Sentence examples for pinned open from inspiring English sources

"I just hoped that no one was in front of me, and I kept the throttle pinned open.

Just the stills on the Internet of her hairstyle, and her eyes pinned open in Thatcherite command crack me up.

The video "Women in Film," on YouTube, morphs the faces of female stars, from the silent period to the present, in a continuous progression, making it clear that eyes may be freakishly pinned open (Crawford) or flirtatiously half closed (Marilyn Monroe), but they must be liquid and voluminous.

Now he's after the factory-like centers in malls, where passersby often gawk through windows at hapless patients with their anesthetized eyes pinned open to take a pulse of the beam.

Each larva was immerged in a drop of 1× PBS containing 10 mM EGTA, then opened dorsally and pinned open on a siligar covered plate with minutiens (∅︀ 0.15mm, Austerlitz insect pins®).

The degree of atherosclerosis was assessed by determining lesion sizes on both pinned open aortas and serial cross-sections through the aortic root as previously described but with some modification [ 38– 40].

"Whether it's using a table edge to pin open a stiff hardcover book, or using a long drinking straw to vacuum-draw an out-of-reach piece of paper, I never learn what I can do until I learn what I need to do".

The sight of a fallen church, doors pinned perpetually open by the wind, can be wrenching.

Each morning he is injected with a strong emetic and wheeled into a screening room, where his head is clamped in a brace and his eyes pinned wide open.

As well as Alex's staring deadly eye there is a floating eyeball alluding to his "treatment", in which his eyes are pinned wide open as he is forced to watch violent films and Nazi propaganda.

To set up a PIN, open the phone's Google Play Store app.