Sentence examples for opened a present from inspiring English sources

My sisters forever humiliated me over a moment in fifth grade when I'd opened a present from my grandmother and declared, straight-faced, "I already have this".

And she always had that look when she opened a present from me, a look on the verge of terrible depression, as if she was thinking, You don't really know me, do you?

Do you never open a present again?

Yes, Eggers tells Toph after he opens a present, "Jesus died for your Christmas fun".

Denzil wants to open a present on Christmas Eve -- don't do that, Denzil.

Carefully I unwound the soft layers, as though I were opening a present.

In one, a child opening a present before his suit-clad father says, "Tell your assistant it's perfect".

"He's the sort of guy where you'd let your child sit on his lap and open a present," a former assistant in his department told me.

In his Rome apartment, he plays the piano and sits by the fire opening a present that he has bought himself and that he clearly loves.

Be it joy on the children's faces as they open a present or the surprise on people's faces at the pop of a champagne cork.

Ms. Martin, best known as a comedian, is a surprisingly restrained and dignified Aunt Eller, with a couple of genuinely moving moments (as when she anxiously watches Laurey open a present from her).