Presently I saw it divide half-way down the room, to pause before two openings at which six soldiers waited, like ticket takers in a circus.
I gave up flying because there were no openings for civilians, and I had met with endless disappointments and mortifications at the hands of those who should have helped and encouraged me.
When he was very young he made a dove-house in the end of his father's shed, all complete, with openings for the doves to go in and out in front, and a door for himself behind.
When the pedant reached his side de Sigognac was just holding up before him a shirt that had as many openings as the rose window of a cathedral, and slowly shaking his head as he gazed at it, with an expression of utter discouragement.
The hearths were charged through archedopenings at their ends with charcoal fuel.
Our attention having been directed towards the openings on the coast opposite Melville Island, we proceeded towards the first, lying on the south side of Clarence Strait.
The river thus pent up, ran through the small openings in this barrier with great velocity; while above, it had again assumed the deep still character which I have before had occasion to describe.
The white teeth have their points ranged evenly, the eye is high up but does not touch the profile, and the two contiguous openings of the nostrils are immediately before it.
The scales anterior to the pectorals and gill openings are closer and finer than on the hinder parts of the fish.
Immediately behind the gillopenings there are three roundish scales larger than the others.
We again bade adieu to our friends at Sydney, and sailed to explore the north-western part of the continent, which from the number of openings still unexamined, possessed the interest that invariably attaches to whatever is unknown.
At one side cooking was carried on at a long, crescent-shaped range of some sort of cement, and containing half a dozen openings for fires.
The consultation ended, we went back to the patient, and I made three openings in his thigh.
Having discoursed of the causes and complications of his malady, I said we must cure them by their contraries; and must first ease the pain, making openings in the thigh to let out the matter.
Many people suppose that they have made all necessary provision for ventilation if they have put in tubes or openings for the escape of foul air, forgetting that these outlets will have no effect if corresponding inlets are not provided.
It is likely that the mucous membrane of the pharynx is swollen as far as the openings of the Eustachian tubes to such a degree as to render the entrance of fluids into the latter improbable.
Primo, the cyclostomes, whose jaws are fused into a flexible ring and whose gill openings are simply a large number of holes, an order consisting of only one family.
Diving easily, these reptiles can remain a good while underwater by closing the fleshy valves located at the external openings of their nasal passages.
The numerous openings in the walls of many of these works, although indiscriminately denominated gateways, were clearly not always designed as such.
There is no evidence that any regard was had to the points of the compass, except that the gateways or openings of the small circles are oftenest towards the east.
In some of the larger structures the openings are more numerous.
These openings appear to have been originally about ten or fifteen feet in width.
Other openings for librarians are in scientific schools, medical schools, and in some law firms and business houses where the keeping and filing of documents are of special importance.
Young women who have graduated in science from universities are finding openings for chemical work in a number of industries.
This line of openings is arranged in a circle or a series of connecting, oblong lines, marking that particular seal's favorite feeding ground.
With prodigious effort I chopped openingsthrough barriers after barriers of ice.
One very large basket I furnished with openings through which to pass a strong stick, so that it might, when heavily laden, be carried by two persons.
These were openings we had made in the rock at some elevation, reached within by steps, and a kind of gallery which passed along the front of the rooms.
Every now and then he saw the Blue Mountains, rising up tier after tier, across the gorge, and as he peered through the various openings he could not help noticing how thoroughly they deserved their names.
Behind the quays rises a wall of rubble-work faced with Maltese stone, in which at regular intervals are pierced the arched openings that form the entrances to the dry docks.
Low islets are usually formed on each side of theopenings on which a few cocoa-nut trees grow; so that the mariner is thus furnished with a natural beacon by which to guide his vessel clear of the reef safely into the harbour.
These openings are usually found to occur opposite valleys where the streams from the mountains enter the sea.
Formerly, however, the ascent was made by steps cut in the side of the cliff, and openings from within enabled the garrison with pikes to precipitate below any who were daring enough to venture up the steps uninvited.
On the left a great pier G allows of two passages I I which lead to the other openings that gape upon the road, and turning to the right give access to the further depths of the underground retreat.
The chambers had openings as windows looking out upon a river, and the rock was converted into a barrack that could accommodate a large garrison.
These excavations have now several openingsupon the road; the two principal are accessible enough, if one is suitably dressed, for beyond the entrance one has to crawl on hands and knees, and this is but the initiation of other discomforts.
A passage H is, however, the most direct means of communication between the cavern E and the larger hall J to which also access is obtained through the openings I I separated by the pillar S.
Footnote: Actually the doorway and three lower openings look into the dark granary.
There are also indications of a floor having been carried across in some of the loftier caves, and there are openings in the roofs through which ascent was made to the series of chambers on the upper storey.
The rocks of Djonfont-kaleharri are also honeycombed, with still inhabited caves; some are completely cavernous, but others have the openings walled up so as to form a screen.
Some rocks overhang, and the whole of this cliff and the fallen blocks have been drilled with openings and converted into habitations for man and for beast.
Alfred cut certain openings in the banks and lowered the stream, so that the hostile navy stranded.
The architecture here is very simple, plain mud walls with no windows or openings of any kind except a few square holes near the roof.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "openings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
