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Example sentences for "eyes open"

  • I found it a hard matter to keep my eyes open.

  • Tom constantly hailed the look-outs forward to ascertain that they were keeping their eyes open, and young Alick paid frequent visits to the forecastle, sent by Tom for the same purpose.

  • Leaving the poop he walked forward, when he found that he had slipped down with his back leaning against the bulwarks, just behind a gun, and was fast asleep with his eyes open.

  • I guess you had better keep your eyes open, Dave.

  • I've got my eyes open already," was Dave's reply.

  • I'll have my eyes open," answered the boy.

  • It is quite delightful here," said he, "but I am so tired that I cannot keep my eyes open; I will sleep a little.

  • The prince thought, "The task is easy, I will most certainly keep my eyes open.

  • If one could but lie down and sleep, but no, one must have one's eyes open lest it hurts the young trees, or squeezes itself through the hedge into a garden, or runs away altogether.

  • Illustration 8] "Aunt Mary had also had her eyes open.

  • Aunt Mary had also had her eyes open, and in this particular case it was impossible to have one’s eyes open without having one’s eyes opened.

  • But, anyway, there isn't any merit badge for keeping your eyes open.

  • He began clutching me by the arm and saying, "I got it for keeping my eyes open, didn't I?

  • I go in with my eyes open, I am willing to be crushed, if necessary.

  • I've tried to keep my eyes open, Mr. Watling," I said.

  • But I vow I can keep my eyes open no longer.

  • I adopted the course Mr. Maskelyne told me he did with the Davenports, sat with my eyes open and my mouth shut.

  • Yes; but this only imposes the ordinary obligation of keeping one's eyes open.

  • They come to me; all I do is to keep my eyes open, and note the impressions they make on me.

  • If you don't go in your room, I lay here all night with my eyes open, so help me!

  • I can't live in the dark with my eyes open!

  • Don't make me live in the dark with my eyes open--don't!

  • I found it difficult enough even during my watch to keep my eyes open, and the moment I turned in to my hammock I was fast asleep.

  • I can't say how many days I spent on the raft, sleeping when I could not keep my eyes open, till all the provisions and the water I had brought were gone.

  • I did keep my eyes open as much as I could.

  • I accordingly did nothing, but I kept my eyes open, hoping that something would turn up.

  • Well, anyway I felt I was getting warm, and I came over here this morning with my eyes open, ready to see what there was to see.

  • At length, when night came on, in spite of my anxiety to see the coast, and the long sleep I had had, I felt scarcely able to keep my eyes open.

  • If it hadn't been for the talking I should have found it a hard matter to keep my eyes open.

  • In spite of the roaring seas I felt wonderfully sleepy, and could scarcely keep my eyes open as I held on to a stanchion at the after-part of the deck.

  • I feel as if I had been a chicken in his shell until now, and as if I were just getting my eyes open to see what the world is like.

  • Not often, if a Christian man or woman has married wrong with their eyes open.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eyes 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:
    captain over; drizzling rain; each hour; ever beheld; eyes and; eyes came; eyes closed; eyes fell; eyes fixed; eyes narrowed; eyes open; eyes rested; eyes right; eyes twinkled; eyes upon; eyes went; eyes were; felt very; first section; good folk; line clear; never liked; once gave; realized that; takes notice; unburnt brick