Sentence examples for open the covers from inspiring English sources

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"I was taught to open the covers gently and to turn the pages by their top corners," he remembered.

Open the covers over the windows and the light can be so blinding that astronauts reach for their sunglasses.

His volumes lived on my parents' bookshelves, the somewhat po-faced flounder on the dust jacket of Der Butt (The Flounder) an unsettling but nonetheless compelling call to open the covers.

You get the feeling that you are handling a real book when you have it in your hands, and the ease of how the pieces pop-up when you open the covers is stunning.

And to open the covers and turn the pages is to hear in your head an incantation written across decades in different hands, voices rising off the page in a dear-diary chorus of anonymous confessions: "I arrived in the dead of night... then, in bed, I discovered the journals and, like so many others, read them, finally succumbing to sleep at 3 a.m".

Simply open the covers slightly (without separating the pages) until your book can stand balanced without any assistance.

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"When you open the cover, there are words saying that this is for internal use only, for purposes of criticism.

That poignancy increases tenfold once you open the cover of The Quarry and realise that it's about someone dying from cancer.

Open the cover of Jim Shepard's new collection of stories and one of the first things you'll see are the inevitable acknowledgments.

When we arrive at Bennu and are ready to open the cover, the spacecraft sends a command to the instrument to send power to the Frangibolt.

You simply open the cover and press play.

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