Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: opens
IPA transcription: ['oʊpənz]
Usage examples
  • The door closes behind us, but it opens again."
  • Then he opens his wallet, takes out the bottle containing clear liquid, and takes a nip.
  • Colours dance before her eyes as the gullet opens and closes, trying to draw in the perch's head.
  • It opens its shells, then shuts them rapidly; and, each time this happens, a cloud of young Oysters is puffed out like smoke.
  • I had it loaded, and was in the act of levelling it, when Bob said, "Suppose we was to let them chaps get a bit nearer, Hal, afore we opens fire.
  • Then a mouth opens, shoots out a pair of concertina-like lips, and changes into a funnel; and the poor little fish disappear into a chasm, like threads into a vacuum cleaner.
  • "The political hypocrites who control this Congress," he shouted, "told us we were to settle the question of Power--and it is being settled behind our backs, before the Congress opens!
  • But as this opens a new era in the fortunes of New Amsterdam I will here put an end to this second book of my history, and will treat of the maternal policy of the mother country in my next.
  • Mrs Lammle opens her nostrils and bites her under-lip; Mr Lammle takes his gingerous whiskers in his left hand, and, bringing them together, frowns furtively at his beloved, out of a thick gingerous bush.
  • Alas, it is another of those prickly fish, she notices at once, one of those confounded tit-bits that are only to be looked at, but which neither teeth nor throat are ever glad to deal with; and she opens her mouth and chokes and spits.