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Example sentences for "the open"

  • First,' says he, 'we none of us expect to get any lodging on the road, and it will be a little too hard to lie just in the open air.

  • When they came near Epping they halted, choosing out a proper place in the open forest, not very near the highway, but not far out of it on the north side, under a little cluster of low pollard-trees.

  • I would plunder nobody; but for any town upon the road to deny me leave to pass through the town in the open highway, and deny me provisions for my money, is to say the town has a right to starve me to death, which cannot be true.

  • Fortunately for the Americans Rozales had but a handful of men with him and Rozales himself was never keen for a fight in the open.

  • The trail had ceased at the open window of the washroom at the rear of the restaurant, and search as he would be had been unable to pick it up again.

  • He had heard nothing of the natives since the night before, and now, in the open, there came to him but the faint sounds of the village life across the clearing.

  • Those two were right in the open, workin' up to us on their bellies.

  • It had occurred to her to look once more into the queer gaunt room which had been Clare's den, or rather eyrie, for so long, and climbing the ladder she stood at the open door of the apartment, regarding and pondering.

  • But this he seemed not to mind, and, having room for extension in the open air, he lifted her against his shoulder, so that he could carry her with ease, the absence of clothes taking much from his burden.

  • It grows in the open, is thorny, stocky, close grown, and iron-rooted.

  • All that summer the dead mummified in the open or dropped slowly back to earth in the quagmires of the bitter springs.

  • Unless a crime is committed in the open, the inquest does nothing beyond getting evidence from witnesses while events are still in their minds.

  • I went slowly across the lawn, skirted the hedge to a break not far from the lodge, and found myself on the open road.

  • In a minute a woman darted into the area of light made by the open door, and caught me by the arm.

  • Once on board, the keen, fresh sea-air revived her, the breeze was just strong enough to nicely swell the sails of the FOAM CREST, as she cut her way merrily towards the open.

  • Sir Andrew had expressed the opinion that no doubt she had got in the lee of the wind before the storm broke out, or else perhaps had not ventured into the open at all, but was lying quietly at Gravesend.

  • And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

  • And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

  • A very old lady sat in a chair by the open window, and close to her, laid across a second chair, was a cylinder of oxygen, smaller but of the same shape as those which had saved our own lives.

  • Mrs. Challenger, a small, dainty, smiling figure, stood in the open doorway to welcome us.

  • Great numbers of people were at the open windows of the houses.

  • I sat by the open window, my chin resting upon my hand and my mind absorbed in the misery of our situation.

  • The place lies high and in the open, and lacks the lavish shade of the more protected New England villages.

  • Charity, half unconsciously, found herself getting out of the buggy and following him in at the open door.

  • The wind was blowing fiercely across the open slopes; the horse faced it with bent head and straining flanks, and now and then the buggy swayed so that Charity had to clutch its side.

  • During the mornings and afternoons, I wandered about the lovely neighbourhood, or lay, lost in delicious day-dreams, beneath some mighty tree on the open lawn.

  • I found myself lying in the open air, in the early morning, before sunrise.

  • But this room looks southward towards the open country, and they never show themselves here; at least I never saw any.

  • I read on and on, till the shades of the afternoon began to deepen; for in the midst of the forest it gloomed earlier than in the open country.

  • Clay looked over inquiringly to where Mendoza sat in the light of the open door, and the General smiled faintly, and emitted a pleased little sigh of relief.

  • He turned and jerked his head toward the open door.

  • Clay rose from the table and stood in the light of the open door, stretching himself gingerly, for his joints were sore and stiff with fording streams and climbing the surfaces of rocks.

  • Langham and MacWilliams came out and stood in the open door, and Mendoza rose and looked at Clay.

  • Crouching behind the bushes the three waited, their eyes fastened upon the far side of the open space.

  • Abdul Mourak, always watchful, was the first to see them, but already they were halfway across the open.

  • Initiated in low and subdued tones, the sound soon rose in volume to the open diapason of barbaric blood lust.

  • Whirling the ape-man across a hairy shoulder, as easily as you or I might lift a babe in arms, Bolgani turned and dashed out into the open, racing toward the great trees.

  • He hated the blacks even more than did the apes, and here was an opportunity for a kill in the open.

  • They came and pushed him into the open, where his appearance was greeted by wild shouts from the assembled villagers.

  • The temperature was very high; it was such a night as one would gladly have spent in the open air, and I was in no hurry to go to bed.

  • She retreated toward the farther of the open windows.

  • Susan, half fainting, dropped into a chair by one of the open windows.

  • She and Mrs. Tucker had to be content with a dark room on the fifth floor, opening on a damp air shaft whose odor was so foul that in comparison the Clinton Place shaft was as the pure breath of the open sky.

  • It would be fine to sit out in the open, watch the moon and the stars, the mysterious banks gliding swiftly by, and new vistas always widening out ahead.

  • How much better it would be if she could live out in the open, out where it was attractive!

  • There was a very faint, spicy odor like wild roses and cinnamon left in the room where Martin Pike stood alone, staring whitely at the open doorway.

  • Eugene staggered to one of the open windows, from the sill of which a man had just leaped.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the open" 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:
    the face; the field; the open; the presence; the vale; thee shall; then apply; then back; then became; then curs; then draw; then fold; then more; then must; then roll; then stir; then take; then taken; then walked; there and; there are; there came; there could; there lived; there would have been; these words