Sentence examples for openings only to from inspiring English sources

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She created openings, only to have the door slammed in her face every time she most wanted to gain entry.

All three of these films posted solid if not fantastic, openings, only to get slaughtered the next weekend.

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All three indexes rose at the opening only to lose all of their gains in midafternoon before climbing in the session's final hour.

In Manhattan, Chelsea Clinton turned up at a West 20th Street polling site shortly after the 6 a.m. opening, only to learn that workers could not find her name on the voter rolls.

They moved in a sideways figure-of-eight, or butterfly-shaped, pattern heading towards the opening down one wall of the compartment, before being swept backwards onto the opposite wall, and then swimming back towards the opening, only to be swept back again.

In this task, a toy is placed into a plexiglass box, with an opening only to one side only (Diamond 1981).

He enjoyed encouraging moments, including the opening goal, only to err with his red-card challenge and, ultimately, disappoint.

Roddick, 28, had won his last four matches against Djokovic and engineered a break point in the opening game, only to put a backhand into the net.

Meanwhile, the Chorus are a vital presence, losing all their money in the opening scene, only to reappear in increasingly direr straits.

Thus the prince (Petey) dies in the opening chapter, only to be replaced by a new prince (Teddie) about whom Cinderella (Luisa) has ambivalent feelings.

The Jayhawks scored the game's opening basket only to fall behind before their comeback, before they frazzled the Ohio State star forward Jared Sullinger, before fans lobbed seat cushions onto the floor in celebration.

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