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Example sentences for "opened the"

  • He opened the door as he spoke, and I had hardly time to spring out when the coachman lashed the horse and the carriage rattled away.

  • He opened the table-drawer as he spoke, and I noticed that he slipped his revolver into his pocket.

  • Holmes ascended the stair first, and as he opened the door of our room he gave a start of surprise.

  • With a wry face I went out into the hall and opened the door.

  • Beg pardon, sir," said our page-boy, as he opened the door.

  • She had relapsed once more into the vacant inanimate creature who had opened the gate to us, until it pleased Miserrimus Dexter to speak to her again.

  • As I opened the first of them the singing upstairs ceased.

  • Before I opened the door I heard Mrs. Macallan groaning.

  • I opened the si x drawers in each cabinet, and examined their contents without hesitation.

  • As I opened the dining-room door the Major hastened to meet me.

  • He opened the door, brushed off the snow from his boots with the broom that stood behind the door, and opening the inner door, stepped into the kitchen.

  • He produced a key, opened the door, and Phil accompanied him up a shabby staircase to the third floor.

  • He opened the door of a rear room, and made a sign to Phil to enter.

  • He slipped into the yard, halted again, then raised the latch timidly and opened the door.

  • Then he removed his shoes, took one of the two candles, blew out the other, opened the door, and quitted the room, gazing about him like a person who is in search of something.

  • Imogen grew quite white as he opened the journal.

  • She rose and thrust her feet into slippers and, putting a dressing gown over her shoulders, opened the door of her husband's room; he was sleeping soundly.

  • The abbe once more bowed as he opened the door, the stranger bowed and took his leave, and the carriage conveyed him straight to the house of M.

  • Morrel examined the ledgers, opened the portfolio, and counted the money.

  • At the moment when he opened the door, such a gust of wind came in that the lamp was nearly extinguished.

  • This time we were the vultures; so we opened the bird, and this time all special symptoms had disappeared, there were only general symptoms.

  • I opened the subject to her in the course of the day, and proposed that she should become the Favourite.

  • With no longer pause than was made by my crossing the bedroom, I opened the dressing-room door, and looked in.

  • I opened the door, and stood on the step, while he stood in the doorway.

  • So eager was he, and so full of his plan, that he did not feel any repulsion as he opened the warrior's deerskin shirt and took his totem from a place near his heart.

  • He cut the withes with two sweeps of his sharp hunting knife, opened the door, bent his head, stepped in and then closed the door behind him, in order that no Iroquois might see what had happened.

  • At last, in the course of these investigations, I opened the door of a chamber that bore the marks of habitation.

  • An elderly woman, whom I had seen before as one of the servants who lived in the supplementary house across the back courtyard, opened the gate.

  • Then I put the fastenings as I had found them, opened the door at which I had entered when I ran home last night, shut it, and ran for the misty marshes.

  • Another sable warder (a carpenter, who had once eaten two geese for a wager) opened the door, and showed me into the best parlor.

  • The servant preceded Magdalen along an empty passage, and, leading her past an uncarpeted staircase, opened the door of a room at the back of the house.

  • When I opened the drawer in which the trinkets and diamonds were usually kept, these opened without resistance, but the jewel cases had disappeared, along with their contents no doubt.

  • I went into the dressing-room, opened the window, and called Prudence several times.

  • He opened the letters, guessed at rather than read them, for each was of four pages; and a moment after folded them up.

  • He opened the drawers, wrote down what he saw, and did not even seem to be aware that there was a dying woman in the bed that fortunately the charity of the law leaves me.

  • She held my arm fast enough to force me to go downstairs with her, and she still clung to me with all the little strength she had at the moment when I opened the dining-room door.

  • As I opened the door, I beckoned to Marian to follow me to the stairs.

  • He opened the dining-room door, and called out angrily to know what "that infernal noise" meant.

  • As I opened the door I heard the Count say to him, "No--a thousand times over, no.

  • I don't know when he opened the door, or when he shut it.

  • He opened the trap, grabbed the Marionette by the collar, and carried him to the house as if he were a puppy.

  • He opened the door to look up and down the street--and still no one!

  • He opened the door, and with a face like a graven image waited to be questioned.

  • I scribbled a line of thanks to my host, opened the window, and dropped quietly into a gooseberry bush.

  • So I opened the door, and dropped quickly into the tangle of hazels which edged the line.

  • Examining still more minutely, I detected a spring; this, on being pressed, opened the back of the miniature as a lid.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opened the" 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:
    alluvial soil; check the; could guess; fake away; fresco painting; good reading; hard and; many ways; mercurial barometer; metal plate; motive power; must consider; opened fire; opened his; opened the; opened them; opened unto; other days; peculiar character; rare instances; restrain them; short stay; sick headache; that thou; toothed wheel; what estate