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How to use opener in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Opener means a person who opens something. Example: “The late-night openers in the mall include two restaurants and a clothing store.”

Examples of opener by meaning

nounAn establishment that opens.

  • The late-night openers in the mall include two restaurants and a clothing store.

nounThe first game played in a competition.

  • The opener came from a Jarvis ball which struck Aleksandar Kolarov en route to a lively round of pinball between City players before it was poked in by Milijas.2011 January 15, Saj Chowdhury, “Man City 4 - 3 Wolves”, in BBC
  • England were on the scoreboard after only one minute, Wilkinson, who missed five penalties in his side's opener against the Pumas, knocking over a three-pointer from bang in front, despite boos from the crowd.2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport

More sentences with opener

  • You wouldn't, perchance, have a bottle opener on you, would you?From the entry perchance
  • Since the power was out, we used an old-fashioned nonelectric can opener.From the entry nonelectric
  • Since the power was out, we used an old-fashioned nonelectrical can opener.From the entry nonelectrical
  • Breweriana includes beer cans, bottles, openers, coasters, beer trays, wooden cases and neon signs.From the entry breweriana
  • Hey, you've got a bottle opener on your keychain, right? Would you pop this open for me please?From the entry pop
  • The Red Sox, having lost the opener and won the second game, lost the rubber match against the Twins.From the entry rubber match
  • The NRL season opener at the Olympic stadium will be a double-header: Dragons vs Eels and Souths vs Wests.From the entry double-header
  • When I tried to open a tin of soup, the ring pull broke off, and I had to use a tin opener instead.From the entry ring pull
  • Haaland was having his shirt pulled as he advanced onto Phil Foden's curling cross for his opener.2022 August 31, Simon Stone, “Manchester City 6-0 Nottingham Forest”, in BBC Sport. From the entry one-touch
  • The door openers were printed in batches of 3–4 per print session on each printer.2021, Frank J. Rybicki, 3D Printing in Medicine and Its Role in the COVID-19 Pandemic, page 117. From the entry door opener
  • For me, a well-made spritz is an ideal opener to the night.2019 May 9, Rebekah Peppler, “The Aperol Spritz Is Not a Good Drink”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Aperol spritz
  • Only Borell and Adam undertranslate this opener as "What brings you here, Adler?"2017, Geraldine Brodie, Adapting Translation for the Stage, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry undertranslate
  • Mac grabbed his letter opener off of his desk and went to sit in his chair.2016, Martin V. Schulte, edited by Amy Kushner Schulte, Genetic Drift, Schulte Books, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry fluffbutt
  • There are so many things that we experience that could be door openers for demons.2010, Don Dickerman, Keep the Pigs Out: How to Slam the Door Shut on Satan and His Demons and Keep Your Spiritual House Clean, page 93. From the entry door opener
  • “Openers to your left, sandbaggers to your right.” This is especially true in a limit game.2004 May 1, Albert H. Morehead, The Complete Guide to Winning Poker, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN. From the entry sandbagger
  • With your address and your garage door opener, a thief can drive right in.1995, Louise Rafkin, “Car Safety”, in Street Smarts: A Personal Safety Guide for Women, 1st edition, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry garage door opener
  • Hide your garage door opener, don't just store it in the glove box.1995, Louise Rafkin, “Car Safety”, in Street Smarts: A Personal Safety Guide for Women, 1st edition, HarperCollins, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC…. From the entry garage door opener
  • The majority of frozen retail seafood is now sold in wrapperless cartons with a tear strip opener.1970, Food manufacture: Volume 45. From the entry wrapperless
  • Then, with an opener, she uncapped both drinks.2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 410. From the entry uncap
  • After that, the fact of a Moussa Dembélé double cancelling out Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s opener seemed by the by.2019 July 28, Paul MacInnes, “Alexandre Lacazette suffers ankle injury in Arsenal friendly defeat by Lyon”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry by the by
  • We have identified three kinds of peripheral constituents: ad-nuclei (i.e., pre-nuclei, in-nuclei and post-nuclei), associated nuclei and IU openers.2019, Anne Lacheret-Dujour, Sylvain Kahane, Paola Pietrandrea, Rhapsodie: A prosodic and syntactic treebank for spoken French. From the entry prenucleus
  • With the Swifts calling for offside the striker was through and only a great save from McIlravey prevented the opener.2015, Steve Grossi, SWFL1: Missed Chances See Swifts Relinquish Top Spot. From the entry through
  • When the responder made a limit bid, the opener may already be in a position to name the final contract.2011, David Bird, Bridge Made Easy: Flash, page 5. From the entry limit bid
  • Rosenwinkel deployed his move more than once in the set’s opener, a sleek, rumbalike composition called “Our Secret World.”2008 February 28, Nate Chinen, “Technique That Glitters, Music That Hurtles Through”, in New York Times. From the entry rumbalike
  • Swinton frowned as one of the film’s protagonists downed a glass of oxblood, a stomach-churning opener to the meal the scene displayed.2022, Elliot Thorpe, World War When, AG Books, →ISBN. From the entry oxblood
  • At least, it was revealed to me, this famed clumper and opener- of-doors being one who didn't himself have any idea who he really was.2020, Randal Graham, Afterlife Crisis. From the entry clumper
  • Fans of last season’s intricate plot twists certainly won’t be disappointed with the Season 2 opener of FX’s legal dramystery (yes, that’s what I said).2009 January 5, Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, “DAMAGES Season 2 Review - FX”, in Collider. From the entry dramystery
  • I assume also that opener would have shown no interest in slam by either bidding 4NT or 50 after the slam invitation of 46.2001, Matthew Granovetter, Pamela Granovetter, The Best of Bridge Today Digest, page 113. From the entry invitation
  • Even the work of opening a safe with nitroglycerine or with a can opener places the criminal in a state of nervous tension.1933, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Investigation of So-Called "Rackets": Hearings, page 697. From the entry can opener
  • Davies, captain in the absence of the injured Aaron Ramsey, scored the opener as, completely unmarked just three yards out, he nodded in Broadhead's 22nd-minute corner.2023 October 11, Dafydd Pritchard, “Wales 4-0 Gibraltar”, in BBC Sport. From the entry nod in
  • The U.S. has rarely outplayed any opponent in its modern era of World Cup games, never mind a superpower that won its opener 6-2 over Iran.25 November 2022, Jonathan Tannenwald, “U.S. dominates England for long stretches, but plays to 0-0 tie at World Cup”, in The Philadeplhia…. From the entry never mind
  • After three event episodes in a row (the finale, Christmas special and season opener), “Tooth and Claw” is the first “regular” episode of Who we've had in a while.2012, Graeme Burk, Robert Smith., Who Is the Doctor: The Unofficial Guide to Doctor Who, →ISBN, page 78. From the entry who
  • The opener, Cardona's Light Conversation, was anything but -- Cardona and Rahel Vonmoos dancing mostly to a recording of a dense conversation about Kierkegaard's philosophy and other untweetable subjects.2010 January 6, Jordan Levin, “Disabled dancers heat up Winterfest”, in Miami Herald. From the entry untweetable
  • Out of the handles flipped the smooth blade and the serrated blade, which was dangerously sharp, the flathead screwdrivers, the Phillips screwdriver, the can opener, the awl.1997, Christopher Dickey, Innocent Blood: A Novel, →ISBN, page 91. From the entry smooth
  • Without sinking into fens of cinemology, which properly belong in another section of this wilderness, one can say for openers that all three critics cross lines continuously in practice.1971, The New York Times Book Review, volume 76, page 42. From the entry cinemology
  • But I recall that those tin openers ran hot opening tin after tin of rubberised peach quarters and pulverised fruit salad to fill the "hollow legs" of an expanding population.1987, Kerry Cue, Hang On To Your Horses Doovers, page 6. From the entry tin opener
  • Bellmark put the soily tin down on Elsie's best table-cover without eliciting a word of reproach, grasped it firmly with his left hand, and worked the opener round the top.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry soily

Meaning of opener

  1. noun A person who opens something.
  2. noun A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.
  3. noun An establishment that opens.

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Questions about opener in a sentence

How do you use opener in a sentence?
Opener is used as a noun. For example: “The late-night openers in the mall include two restaurants and a clothing store.”
What is a short sentence with opener?
“Then, with an opener, she uncapped both drinks.”
What does opener mean?
Opener means a person who opens something.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: opener (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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