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Example sentences for "open space"

  • It was intensely dark down there, yet impossible for us to escape the trail, and at the end of that passage we emerged into an open space, enclosed with woods, and having a grit of sand under foot.

  • Beyond the fringe of brush there was an open space, but as we reached this, both paused, stricken dumb by horror at the sight which met our view.

  • Once I thought I saw a man's indistinct figure move across an open space, and once I heard voices far away.

  • Yes, and before; I was at the window, and watched him approach across the open space.

  • Mrs. Colfax, when they are come out of the narrow street into the great open space, remarks this with alarm.

  • And presently, in an open space near a large building, was a company of soldiers at drill.

  • I did not at that moment take time to ask permission of the Jockey Club, which, however, a few days later placed that admirable open space at my disposition.

  • At one time I had even the idea of landing in Paris itself, near the Gare de Lyon, where I perceived an open space.

  • To understand what happened I must explain the starting of spherical balloons from such places where groups of trees and other obstructions surround the open space.

  • Beyond, as they now saw entering, was an open space, a hundred cubits wide and more in length, but it had no roofing.

  • In front of the governor's palace was an open space, into which the multitude was pouring, but from the opposite direction came forward another throng of men.

  • There was an open space on the broad highway, and five paces in front of the jarl stood the man of whom Sigurd had spoken.

  • Not many paces beyond him was an open space on the summit of the hill and around it were fallen pillars, many and great, made of white stone.

  • It stands in an open space a little distance from the road.

  • Not until they reached the wide open space of the cross-roads, where they had talked so confidently scarcely an hour before, did the more intelligent of the throng regain their senses, while the others fled in every direction.

  • We therefore hastened our departure to get clear of the dense bush before night, and after two inspans arrived at an open space close to a small brook of running water, where we fixed our camp for the night.

  • Not until they reached the wide-open space of the cross-roads, where they had talked so confidently scarcely an hour before, did the most intelligent of the throng regain their senses, while the others fled in every direction.

  • The house is built upon an open space a little distance from the road.

  • We came out into an open space; beyond, the ridge fell away in a long slope of the timber, for the snowy range; and old Pilot Peak was right before us, to the west.

  • A horse should be picketed out from trees, or in the center of an open space, so that he cannot wind the rope about a tree and hold himself too short to graze.

  • It is altogether unlikely that so large a building, of irregular shape and with pillars on two sides, was provided with a roof; we have here an open space rather, serving as an extension of the Forum.

  • The form was oblong; the middle was an open space, called testudo, and which we now call the nave.

  • There was first of all an open space, or the forum proper, surrounded by a double row of shops, one above the other.

  • He received them in an open space in front of the royal residence.

  • He enjoyed an interesting and cheerful scene of African life in the open, straggling village of Calemri, amid which, divided into two distinct groups by a wide, open space, were numerous herds of cattle just being watered.

  • In an open space near it they encamped beneath two splendid ethel-trees, or tamarisks.

  • About twenty paces from this dense part, I had noticed, in passing, a large tree and an open space around it: from the branches of the tree the wild vine hung in thick clusters.

  • The largest cluster of kivas on the cave floor lies in the so-called plaza quarter, which takes its name from the open space occupied by the kivas in that section.

  • The kiva occupies almost the whole open space in which it is constructed, and the walls of neighboring buildings surround it on all sides, rising from the edge of the kiva.

  • It provides, in the case of new houses in new streets, for an open space in the rear, exclusively belonging to such building, of at least 150 square feet, free from erections except W.

  • When a house abuts at the rear on a street or permanent 'open space,' then no private open space or curtilage need be provided.

  • In an open space in the woods I see a pair of cedar-birds collecting moss from the top of a dead tree.

  • I got over the fence and moved toward them across an open space.

  • The whirring sound was absent, because here, in open space, where there was no atmosphere, there could be no sound.

  • In open space we were practically without weight.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "open space" 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:
    better advantage; deal more; found upon; gradual development; greenhouse plant; looking south; near thee; open carriage; open field; open forest; open ground; open hand; open mouth; open order; open rupture; open sepulchre; open spaces; open spot; open vessel; open window; opened his; opening the; sent abroad; several rows; shine forth; third down