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Example sentences for "wide open"

  • Thorax inflated, conical, with regular circular pores and a wide open mouth of nearly the same breadth.

  • Next to her Mabel seemingly asleep with thighs wide open.

  • Not satisfied she turned round, sat down facing me, putting the candle on the floor and with legs so wide open as she could went on with her investigation.

  • At this moment Henriette threw the door wide open, and personally announced that dinner was ready.

  • The glassy eyes, wide open, seemed to exercise a spell over him.

  • He went to the lofty bay-window, threw it wide open, and let the pure night air fan his hot brow.

  • Suddenly he rushed to the door and flung it wide open.

  • He himself still lay with his eyes wide open, gazing quietly at the mask of the prisoner on the stove, absorbed in thoughts, which, for the present, may remain his secret.

  • And he applied himself more vigorously to the oars, for they had now passed the bridge of Solferino and were come out into a wide open space of water.

  • There was no darkness nor quiet here, all the stores had their windows wide open, and the light from them poured out upon the black slippery mass of ice and melted snow that lay over the frozen ground.

  • He walked out to the great door and flung it wide open.

  • As they finally, in their loitering fashion, neared the door, Talbot walked to it, threw it wide open, and asked them what they wanted.

  • No more words that night; but much thinking and moving of thin lips, and eyes staring in the dark, wide open.

  • Going to the farther corner of the vault, he stopped before a strong mahogany door, and taking a key from his pocket, unlocked and threw it wide open.

  • The Book of God is wide open, and His Word is summoning mankind unto Him.

  • XCII: The Book of God is wide open, and His.

  • XCII: THE BOOK OF GOD IS WIDE OPEN, AND HIS.

  • It was quite warm, and both door and windows stood wide open.

  • In front of the verandah, looking towards the river, was a wide open space.

  • Step this way, Don Roderigo, and look upon the people," replied Evana, drawing the bolts of one of the windows and throwing the window wide open.

  • He walked to the window and set the shutter wide open, when to his surprise he saw that the window had two bars on it.

  • Since the left half no longer receives the symmetrical cooperation of the right half, the grub, instead of curling into the normal volute, closes its spiral on one side and leaves it wide open on the other.

  • The Anthidium's work comes at the bottom of the spiral, a long way from the mouth; and, though this is wide open, the eye cannot travel far enough along the winding stair.

  • His edged hoofs slashed it and smashed it, his pronged antlers ripped it wide open, and in a dozen seconds he had sent the contents flying in every direction.

  • There was a bad taste in his mouth from sleeping with it wide open, and going into the dining-room of the house, he mixed himself a drink of whiskey and soda and swallowed it in three great gulps.

  • U" large, wide open, tipped to left, and far from left oval.

  • U" large, wide open, close to inner frame line and far from left oval.

  • She walked stealthily to the door of the sick room, and seeing the dim eyes of her loved invalid looking at her, wide open, she ventured in.

  • In the midst of this confusion stood a large Saratoga, wide open.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wide open" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    comparatively simple; eyes rested; fishing line; great towns; immense number; must work; relatively high; under present; wide berth; wide circle; wide circuit; wide distribution; wide enough; wide expanse; wide field; wide open; wide range; wide sense; wide variety; widely different; widely known; widely spoken; widely spread; widely used; wider range; wider sense