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Example sentences for "open door"

  • The impulse for flight came upon him, and he was persuaded that it might be an open door.

  • Garret was led down a short, flagged passage, and thrust through an open door into a perfectly dark room.

  • The danger is too sore and pressing, and this is, as it were, an open door of escape.

  • It had been apparent for some time that war between Russia and Japan was inevitable, and Mr. Hay realized that war might seriously impair the integrity of China and the benefits of the "open door" policy.

  • The United States stood for the "open door" in China; and as the result of the diplomacy and influence of Secretary Hay, freedom of commerce was secured, and the division of China among the powers has been prevented.

  • Thus was successfully begun the since famous "open door" policy in China.

  • To prevent this, Secretary Hay advanced the so-called "open door" policy and successfully carried it out.

  • She walked straight into the blaze, when she might just as well have walked out through the open door.

  • At the corner of the house Mackenzie saw a dim light falling through an open door, into which the shadow of the woman came.

  • When the day came for Joan to know of the arrangement, she would leap toward it as toward an open door.

  • He saw Reid's shadow fall in the light that spread through the open door, and turned back to keep his watch at the window.

  • Under "open door" conditions Asiatic peoples could kill many White industries in the Pacific; but "open door" conditions could only be enforced by a successful war.

  • When the two went downstairs, they found the colored woman standing by an open door in the rear of the hall.

  • When Dora Bannister reached this barn, having followed a path which led to the lower story, she looked in at an open door, and received the impression of vast extent, emptiness, and the scent of hay.

  • The source of it was plain--an open door under a vast white signboard dingily lettered "The Salvation Army.

  • At the top he saw a light and hastened; it shone from an open door at the side of a passage.

  • Where the street ran into shops there was still a shuttered blankness, but here and there a durwan[8] yawned and stretched himself before an open door, and a sweeper made a cloud of dust beneath a commercial verandah.

  • All around the room were other rooms evidently used as sleeping apartments, for through a half-open door he saw an unmade bed, and he knew, from the construction of the house, that there was no upper story.

  • You have here a fine bathroom," said Narcisse, sauntering across the room to an open door.

  • Reiteration from Washington of the "open door" in China struck no terror to the Kaiser, justified in believing he could hold his position against all comers.

  • As you are whisked through the palace yard, on the way to the carriage, you espy through an open door a splendid room fitted with paraphernalia not associated with medieval pastimes.

  • He read hastily and with surprise the exaggerated praise which the "Open Door" called forth from the reviews.

  • Before sculpture we are content to marvel and worship, and in the 'Open Door' you have made us do all this and made us weep.

  • Your 'Open Door' is the most beautiful piece of sculpture, according to my opinion, in modern times.

  • Between times he modelled on his statues for his new conception of the "Open Door.

  • Howdy," he drawled, from just beyond the judge's open door.

  • He only paused when he stood on the portico before Fentress' open door.

  • The only person they saw to speak to was a woman sitting at an open door crying.

  • Where the street ran into shops there was still a shuttered blankness, but here and there a doorkeeper yawned and stretched himself before an open door, and a sweeper made a cloud of dust beneath a commercial verandah.

  • Looking over the side he saw a large barge, long, broad, and very deep, with upper decks at stem and stern, which a fussy little tug had just brought into position below an open door in the middle of the port side of the Elymas.

  • It was a gap in the wall, an open door in the house, a rent in the veil of protection.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "open door" 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:
    industrial schools; less white; natural harbors; open eyes; open field; open fields; open force; open letter; open place; open prairie; open question; open secret; open sepulchre; open shame; open space; open the; open wire; opened his; opened them; position where; single vote; sprang from; thought struck; well said; working parties; zinc plate