How to Use open in a Sentence

open

1 of 3 adjective

• You left the blinds wide open.
• They kept the road open throughout the winter.
• The meat was roasted over an open fire.
• Don't chew with your mouth open.
• The door suddenly swung open.
• I was so tired that I couldn't keep my eyes open.
• There's already an open jar of pickles in the refrigerator.
• The Alaska State Fair is open and the kids are back in school.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Aug. 2023
• His eyes would light up, and mouth open at the push of a button.
  — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 29 May 2023
• The waiting list is now open for the 2024 Golden Vines in Madrid.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 7 Nov. 2023
• The event is open to all ages and tickets can be purchased at holidaybowl.com.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
• The museum had been open for two years when the slippers, which were on loan, were stolen in 2005.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2024
• The Royals blew the game open in the seventh inning by scoring eight times.
  — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 5 Apr. 2024
• It’s been open since 1922, so it’s had time to perfect its breakfast game.
  — Haley Laurence | [e-mail], al, 28 July 2023
• Gates open at noon and the music starts at 12:50 p.m. every day of the festival.
  — John Coffren, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2023
• The Legislature approved, and the joint unit was open by 1972.
  — Audrey Dutton, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
• Sobbing relatives peeled open body bags to get a last look or kiss the face of a loved one.
  — TIME, 25 Dec. 2023
• Your door is always open, but who has a seat at this table?
  — Tricia Despres, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
• Would you guys ever be open to being co-stars again in a show or movie?
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
• To get started open the Settings app and head to Accounts in the sidebar.
  — Justin Pot, Popular Science, 14 Dec. 2023
• Currently, the Blue Lagoon is open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 12 Jan. 2024
• The restaurant will be open 9 a.m.-10 p.m. daily for dine-in, take-out, and drive-thru service.
  — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2024
• The garden is open 24/7 and was built to educate the public about plants that do well in their area.
  — Janet B. Carson, Arkansas Online, 22 June 2023
• The bacteria enter the body through a break in the skin, such as a cut, scrape, burn, insect bite or open wound.
  — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 9 June 2023
• The event is open to the public, but tickets must be purchased in advance.
  — Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 29 Feb. 2024
• Minnow Mussels in Escabeche, $11 For a taste of the sea, by the sea, peel open a tin of these, Pattavina says.
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2023
• Our windows were open to the desert outside, the air all sagebrush and sunburnt dirt.
  — Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 30 Nov. 2023
• Sliding glass pocket doors open to the covered lanai with a fire pit.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 24 Jan. 2024
• When the chamber door swung open, the boy clambered carefully out onto the deck in the hot, late-summer weather.
  — Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024
• Initially, the program will be open to those referred by the justice system.
  — Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 17 Apr. 2024

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open

2 of 3 verb

• This door is hard to open.
• She opened her eyes and smiled at me.
• The car door opened and a beautiful woman stepped out.
• I opened my umbrella and stepped out into the rain.
• Would you mind if I opened a window?
• The door opened and closed so quietly that I didn't notice he had come in the room.
• This drawer is stuck. It just won't open!
• She comes home, turns on the TV, and starts opening her mail.
• The session opened with a moment of silence for those who died in the Maui fire.
  — Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• The Panthers opened a slim 21-10 gap over the Olympians at the intermission.
  — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2023
• As soon as the doors opened on Friday, fans grabbed their age 21+ wristband and their drinks.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
• It's also opened dozens of new walk-in centers around the country.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 24 Mar. 2024
• And so DeBose opened the show in her dressing room, closing a binder of blank script pages.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• In October of 2008, a bar opened in Boston called Drink.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 13 Jan. 2024
• The Chargers opened an enormous 40-0 gap over the Rattlers at halftime.
  — Ledeai, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2023
• Godwin also opens at No. 45 on the Emerging Artists chart.
  — Xander Zellner, Billboard, 4 Oct. 2023
• Training camp opens soon, Sept. 13 for rookies and Sept. 20 for the varsity.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2023
• The Featherweight opens with scenes of Willie in Connecticut.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2023
• The caller saw a man open the shed, speak to the minors and then lock the shed behind him, authorities said.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
• The oven door opens with a dramatic plume of steam, and the racks of cooked roasts are rolled out and then whisked into a nearby freezer for eight hours.
  — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• In the spring, an exhibition of photographs opened at Gagosian’s gallery on West 21st Street in Chelsea.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Their future is surely filled with more growth for their brand and even bigger doors to open than before.
  — Essence, 27 Oct. 2023
• Part of the renovations are meant to make way for a Four Seasons Hotel, slated to open in 2025.
  — Jenny Goldsberry, Washington Examiner, 29 July 2023
• Freeman, who is naked, lunges at officers after the door opens.
  — Devon M. Sayers, CNN, 21 Sep. 2023
• Disney and 20th Century were scheduled to open the film on Dec. 1.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
• The Bellagio, opened by casino magnate Steve Wynn, was designed to change all that.
  — Brett Martin, Bon Appétit, 8 Nov. 2023
• Schools in Lewiston were to remain closed Friday, while those in Portland would decide in the morning whether to open.
  — David Sharp, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
• The Royals, who had a 65-97 record last year, will open their first season with Matt Quatraro as manager.
  — Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 25 Jan. 2024
• Defiance Ridge Vineyards, about 30 minutes out of town, is opening its 40-acre vineyard to give folks a view of the celestial show.
  — Melissa Locker, TIME, 6 Apr. 2024
• The company has taken a slow and steady approach to expanding, however the first locations north and west of Texas have opened.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 6 Apr. 2024

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open

3 of 3 noun

• It’s always plugged in, and it’s designed to be out in the open.
  — Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 11 May 2023
• Moore said in all three instances the victims were alone and out in the open.
  — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Later in the cold open, Fineman is back on the phone as Pelosi.
  — Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2022
• Until now, which feels like the right time to step into the open.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• Damn the rich in the open and in the abstract, court them in the concrete and secret of darkness.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
• Some hardliners are calling to have the fight out in the open ...
  — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2023
• With first base open, Greene loaded the bases with an eight-pitch walk.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 25 Sep. 2022
• How safe and cozy can a cat feel sitting right out in the open on top of the water bill?
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2023
• Out in the open, the scorching heat scattered teachers to their cars.
  — The Arizona Republic, 21 July 2023
• The smallness of small town life means secrets have a way of spilling out into the open.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
• Yet, now the truth about the effectiveness of the Alpilean pill is out in the open for all to see - to Alpilean or not to Alpilean?
  — Jon Goodwin, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• PGA Tour members have until 5 p.m. on Feb. 3 to commit to play in the open.
  — Todd Kelly, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2022
• An issue that was not even on the patient's parents' radar was now out in the open.
  — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2022
• If your home office is out in the open, this one might be worth the investment.
  — Talene Appleton, Men's Health, 26 Jan. 2023
• The good news is that social media does bring this out into the open.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
• Getting the race out into the open is a good thing, Mark Barabak wrote in his column.
  — David Lautersenior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
• In other words, Biden’s mental decline is out in the open for all to see.
  — Becket Adams, National Review, 18 Feb. 2024
• That means the missile can be rolled out into the open with the fuel inside it, ready to launch.
  — Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
• Scores of Long Beach families drove into the hills south of Monterey Park to sleep in the open.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• And if the total increased by even a half-point from the open to close, the over is on a 6-0 run since December.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2023
• Heidi Klum and Tom Kaulitz put their love out in the open on vacation!
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 17 July 2023
• Most of the bodies found in the initial sweep of Lahaina were found in cars, on streets or in other places out in the open, Green said.
  — Eric Zerkel, CNN, 16 Aug. 2023
• Forces that have simmered just below the surface are spilling into the open.
  — Byrick Klein, Averi Harper, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2022
• The results came in ahead of consensus forecasts and Walgreens stock gained about 1.6% ahead of the open.
  — Wsj Staff, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2023
• Many more slept out in the open in the streets even as the airstrikes, including on southern Gaza, continued.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
• Countertop microwaves are, by design, meant to be kept out in the open.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
• But after the leak of the Dobbs decision last year, tensions on the Court have broken out into the open.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 28 May 2023
• Alix Earle and Braxton Berrios are putting their romance out in the open.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 22 Nov. 2023
• Before the cold open wrapped, Shaun White and Jon Hamm each made a surprise appearance.
  — William Vaillancourt, Rolling Stone, 2 Oct. 2022
• Martinez said that Republicans need to take their closed-door conversations about Trump into the open and say the quiet part out loud.
  — USA TODAY, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024