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Sentence Examples
On my way back, I paused by the open door of the spare room, peeking into it with interest.
There was a window that was slightly ajar, to a room with an open door, where the two ARC men were holding a conversation.
I looked out the open door and saw the thin wisps of gas just floating around in mid-air.
The gleam of an oil lamp cast a brilliant pool of light through the open door and they saw that a table had been laid for supper.
Thus, when the culture wars began in the late 1960s, the antagonists of a traditional curriculum were pushing against an open door.
An open door lay beyond them and Chris could see the first few steps of the staircase that would lead him to the top floor.
To suggest that Scotland would become an open door for crooks, conmen and other criminals is a gross exaggeration.
Where ever there was a Lady, there was always an open door, especially if one was asked to meet the Lady at the appointed place.
If we do truly seal our border we had best do it with a true open door for those to walk through legally.
He blinked quickly and then turned to look at the half open door where his mother was leaning inside.
He unholstered his SOCOM pistol and raised the weapon in one fluid motion before proceeding through the open door.
I sighed quietly and looked over at Quinn, before slipping my hand from Jordan's and nodding toward the open door.
Soon, I was able to focus my vision and recognized a tall rose garden just outside the elevator exit through the open door of the cab.
This morning, one of the Aussie midshipmen went by the open door of my stateroom.
A slew of Harley's were parked outside, a couple bikers hanging outside the open door to the saloon.
A tall man was hanging out of the open door of the bus checking that the bus was free to move.
As the warden gazed out the open door, one of his underlings, a rather stout fellow named Mr. Hersby, approached the nervous man.
There is nothing worse in a small space than to be confronted by bold and outrageous colours with every open door.
About three months ago the Gomez family's house cat escaped through an open door.
Her body, big and flabby, jiggled as she shoved herself through the open door way and closed the oak door behind her.
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A tiny silver crescent moon hung from the chain, glinting in the torchlight streaming in from the open door.
There is no doubt that those campaigning for the right-to-die push at an open door.
I think that you are pushing at an open door, when you talk about public service ethos, and there is a price tag that goes with that.
It made us realise that we could win this game, even if to be honest, I think he was pushing at an open door.
Chapman already planned to vote for him so the letter was pushing at an open door.
To suggest that it would become an open door for crooks, conmen and other criminals is a gross exaggeration.
Others, weaponless, filed in through the open door, their faces masks of shock.
He quickly swept his daughter into his arms, grabbed his travel bag and dashed towards the open door and into the chaos of the ship.
It was good to be sitting in the kitchen of an old Welsh cottage again, close by the range and the open door to the garden.
I continued down the hall until I reached the first open door and cautiously peered inside.
Stanley Morgan was sitting behind his desk with a telephone receiver to his ear when Emily walked through the open door.
The smell of death still emanates from the bathroom and chickens go back and forth through the open door.
John walked towards the open door, but stopped in the doorsill.
Outside, through the open door, ghostly fleets of bicycles glided past.
I understand Mr Leakey's concerns but as the club has committed to protect the genuine open space at the County Ground, he is pushing at an open door.
A craftsman joiner, distinguished by his long white apron, poses on a pair of stepladders, apparently putting the finishing touches to an open door.
I think you should see instead us as pushing at an open door.
A tall man rested his broad frame against the open door of the room.
There was a sense in which the Party was pushing at an open door.
He was running towards a little boy outside an open door, down the hall.
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We have an open door policy and would invite people to drop in at any time for information or inquiries as to the support or services we have to offer.
Once she was in front of the open door, with the Berlin cityscape rapidly passing by outside, he attacked her again.
There was a cold breeze as the chilly wind blew in through the open door.
My chest pressed into the foot of the crib, arms outstretched through bars, I wailed at an open door to an empty staircase.
My mum waltzed by my open door, came back, and then peered in at me.
Dusk was past, a heavy overcast blocked the starlight, and outside of the incandescent glow that spilled from the open door, the darkness was complete.
Reaching the open door, he burst in and went straight for the stairs.
Through the open door you see a red-tiled floor, a large wooden bed, and on a deal table a ewer and a basin.
He tried to climb into the carriage, but he gripped the open door, which swung back, causing him to lose his grip.
The fierce wind drove a raindrift in at the open door, as two men, drenched from head to foot, but vested as Benedictine monks, entered.
She stood at the open door, staggering herself with this enigma, on a rainy, thundery evening.
An open door provided a generic interface to other parts of the fictional world just offstage but unseen by the audience.
Kenny Durkin stuck his head into the open door and yelled at me.
Two old men are sitting on the steps in front of the open door.
Politicians pussyfoot around for fear of saying the wrong thing, leaving an open door for Griffin to goosestep through.
Through the open door Clement sees the girls in the shady shelter shed drinking daintily from the bubble taps and dabbing at their mouths with their crumpled white hankies.
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He was so astonished at what he saw that he slid behind the open door out of sight.
Down the corridor into which he crept, snakelike on his belly, red light flickered from an open door.
What the open door of the ash pit is to the furnace of a steam-boiler the open street door is to the house on fire.
Through more corridors they passed till the wardress stopped just short of an open door and rang a bell.
He already saw his home, with the open door illumined, and in the centre of the Red Square, the black forms of his family.
As they drew up to the open door, he saw Lynwood and Norton, pilot and engineer, standing just inside waiting for him.
Houston was already charging toward the open door, hoping to get inside before sager could reach a weapon.
Mrs. atheling had heard their approach, and she was at the open door to meet them.
Was there not, moreover, an open door before his face inviting him to win for himself the honors of a mandarinate?
Through the open door to the sitting-room, and down the wall to the right-on and on she crept.
She looked towards the open door and saw the footman's flat back, and narrow head covered with carefully plastered hair.
In the far corner of the bare walls of undressed stone at this side is an open door leading into a mistal.
Thaddeus Funston stared out over the heads of the mps through the open door, looking uprange over the heat-shimmering desert.
We still stood by the open door, whence we had watched the carriage disappear.
She was too angry to notice how near miss Campbell and Elinor were sitting to the open door.
Her visitor had accepted the open door as permission to enter and was standing in the hall.
In reply, cag suddenly swerved the big truck to one side of the road, hoping to throw Tom out of the open door.
A Camberwell beauty darted through the open door and made its way, in erratic plunges, great wings waving, down the sunny aisle.
He tore the obstructing handkerchief from his mouth and made for the open door, capless and 177 out of breath.
Anton Martek, sitting on a chair beside the stable's open door, fashioning a ski pole, did not look up from his work.
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Puss had no sooner been liberated than she bounded out at the open door.
Then the open door of the saloon seemed to beckon an invitation.
Now he hurried to pass down the train to a boxcar with an open door.
As they turned a corner, a woman yelled something at them from an open door, and two men ran after the hansom for about a hundred yards.
Hussey hurried towards an open door leading to the kitchen, and bawling out clam for two, disappeared.
He turned sharply and sauntered toward the open door of the house.
She thrust a bare, white arm from the curtain which shielded her open door, and received the cup from his hands.
She sat down on the settee near the open door to cool herself, I daresay.
Thornly watched him from the open door until he shambled from sight.
He met Hilda entering the open door with the letters in her hand.
There are the Life Guards, exclaimed Cora, who stood by the open door.
Beyond, through an open door, could be seen the tiled bath-room.
Macao, a Portuguese possession, is the open door of Portugal into China.
In the end we gained a cosey library, with an open door leading to a bedroom beyond.
She caught sight of Miss Sharp typing through the open door.
And how unselfishly England has wrought for the open door for all!
Martin opened it with a premonition of disaster, and read it standing at the open door when he had received it from the postman.
From the open door there reeked a horrible poisonous exhalation which set us gasping and coughing.
Craven found out about the open door he would be fearfully angry and get a new key and lock it up forevermore.
Lady Arabella tried to efface herself behind the now open door.
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On reaching the passage, he looked through the open door of his little parlor and saw Frank sitting there in idle wretchedness, with his head resting wearily on his hand.
She stood just where the warm yellow light flooded her from the open door.
Some time it may prove to be a door, a great open door to you.
The younger children had been put to bed in another room, but with an open door between, so that they could be heard talking busily among themselves.
They thronged, however, to the now open door, pressing the lieutenant-governor, in the eagerness of their curiosity, into the room in advance of them.
The moon rays, streaming in through the open door and windows, gave what light was needed to the old black mammy who stood at the table concocting a tisane of fragrant herbs.
Athos availed himself of the permission, ascended the stairs with his lightest step, gained the landing, and through the open door perceived Milady putting on her hat.
