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How to use open in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, verb, noun

Open means able to have something pass through or along it. Example: “Come in – the door's open.”

Examples of open by meaning

adjectiveAble to have something pass through or along it.

  • Come in – the door's open.
  • The ice has cleared and the channel is open again.
  • she had heard stories about him, flutters of talk through open doors.2025, Megan Hunter, Days of Light, Grove Atlantic

adjectiveNot covered, sealed, etc.; having an opening or aperture showing what is inside.

  • The jewellery box was lying open.
  • Don't just stand there with your mouth open!
  • Along the street ran an open sewer.

adjectiveNot physically drawn together, folded or contracted.

  • She greeted them with open arms.
  • The book was open at page 23.
  • an open hand; an open flower; an open (loosely woven) fabric

adjectiveOf a space, free of objects and obstructions.

  • It was a large, open room.
  • Most of the site was occupied by huts, but there was an open area in the centre.
  • Soon we left the forest behind and we were out in open country.

adjectiveResulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the...

  • an open fracture

adjectiveOf a sandwich, etc.: composed of a single slice of bread with a topping.

  • You can buy bright yellow American mustard (which isn’t too strong!) in squeezy bottles and pipe stars on to hot dogs and open burgers or sandwiches.2001, Jennie Walters, Caz’s Birthday Blues (Party Girls), London: Hodder Children’s Books, →ISBN
  • Serve as open burgers.2012, Jo McAuley, “[Meat and Poultry] Turkey Burgers with Spicy Salsa”, in Hamlyn QuickCook: Low Fat, London: Hamlyn, →ISBN, page 152
  • Sunday morning in Wellow and we feast on open bagels with grilled ham, tomato and Swiss cheese, requested and highly praised.2015, Michael Robotham, chapter 17, in Close Your Eyes, London: Sphere, →ISBN, page 133

adjectiveNot of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or...

  • an open winter

adjectiveAvailable for use or operation.

  • Your bank account is now open.
  • Phone lines open at 10 pm.
  • This is the only option open to us.

More sentences with open

  • She opened the book to page 37 and began to read aloud.From the entry book
  • If you wanna get inside, you're gonna have to crow open that door.From the entry crow
  • A free, open Internet without advertising or paywalls would be an infotopia.From the entry infotopia
  • I just saw the video where he opens the door and gets the surprise! LOL!From the entry lol
  • She placed the workpiece on the bench, inspected it closely, and opened the cover.From the entry bench
  • Her uncle will go out and hunt for deer, now that it is open season.From the entry hunt
  • It's getting quite stuffy in this room: let's open the windows and air it.From the entry air
  • He had the same problem as she did getting the lock open.From the entry as
  • They're open twenty-four seven; you can go there any time you want.From the entry twenty-four seven
  • I couldn't open the door because it was on its chain.From the entry chain
  • Even with all the windows open, there is hardly a breath of air in here.From the entry breath
  • On the quarterback's first read of the situation, his target receiver was not open.From the entry read
  • I forgot my keys in and so we had to force (open) the door.From the entry force
  • It disgusts me to see her chew with her mouth open.From the entry disgust
  • I dread the burn of the disinfectant where it enters an open wound.From the entry burn
  • The heat from the open oven burned the air around me.From the entry burn
  • It didn't pay him to keep the store open any more.From the entry pay
  • He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.From the entry slit
  • He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.From the entry cloud
  • Once the My Computer dialogue opens, select Local Disk (C:), then right click and scroll down.From the entry dialogue

Meaning of open

  1. adjective Able to have something pass through or along it.
  2. adjective Not covered, sealed, etc.; having an opening or aperture showing what is inside.
  3. adjective Not physically drawn together, folded or contracted.

Full definition of open

Questions about open in a sentence

How do you use open in a sentence?
Open is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “Come in – the door's open.”
What is a short sentence with open?
“an open fracture”
What does open mean?
Open means able to have something pass through or along it.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: open (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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