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Example sentences for "door opened"

  • Suddenly he heard a footstep; a door opened; and the Lord Bigod appeared, leading a maiden into the room, who encircled his arm with her hands.

  • While the tailor was asking me the reason, my chamber-door opened, and the old man, having no patience to stay, appeared to us with my hatchet and cords.

  • As soon as the captain of the robbers had uttered these words, a door opened in the rock; and after he had made all his troop enter before him, he followed them, when the door shut again of itself.

  • And at the moment a door opened, and the governor and his wife entered and greeted Estenega with cordial hospitality.

  • A door opened, and, one by one, out of the black beyond, five white-robed forms flitted into the room.

  • Then a door opened, and a woman entered with a little child on her arm.

  • A large trap-door opened, and a table came up covered with all kinds of delicacies according to Roman taste.

  • Then a small trap-door opened in the wall, and the fool Hamilcar showed his hideous head.

  • By and by she fancied she heard a movement in the house; then it seemed to her that the house-door opened.

  • Ere he was half-way up the stairs, a door opened, and his old comrade in adventure rushed down.

  • The office-door opened, and he heard not; his name was called, and he remained equally moveless.

  • He muttered an oath; but at that instant the front-door opened, and his manner changed directly.

  • Now it happened that at the very moment when Charlotte was about to ring the bell, the front-door opened, and a livery-servant issued forth, doubtless upon some errand.

  • He now entered a passage leading to a flight of stairs; down which he hastened, and reached a kind of hall, from whence the street-door opened.

  • At last the Miss Willises’ door opened; the door of the first glass-coach did the same.

  • She had been seated at this for several hours when the door opened.

  • He had hardly reseated himself when the door opened.

  • We had not waited long when the door opened, and no other than the great lady herself, and my loved and lovely godchild, the Viscountess Lessingholm, came into the apartment.

  • My curiosity was at length relieved; a rude folding-door opened opposite, and showed a low dim sitting-room beyond, from which there rose a few steps to the entrance of my chamber.

  • We exchanged vows of mutual affection and constancy, and I had sealed our blessed compact with a kiss, witnessed only by the moon and stars, when the cabin-door opened, and her father stood before me.

  • A door opened, he pointed at Joe, and the door closed.

  • It swung smartly around and its side door opened.

  • Again, a door opened and a man in uniform with an apron in front came marching in with a tray.

  • They were still speaking when the door opened and a Member came in.

  • Not a face showed at a casement, not a door opened; worse, though I knocked again and again, the house I would awaken remained dead and silent.

  • Then a door opened into a kitchen nine feet long, situated between the large store-rooms.

  • At the bottom of the ladder, a door opened, and shut after us immediately with a bang.

  • A door opened, and I found myself in the compartment where Captain Nemo--certainly an engineer of a very high order--had arranged his locomotive machinery.

  • Ere he was halfway up the stairs, a door opened, and his old comrade in adventure rushed down.

  • A door opened and a man and a woman came out.

  • A door opened here, and another there, and paths of yellow light flashed over the hard-trodden snow as shadowy life came forth to greet what message he brought from the little cabin.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "door opened" 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:
    dead reckoning; deep interest; door exercise; door life; door neighbor; door neighbour; door open; door relief; fifth parallel; good look; killed himself; large lake; letters and; long standing; national feeling; often spoken; over the; prevail upon; real pleasure; remain silent; second self; shorten sail; square hole; tell what; white tissue; will tell