelfth thoracic vertebra behind, by the eleventh and twelfth ribs at the sides, and in front by the cartilages of the tenth, ninth, eighth, and seventh ribs, which ascend on either side and form an angle, the subcostal angle, into the apex of which the xiphoid process projects. II. Osteology. 4. The Thorax
  • Less than a minute later he had gone past the courts, down a stairwell and opened the fire door.
  • A fisherman's son opened this beachside restaurant, which stretches down into the sand. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is the failure of the diaphragmatic pinchcock to open, as in the normal deglutitory cycle, rather than a spasmodic tightness, that obstructs the food. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery
  • So I opened each pod one by one, plucking the beans inside.
  • Or is the idea of foreign policy beyondmilitary commitmentsso far off the radar that when the polls open, everything will hinge on the pitch-and-toss of national concerns? And Now, The Choice « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
  • They now leave the door open so that Carol Ann can go in there on her own and have a whiz.
  • He opens the door for me, and I slide in, scooting over to save him a trip.
  • Italian is rich in broad open vowels and liquid consonants.
  • In more traditional settings, people wear boubous, loose-fitting cotton tunics with large openings under the arms.
  • I passed plunging gorges, streams in spate, riverbanks ripped open, fields flooded, a brown soup drowning the track.
  • And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either. The Sun
  • Open, and I was quietly confident that I would have a chance, said Leaney, who was forced to change caddies after his original caddie, Justin Hoyle, fell ill after the first round. USATODAY.com - Leaney's second at U.S. Open earns PGA Tour card
  • The virus can actually destroy those white blood cells, leaving the body wide open to attack from other infections.
  • We will be watching them very closely as we value our green open land and believe this could be phase two of the development.
  • Open pores are more affected by rubbing or abrasion, causing these fabrics to wear out sooner.
  • Prissy, looking up, saw her and her mouth opened to yell.
  • Both the reception and the restaurant areas had a very open, uncluttered, look about them.
  • 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
  • RHP Brandon Lyon parlayed his surprising spring performance into the opening day closer job, supplanting RHP Greg Aquino.
  • The market opened 100 booths selling South Korean clothes on 2,600 square meters of floor last August.
  • As Locke and Jean stumbled to their feet, the door on the wall opposite the window slammed open, and in stepped a broad-shouldered man with the slablike muscles of a stevedore or a smith. Archive 2008-07-01
  • Olivia notes the direction of his gaze, and realizes her robe has fallen open again.
  • She was certainly generous and open to letting people use the mimeo and the space.
  • The relationship between a woman and her clinician should be built on trust, and the benefits and the risks of a procedure such as an episiotomy must be openly discussed to ensure truly informed consent.
  • I boxed, swam, sailed, rode horses, lived in the open an arrantly healthful life, and passed life insurance examinations with flying colours. Chapter 29
  • You are welcome to visit the school at any time; we have an open-door policy.
  • For shade, the ramada, a classic freestanding, open-air structure, is still a common feature in desert gardens.
  • Our birthright is the propensity to dream, dance, and evolve. - Boing Boing
  • an open fire
  • He sat there passively, content to wait for his father to make the opening move.
  • Green styles this sequence like the opening credits of a 1970s cop show, freeze-framing on Chris as he leaps over a fence and zooming the titles across the screen.
  • Which means making sure I'm near the front of the line on opening day and a systematic approach to acquisition.
  • This nifty little thriller opens with the arresting image of a nebbishy accountant being dangled over the side of a bridge.
  • There was open laughter and catcalling by the end.
  • This day wilt thou either bring back in triumph the gory head and spoils of Aeneas, and we will avenge Lausus 'agonies; or if no force opens a way, thou wilt die with me: for I deem not, bravest, thou wilt deign to bear an alien rule and a Teucrian lord.' The Aeneid of Virgil
  • Adele brushes her perfectly manicured fingertips atop the cold, smooth metal of the letter opener.
  • An open casement window provides the painted studio's interior light.
  • The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
  • Her wrists were bound together with rope, and so were her ankles, her neck open to the air and the world, and her entire body was in a guillotine, the blade lingering high above.
  • I've had one letter opener seized, two Swiss army knives.
  • That's because Olympic contests are played on a wider ice rink that opens up the game and gives the elite players space to be creative.
  • Leave the inner tent door open a fraction, even if you don't have mesh.
  • Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation. Wayne Dyer 
  • He swung the door wide open in a parody of welcome.
  • The water vascular system of the sea stars open up at the madreporite, a perforated opening in the central part of the animal.
  • And while they were in the midst of their banqueting, the door was suddenly burst open, and the Dagda stood there, with his men.
  • A similar attempt at reconciling Absolute Idealism and monadism had been made by Lotze, and in both cases it remains an open question whether this is not pre-established harmony in disguise. Francis Herbert Bradley
  • Other freight and passenger operators will have open access rights to this network.
  • All who disagreed openly were barred from the radical teach-in at the public school.
  • Their bodies are not distinctly segmented, but an important feature of their anatomy is the carapace, a folded shell-like structure which covers the animal and opens both ventrally and posteriorly.
  • She used a knife to prise open the lid.
  • She said she opened one of the books and saw the name Eileen Adams written inside. FOXNews.com
  • We usually open family presents with my BIL, SIL and nephew on Christmas morning.
  • It will be open to the public this spring. Times, Sunday Times
  • There's a reason that those invites a fortunate few received, allowing them to attend the après-opening private reception at the latest, greatest Place To Be, the Feral Cheerleader, are tinctured with a hue you cannot find at Sherwin-Williams. James Scarborough: "Stay Free© or Die: The Menstrual Hut Project," International City Bungalow Gallery, Long Beach, California
  • I returned to my hotel to sit at the window and watch the grand son-et-lumière that night, the opening show of the south-west monsoon.
  • It's safe to say that Burke Lake anglers have caught literally tons of bluegills, crappie, largemouth bass and other stocked gamefish since it opened.
  • I open my eyes and there are her deep, cold, violet, malicious eyes, staring at me.
  • How about how the door of your car opens as you back up from the burnout to let burnout smoke escape the cockpit?
  • The opening Thursday of SugarHouse Casino, Pennsylvania's 10th casino, comes after years of community protests and delays.
  • He beat on the man's muscular arm, trying to pull himself free as the man opened up the door.
  • I throw a suitcase on the bed and pop it open, and begin to stuff clothes into drawers and hang them in the wardrobe.
  • The openings came amid fresh political uncertainty in the country. Times, Sunday Times
  • A stomach-teasing aroma of stewed food was in the air, and the thrumming of African bass guitar wafted through the open window.
  • A thin sheet of tissue with 1 or more holes in it called the hymen partially covers the opening of the vagina.
  • Sinosteel, another Chinese-owned metals conglomerate, has plans to develop a massive opencast iron ore mine in the Weld range, a ridge of hills 400 miles north-east of Perth. Australia leases out mineral-rich land as China's hunger for resources grows
  • Behind the scenes: Emerald City Supporters big opening night tifo banner Examiner California Headlines
  • Some openly jeered and shouted in disgust when the final vote tally was announced.
  • Most, but not all, of the closed handle backsaws appear to be tenon saws while most, but not all, of the open handle backsaws appear to be dovetail saws.
  • Open source software is often portrayed as a breakthrough in the free and open exchange of intellectual property, without precedent in the prevailing global capitalist mentality.
  • Although _Pyetushkov_ shows us, by a certain open _naïveté_ of style, that a youthful hand is at work, it is the hand of a young master, carrying out the realism of the 'forties' -- that of Gogol, Balzac, and A Desperate Character and Other Stories
  • The bold provisionality and elegant openness of Merz's installations, as well as his own freewheeling personal presence and oracular writings, helped make him the most widely recognized of all the Arte Povera artists.
  • We talk more openly when we feel easy and relaxed.
  • A study session held by the Beijing government for leaders of the "open" Church – organized as a sight-seeing tour for the first time – is set to conclude tomorrow.
  • And strips of cloth had been tied around the reserve chute so that it could not be opened either. The Sun
  • (How far can he get without a license or credit cards .. or the help of close relations?) opened with testimony from the "jailbird" and his arresting officers Baltimore Crime
  • The petticoat is very easy to make, too ... just cut the fabric to the right length (front & back piece), stitch sides, add lace at the bottom, sew a casing at the top for elastic & then add elastic & stitch opening closed! Year Around Feminine Fashions
  • open to suggestions
  • By the early 1990s, Disney and Warner Brothers studios opened retail stores selling animation art.
  • But the howling vacuum had opened up inside her again, with its endless vistas of nothingness and no return, the harlequinade of grasping, painted lovers. Shortcut Man
  • Spain dominated possession in the opening minutes and looked to have the measure of an uncertain Dutch backline. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
  • This dominion not only extends over the open seas, but also over all creeks, arms of the sea, havens, ports, and tide-rivers, as far as the reach of the tide, around the coasts of the kingdom.
  • A drop-dead-gorgeous crowd was tangoing away in a makeshift, open-air amphitheater.
  • Field tickets give access to the open terracing of the stadium.
  • He clomped into the kitchen and opened the dishwasher.
  • Mr. SOARIES: Robert Tilton, Robert Tilton is a so-called televangelist who was discovered to have gotten prayer requests accompanied by money and then when an investigative reporter went behind his church he found all of those prayer requests dumped unopened. NPR Topics: News
  • As the wetlands falls away, pipelines are exposed to the vagaries of open water.
  • The relationship between the street and the galleries inside is not as intrusively immediate as is suggested by the open-ended, perpendicular orientation.
  • Through the open doorway, he heard the voice of Aline Fulke but her words were unclear.
  • Open confession is good for the soul. 
  • At the bottom of the staircase a door opens into the white painted kitchen, where a small cooker supports an oversized kettle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Still in shorts and trainers, I climb the ladder and open the hatch. Times, Sunday Times
  • The polls were kept open an extra four hours because the turnout was so high. The Sun
  • In their pursuit of their rights, including to marry, they have been determined but have made their campaign fun, lively, colorful and open to others.
  • His interest was in opening the nightclub next to the theater, in the abandoned Trailways bus depot.
  • Stewart's pigeon house almost succumbed under a drift six feet high, and half the pigeons escaped where the weight of sand forced an opening in the galvo.
  • He has become gruff and cold, a far cry from the playful, expansive carouser and rabble-rouser of the film's opening scenes. Come and Get It
  • Stanhope sees his openness as a counter to society's hypocrisy about such subjects.
  • (His hairy chest was open to what poets call the 'wined', In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses
  • The artist uncrated it on a broad gallery that opened off the dining room, apparently for the admiration of friends and family.
  • Also, if Shilpa is subjected to more teasing from Jade's crew, she may well go postal and slash all the Celebrity Big Brother housemates' throats open with a breadknife. Big Brother Celebrity Hijack Betting Odds: Double Eviction, Emilia Out?
  • Iëna then went in advance, and sought the open plain, whereupon the child resembling the mother would cry out and complain, because she disliked an _open_ path. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians
  • Rescue workers had to use special equipment to cut open the steel doors.
  • This week's retail sales and events include grand opening parties, trunk shows, and parking lot sales for everything from clothing and accessories, to furniture, textiles, and giftware. Los Angeles Shopping Events and Sales Round-Up
  • The closing date for drama is Saturday, February 14 and the dance competitions are open for entry on the day.
  • In July 1913 Bohr was appointed as a docent in Copenhagen.
  • Jools Holland is playing an open-air concert near Tunbridge Wells soon.
  • Experience can contribute to connoisseurship, but only if the consumer tastes with attention and an open mind.
  • She struggled with the handle before swinging the door open, diving in and slamming it shut again.
  • They have an open client-server architecture and manage heterogeneous workstations, servers and host computers linked via a local area network.
  • You run around the garden scooping air into the open end and then you tie a knot. Times, Sunday Times
  • Flight Through the Ages, which opened with a picture of Icarus and his wax wings, melting when he flew too close to the sun. ANASTASIA KRUPNIK (3-IN-1)
  • The study found that only 36 percent of teens know how to open a savings account, and even less know how to balance a checkbook.
  • A pickup truck was circling the pond, which flushed some birds out of the reeds and into the open water.
  • The insects are forming thick clouds near the ground, and they carpet the inside of the car when the doors are cracked open.
  • She slowly walks to the small open fireplace and carefully lights the incense and stands it in the ash. She steps back with her palms held in prayer and begins to chant.
  • If you can get people to relax, they're more likely to open their mouths and talk.
  • Thousands of people flocked to the Malton Racing Stables Open Day, when 18 stables around Malton and Norton opened their doors to a fascinated public.
  • A fine perspective opened out before us.
  • Flynn said Hilton denied owning a small plastic "bindle" containing 0.8 grams of cocaine powder that the police lieutenant said fell out when Hilton opened the purse to get a tube of lip balm. CBS3.com - Philadelphia's Source For Breaking News, Weather, Traffic and Sports
  • We are hoping that the pier will be fully opened within two weeks but some of the rides may take longer to replace.
  • I based myself at Ibsen's, an art-filled eco-friendly hotel on fashionable Nansensgade, an easy walk from the city center and after viewing artwork at the National Gallery of Denmark, I lunched at Aamann's, specializing in a modern take on the traditional open-faced Danish sandwich called the smorrebrod. Jill Fergus: Copenhagen Dining Beyond Noma
  • Opening this file. html from Seamonkey or from Firefox browsers hold only text and a text reference ole0. bmp, that is no image visible. Undefined
  • They were an imposing foursome from the opening tip. USATODAY.com - Huskies run over Rams
  • In Thinking, a crocheted openwork of rusted wire bursts from a metal drum.
  • He threw his weight at the door and it burst open.
  • Hats off to two enterprising ladies who have opened up a ladies and gents hair salon at Cloneen.
  • Branching out: A northern store chain is helping to open branches of a different kind.
  • A brand new entertainment venue in Wyre has been unveiled with a glittering gala opening show.
  • It followed as one consequence of these letters from Florence that Nora was debarred from the Italian scheme as a mode of passing her time till some house should be open for her reception. He Knew He Was Right
  • Five minutes down the tarmac and we take an open and contouring track south-east.
  • Here a general murmur arose, and the teacher, opening her lips for the first time, ejaculated — “Silence, mesdemoiselles!” The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
  • Paul Brown Stadium opened in 2000 after years of friendly persuasion and arm-twisting.
  • He is also considering converting an army barracks and possibly a mental hospital into new open prisons. Times, Sunday Times
  • I was out buying popcorn while the opening credits of Dil Chahta Hai rolled, so I missed the name of the person who wrote the dialogues for this film.
  • The haze of summer hung sweetly over the opening. Times, Sunday Times
  • Leo got a door to pucker open, and they walked out into the light of a fusion-lamp sun. METAPLANETARY
  • The living room ran into the dining room which was overlooked by the open kitchen: all white. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
  • He was staring down at the diary on the floor, which had fallen open when it had landed.
  • The door opened and Dr Aziz, a tall cadaverous man entered. A SEASON IN HELL
  • He tried other doors: one opened into a former barn, now a workshop.
  • The party last night maintained its refusal to reopen the investigation. Times, Sunday Times
  • The opening door woke Roger, startled Patrick and gave the cat an unwonted and sudden attack of conscience. MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
  • We're in the suburbs surrounded mostly by fields and open land so we don't get the same amount of dust.
  • The patrons' tables are constantly resupplied with clear, cool, tart pomegranate juice and hot, flat white bread extracted with long-handled wooden spatulas from the ovens through openings in the walls.
  • The valve can be adjusted from fully open to fully closed.
  • He inserted the key in the lock but could not open the door.
  • Donnelly's PNAC report -- a blueprint followed faithfully by the Bush Administration -- openly yearned for a "new Pearl Harbor" that would "catalyze" the American people into adopting PNAC's global militarist agenda wholesale. Undefined
  • There was a flicker of interest in Latham in the opening moments of the not-very-great debate - when he tackled the other unmentionable issues, Iran and the war against terror.
  • That should have spelled the end of the convertible, except for one thing: The open car with its sun-baked, wind-blown passengers became a symbol of youth, freedom, and sexuality.
  • Then she went to the window and threw it open, looking down with despair at the six-storey drop to the courtyard below. TREASON KEEP
  • When does the museum open.
  • How often I have I known him affect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest himself with a temporary degree of popularity; while, in fact, his heart was bursting to witness what he called the degeneracy of the times, the decay of activity among the aged, and the want of zeal in the rising generation. Redgauntlet
  • We have been pretty open-handed now in facilitating the development of Chinese technology even for military purposes.
  • So here's an open invitation for him to enjoy it. Times, Sunday Times
  • I sucked and gargled and gulped my man down until his toes opened and closed and he started grabbing and clutching the sheets, moaning out my name. Deep Throat Diva
  • The hotel first opened its doors in 1849 and was given a full refit four years ago. The Sun
  • Judges were in open revolt after being forced to free more dangerous criminals because of the cells shortage. The Sun
  • With a quick catch and lift, he passed Michael up and into unseen hands outstretched from the iron wall of the ship, and paddled ahead to an open cargo port. CHAPTER 2
  • Suddenly the door opened and a man burst in exclaiming: ‘Trescothick's gone first ball!’
  • She started the year winning three qualifying rounds of the Australian Open.
  • Indeed, literature is full of fabulations wherein the world of a rat or dog is opened up magically to our vision.
  • But the relationship with Pataki deteriorated precipitously in recent days as McCaughey Ross openly defied him.
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  • Just then the door opened and in stepped a wiry bearded man, who was mumbling to himself and skittering around cattishly.
  • The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag.
  • The opening chapters are undeniably powerful. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gas pressure of BF is used as the load on springs so that nitrogen sealed cave opening can automatically adjust itself, seals on the key spots of distributor are designed.
  • She used a knife to prise open the lid.
  • Opening the shutters to the world may also have exacted a price. Times, Sunday Times
  • Some species with large mouths and small bills, such as nighthawks, whip-poor wills, and the aptly named frogmouth owls, open their bills wide as they fly into insects, and the prey is captured in the birds’ gaping maws.
  • Heya guy i own the film Fight Club and every time i watch it i always catch a new part of the plot its that well made do you guys find this one of the most eye opening and phycological films ever made Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
  • A loose gown, open in front to reveal an underskirt, worn by European women in the 7th and 8th centuries.
  • The solid rank of police officers lining the courtroom opened to let them pass.
  • With an open goal in front of him, Wiltord sliced his shot wide of the left post.
  • A dirty orange glow escapes from half-open hatches, grilled vents, and small square windows of grimy glass, and the clangour of beaten metal can be heard far out into the endless snowstorm. Weapon Of Choice short story – excerpt « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
  • Math books, unlike any you have ever seen before, flip open.
  • Trying to stop shops opening at the weekend is rather like banning cafés from opening for lunch. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the small main lobby, there was an elevator with an out-of-order sign on it older than I was, an open door to a stairway, and a directory with little plastic letters spelling out the names of bail bondsmen and repo services on black felt. Free Excerpt 2/5: Book of Secrets by Chris Roberson
  • The market re-opened for the sale of fat cattle and sheep.
  • Stay away from open-weave linens and other stretchy fabrics.
  • Later, I open the envelope and pull out a blow-up of the wedding photo.
  • The play opened last week to universal acclaim.
  • Windsor is open to visitors when the Royal Family is not in residence.
  • There is a range of prices open to you to charge for your services.

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