How To Use Wide-open In A Sentence

  • These offered wide-open vistas of rolling farmland, old wooden barns and silos, all surrounded by stunning foliage.
  • McGrady, who scored 25 points, launched an airball from the right wing that fell into the hands of Pat Garrity, who somehow missed a wide-open layup at the buzzer. National Basketball Association - Knicks vs. Magic
  • Then he lifted his head up again and turned his gaze to meet my wide-open eyes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The image of Death’s wide-open mouth evokes the devouring void, the very nothingness that comes with the cessation of consciousness.
  • Much of the prairie land in the United States has been developed or converted to agricultural purposes, leaving only a few state and national parks as a reminder of their wild, wide-open past.
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  • Can't the world conspire to ambush you, putting up dead ends and roadblocks where once there were wide-open personal spaces?
  • A nucellar dome has been formed in the massive nucellar cap and the integument has overgrown the nucellus and formed a wide-open micropyle.
  • For mile after mile, there was nothing but wide-open spaces, with almost no signs of human habitation.
  • These offered wide-open vistas of rolling farmland, old wooden barns and silos, all surrounded by stunning foliage.
  • The utriculus and sacculus are in wide-open communication with each other and have almost become one. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior
  • In addition, the client wanted wide-open floors unobstructed by columns or shear walls in order to maximize net sellable floor area and allow buyers to customize the layout of their units.
  • Rob Fiocca for The Wall Street Journal Key prerequisites are a spit, a stack of hardwood or at least 60 pounds of lump charcoal, a bit of space, a meat thermometer, a few generous lengths of stainless steel wire and a wide-open day An hour later we lowered the pig, which had b een brined, stuffed and trussed to the spit, over our mound of hickory and maple embers. The Pig Event
  • The rematch, in which the English title relinquished by Fury will also be on the line, should settle any disputes and will help shape the future of the wide-open domestic division. BoxingScene.com
  • She stood before the wide-open doors to the stable, eying a chestnut steed that had greeted her with a short nicker.
  • Elsewhere, a Nevada Northern train above chugs through wide-open scrub near the copper-mining town of Ely. Photo-Op: In Full Plume
  • Ippolito argues that the wide-open nature of the Internet accounts for its vitality.
  • He should prove best in a wide-open contest. The Sun
  • It was a suitable thrilling finish to a wide-open race. The Sun
  • One of the most prevalent crimes in wide-open areas like Wiltshire is theft from cars.
  • Scraps of his daily life lay scattered all over chairs and chests of drawers; his black portmanteau yawned wide-open like a coffin; his white linen was carefully laid on the top of his black suit, which showed slight traces of wear and tear at the knees and elbows. Married
  • But on the first play of the fourth quarter, Beuerlein's slant pass to a wide-open Smith was behind him.
  • Walk it off along the vast, wide-open beaches while watching the impossibly tanned volleyball players. Times, Sunday Times
  • Perhaps, although it was a wide-open laissez-faire attitude towards man's ineradicable taste for forbidden pleasures that brought it to a boil. A Little Evil Will Do You Good: Kansas City Jazz
  • Those sentiments were fully aired during the wide-open era we call the decadent sixties. Seriously Seeking Solutions (Male sexism: cause and cure)
  • Those were paybacks for when they dropped the wide-open ones along the sideline.
  • He said its scent on her skin reminded him of wide-open, green fields covered with sweet flowers.
  • M that he began to gain recognition as an offensive coordinator with an effective wide-open attack and the ability to groom quarterbacks.
  • There were tall trees, wide-open plains, meandering streams, babbling brooks, rolling hills, and smart, intelligent people.
  • left the doors wide-open
  • It looks a wide-open race. The Sun
  • To solve the problem, she built a new, underground area with lots of wide-open, multiuse space. Open Spaces Transform Danish Education
  • He mostly takes people out in groups of ones and twos, and normally it's in a wide-open space.
  • Fit from hurdling, the five-year-old should have a better chance than most in what looks a wide-open race.
  • In the electronic republic, there needs to be assurance of a media environment of wide-open access to send and receive.
  • He was already ransacking the still faintly-perfumed dining-room for matches, and had just succeeded in relighting the still-warm lamp, when he heard her quiet step in the porch, even felt her peering in, in the gloom, with all her years 'trickling customariness behind her, a little dubious of knocking on a wide-open door. The Return
  • Celtics point guard Rajon Rondo threw the ball away while looking for a wide-open Allen on a breakaway—but Rondo did acquit himself nicely when he inbounded an alley-oop straight to Garnett for a dunk that cut the Knicks' lead to one and set up Allen's game-winner. Boston Snatches Opener From Knicks
  • Memories of dust, droving, campfires and wide-open stretches of bushland came flooding back for Alf McCarley last month.
  • The Sixers grabbed the lead for the first time just seconds earlier on a rare trifecta by a wide-open Eric Snow.
  • Out in the Australian wilderness and the wide-open spaces, the only equivalent to a fox hunt that I can think of is a kangaroo shoot.
  • Silsden were 3-0 up and able to use the wide-open spaces to stretch the ten men of Carlton.
  • One purpose of environmental literature, as literature, is to express not just the joy of the wide-open spaces, but also what it feels like to be ‘nuked’ in southern Utah, be a victim of toxics, be deprived of an ancestral place in the sun.
  • Scared witless , Pian-pian is simply frozen in her dance pose like a statue, as she continues to stare stupidly at the two just-fallen guards with wide-open eyes.
  • This was explained to us by a priest, in Italianized French of the most mongrel description, translated by me and listened to by Christine and Lisa with eager faces and wide-open eyes. In Château Land
  • Push the Elantra beyond a canter, though, and the engine's creamy smoothness gives way to a hollow drone, accompanied by some thrummy vibes at wide-open throttle. Epinions Recent Content for Home
  • a wide-open town
  • But to me, the bigger problem comes when we neglect such a wide-open door to ministry. Christianity Today
  • The ostrich walked up and down the aisle during the ceremony fluttering its wide-open wings all the while as if it were blessing the couple.
  • The Russian front in the south had begun to give way at the beginning of July, when Kirponos, with his tank strength exhausted, had been levered off the Rovno-Dubno-Ternopol axis and forced back at a pace, which daily gathered momentum, into the wide-open spaces of the Ukraine proper. Barbarossa
  • The boy, hapless but lovable, is drawn with exaggerated features, thick lips and wide-open eyes. Balloon Juice » 2005 » June
  • It has a simple, hypnotic riff repeated over a wide-open, reverbed-out rhythm section, topped off by some woozy synth strings for a pleasingly spacey effect.
  • It was a suitable thrilling finish to a wide-open race. The Sun
  • Belyeu v. Coosa County Board of Education, 998 F. 2d 925 (11th Cir. 1993); see also New York Times v. Sullivan, 364 U.S. 254, 270 (1964) (“profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open”). The Volokh Conspiracy » “Free Speech Has Been a Powerful Force for the Spread of Equality Under the Law”;
  • Maybe there's a waifish attendant in the men's, a rose in a stem vase and acres of wide-open country. Globe and Mail
  • Ranging through those wide-open spaces on foot or in the saddle is the essence of freedom. A Conversation with Philip Caputo about Crossers
  • I'd gathered Santa Fe was an extravagant, wide-open community, but even I was astonished at the amounts I saw change hands that night; the gamblers of Santa Fe, whether they were drunk traders, flash greasers, desperate immigrants, cold-eyed swells with pistols prominently displayed in their waistbands, or even the couple of tonsured priests who had an apparently bottomless satchel of coin and crossed themselves before every cast of the dice, were evidently no pikers. Isabelle
  • With the windows wide-open and natural light and fresh air streaming into the gallery space, the artworks of Mahlangu come to life.
  • You see, those wide-open spaces streaking past when you're rattling about on the train are ramshackle urban Edens.
  • If the AFL sought to present itself as the perfect embodiment of the 1960s — a hip, wide-open alternative to the stodgier NFL — perhaps no team better represented that ideal than the high-flying San Diego Chargers. Chargers' days with Al Davis set stage for Raiders rivalry
  • Yet when Denver extended its big men and rotated its guards to shut off the pick and roll, the Wolves merely swung the ball to a wide-open Latrell Sprewell on the wing, who buried seven treys en route to a 31-point performance.
  • With heavy-lidded eyes, wide-open mouths or rubber-hosey limbs, Satrapi's characters convey everything from gleeful, kinetic action to stark terror to heart-rending anguish-which is perfectly fitting for the autobiographical Frames Per Second Magazine
  • Mr. O'Day, a relatively unknown sidearmer who made it to Anaheim unexpectedly out of spring training in 2008, follows Mr. Rodriguez to the National League and into a wide-open Mets bullpen. In Search of the Next Josh Hamilton
  • Ted and his son farm their beefaloes with much care and attention on some wide-open acreage in Exeter, RI, where the beefaloes clomp around and eat grass.
  • Carr zipped a perfect pass to a wide-open Johnson, who dropped the easy catch that would have given Houston another third down conversion.
  • The skinny: With seven teams among the top 35 in RPI, this could be one of the most entertaining and wide-open events this week. 2008 conference tournament capsules
  • M that he began to gain recognition as an offensive coordinator with an effective wide-open attack and the ability to groom quarterbacks.
  • In its opposition to the AT&T and T-Mobile deal, Justice pigheadedly refuses to credit the wide-open, evolving nature of the network operation business. Wi-Fi and the Mobile Meltdown
  • It makes for a wide-open contest and the possibility of the championship being decided by points difference. Times, Sunday Times
  • This course with its wide-open fairways and long total yards tends to be good for the long, straight, hitters.
  • It was a suitable thrilling finish to a wide-open race. The Sun
  • In the electronic republic, there needs to be assurance of a media environment of wide-open access to send and receive.
  • The wide-open spaces on the stage were exciting enough - you could have taken the dog for a walk up there. Times, Sunday Times
  • Three wide-opened casements laid bare the night under a teazle-blue heaven trembling with stars. Over the River
  • But such are the wide-open spaces of the oche at the Reebok. Times, Sunday Times
  • After we had made it through the rough sastrugi we entered a wide-open flat snow plain, almost perfect conditions for sledge travel.
  • … The group was started by Pat Dexter, who started coming to the park with his homemade hoops several years ago, he said, because he was looking for wide-open spaces to hoop, spaces away from lamps and other breakables ‘I teach P.E. and I googled ‘Hula Hooping’ one day, and hooping. org came up and I couldn’t believe it. Hooping.org | Blog | Albuquerque Hoopers Hoop It Up
  • He was muttering incessantly to himself, as if delighted at having found his tongue, his head swaying on his shoulders, and a strange murmur, soft, birdlike, meaningless, like sounds heard from a vast distance, coming from his wide-open mouth. Vandover and the Brute
  • There were tall trees, wide-open planes, meandering streams, babbling brooks, rolling hills, and smart, intelligent people.
  • Team USA threw a couple of balls away with ill-conceived alley-oops, missed a few wide-open jumpers and blew a couple of defensive assignments.
  • Wide-open spaces and moving walkways now replace narrow concourses and gate areas with inadequate seating.
  • This is one of the most wide-open races of the meeting so there are no end of horses in with a shout. The Sun
  • When I ask people why they live in a place so unforgiving, I get straight, immediate answers: wide-open spaces, inconstant weather, even isolation, traits that would discourage many.
  • Although I preferred the more wide-open possibilities found in Anders 'Fast Forward anthologies (I was struck by how many of the stories in this collection touched on contemporized Aztec culture, Sherlock Holmes, and French-controlled Louisiana), Sideways in Crime proved an entertaining read in its own right. And speaking of Stargate...
  • He mostly takes people out in groups of ones and twos, and normally it's in a wide-open space.
  • A little round, stripy-blue fish slowly wiggled its way right in front of my face, with black wide-open eyes and naturally pursed mouth, as if he didn't notice there was a big monster watching him.
  • There are bunkers spread across the fairway on the par 4 10th, filling a wide-open void.

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