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Example sentences for "open eyes"

  • He turned away, and lay with wide-open eyes, looking out of the window at the sinking sun.

  • Montanelli stood beside the pillar, motionless, listening with wide-open eyes, full of the horror of death.

  • There was no sign of drowsiness in her wide-open eyes as they stared at the door between the two rooms.

  • But there was triumph in her big, wide-open eyes, and Jolly Roger felt something strange rising up in his breast.

  • Pauline lay quiet, with a stare in her wide-open eyes, gazing up at the ceiling.

  • He gazed at her with wide-open eyes, as though she were a perfect stranger to him in that dress that left her neck and arms so bare.

  • The children stood round with wide-open eyes, quite quiet, almost holding their breath and yet trembling with expectation: when would the first potatoes be done?

  • The Empress Elizabeth stared with wide-open eyes at the fate that had overtaken her.

  • Biddy Joyce was weeping bitterly before the end of the letter, with her blue-checked apron held up to her eyes; three or four of the little ones had gathered around, staring with wide-open eyes.

  • Dorothy stood staring at her mother with wide-open eyes.

  • Then when he beheld the ghastly sight, the streaming black hair, the half-open eyes, a great cry escaped his lips.

  • For there was no mistaking the pallid gray hue of the complexion, or the dull, glazed, half-open eyes.

  • She lay there with her white face and her wide-open eyes trying to keep calm.

  • He sat with wide-open eyes, gazing into the fire all the night long.

  • With wide-open eyes he sat watching the extinct gray ashes on the hearth.

  • Princess Mary looking at the midwife with wide-open eyes of alarm.

  • Natasha knew that she ought to go away, but was unable to do so: something gripped her throat, and regardless of manners she stared straight at Prince Andrew with wide-open eyes.

  • Nesvitski and Zherkov were so surprised by this outburst that they gazed at Bolkonski silently with wide-open eyes.

  • Natasha kept looking uneasily at everybody with wide-open eyes, as if wishing to intercept every glance directed toward her, and tried to appear the same as usual.

  • The boy came behind the old woman, and, with a protruding corner of the upper lip and wide-open eyes, gazed on the rolls brought by Maslova.

  • She pronounced the word "he" with a peculiar expression of horror and with wide-open eyes.

  • Then he addressed himself to Angela, who was looking at him with wide-open eyes and a most piteous expression.

  • Angela looked at him with wide-open eyes of pain and amazement.

  • The lizard slipped noiselessly over the rocks at your feet, and the tarantula gaped at you with wide-open eyes, before retreating to the shelter of her nest in the ground.

  • But the half-open eyes of the man seemed staring at me from the window, and I kept watching it, half thinking that the dreadful, mangled face would thrust itself out.

  • But he was looking at the bishop, no longer gravely but with wide-open eyes, alert.

  • Then the bishop remembered the wide-open eyes, and how he had noticed them in the church at the agency intently watching him.

  • Presently each turned, and saw the singular man with untamed, wide-open eyes glowering at the stage, and both backs shook again.

  • The bishop himself noted the sun-browned boy face and the wide-open eyes.

  • Victor Burleigh looked at her with frank, wide-open eyes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "open eyes" 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:
    called him; known voice; must remain; open boat; open channel; open circuit; open country; open door; open letter; open order; open plain; open prairie; open rupture; open sight; open them; open warfare; open window; opened his; opening speech; opening the; radical cure; said firmly; sound sleep; these pages; unto the; well received