"opening" is a correct and usable word in written English.
Generally, it is used as a noun to refer to the beginning of something (e.g. a speech or a meeting). For example, you can say: "The opening of the meeting was marked by an introduction from the CEO."
The moderator will ask an opening question, after which each candidate will have two minutes to respond.
Walker notes several new businesses opening up in town, and believes the worst has passed.
The Irish government has also been opening an eye that had turned the other way to avert its gaze from numerous Provo transgressions.
Yashin recently said that Nemtsov had hoped that "opening society's eyes to the crime" of Russian soldiers fighting on the side of separatists in eastern Ukraine would help stop the war.
A responsible government would surely now redesign the application forms for opening a free school so that applicants' personal information isn't strewn all the way through it, and see to it that materials are redacted and released quickly and cheaply.
Blair's A Journey sold 92,060 copies in its first four days on sale last week, according to Nielsen BookScan – the best ever opening week sale for an autobiography since the book sales monitor's records began, in 1998, and well ahead of Mandelson's The Third Man's performance, which sold 14,960 copies in three days when it was published in July.
Opening the bags of infant leaves of rocket and oak-leaf lettuce, basil and nasturtium, hot mustard and cool butterhead is a daily ritual that is as much a part of my life as a morning espresso.
Opening her speech at the Palace of Westminster in English, Merkel said: "I have been told many times during the last few days that there are very special expectations of my speech here today.
Ten years ago, Starbucks stores were opening on every corner, followed by the burgeoning industry of artisan coffee roasters.
