597 examples of openings in sentences
There were many minor openings, too, each guarded by a similar hollow door.
Here they stood, side by side, gazing on the scene that was outspread before them, through openings in the bushes.
The breathing pores, or stomata, of the leaves, are small openings in the epidermis through which the air can pass into the interior of the plant.
Each of these openings is called a stoma.
One of the ablest of recent openings is that of Mr. Galsworthy's Silver Box.
But either of these openings would have been disproportionate and superfluous.
There are few more effective openings than that of The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, where we find Aubrey Tanqueray seated squarely at his bachelor dinner-table with Misquith on his right and Jayne on his left.
Colonel Starbottle for the Plaintiff, by Bret Harte, is from the collection of his stories entitled Openings in the Old Trail, and is republished by permission of the Houghton Mifflin Company, the authorized publishers of Bret Harte's complete works.
You declined all those openings which I indicated to you, and you appear determined to push the matter to extremes.
At the bottom are two openings, with some projecting land between them, at the extremity of which there is a peak; these openings are doubtless rivulets of considerable size, and take their rise from the high land at the back of Cape Bowen.
At the bottom are two openings, with some projecting land between them, at the extremity of which there is a peak; these openings are doubtless rivulets of considerable size, and take their rise from the high land at the back of Cape Bowen.
To the westward of Point Dale the coast extends for about sixty miles to the south-west to Castlereagh Bay; in which space there are several openings in the beach, that are probably small rivers: one, ten miles to the South-West, may be a strait insulating Point Dale, and communicating with Arnhem Bay.
To the eastward of Cape Stewart, the western head of the bay, the coast is very much indented, and probably contains several openings or rivulets, particularly two at the bottom of the bay.
The eastern side has several openings in it, but the shores are very low, and of shoal approach.
To the westward of Cape Lambert, in latitude 20 degrees 24 minutes 30 seconds, and longitude 117 degrees 7 minutes, there are two deep openings, which appeared to be merely bays, but their bottom was not distinctly seen.
Thirty miles South-West by South from Cape Preston is a mangrove bight, with several openings communicating with a large lagoon, or body of water, at the base of a small range of hills.
There are openings left here and there in them, for the animals to go through and swim across the river, and at these places the Indians are stationed, and kill them in the water with spears, out of their canoes, as at the lake.
Nine miles further westward were two other small openings.
When out upon our road about 30 miles, near Ypsilanti, the thick forest we had been passing through grew thinner, and the trees soon dwindled down into what they called oak openings, and the road became more sandy.
Mr. Filley secured Government land in the oak openings, and settled there with his wife and two or three children, the oldest of which was a boy named Willie.
As we travelled westward the prairies seemed smaller with now and then some oak openings between.
The country was now level, with burr-oak openings.
The country was nearly level, the land rich, the prairies small with oak openings surrounding them, very little marsh land and streams of clear water.
Foreign matter drops through the openings of a grid to the floor, and the fibre is delivered on to a table, or, if desired, on to the feed sheet of the softener.
In these diaphragms, the openings for the delivery valves are made.
