Sentence examples for stood wide open from inspiring English sources

an empty house and the door stood wide open.

The van door stood wide open and the driver was waiting nearby.

"For the first time the door to Uncle Romie's studio stood wide open.

All the doors of the old Gothic church stood wide open, straining to catch any errant breeze.

As we rode into the village we came upona convergence of old customs: there wasan empty house and the door stood wide open.

(The video of the Tebow pass that landed at Stephen Hill's feet as he stood wide open in the end zone on Saturday night is available here).

The door to his old ground-floor apartment on Lenin Prospekt stands wide open, and moss has spread over the threshold.

Thus in a 1770 watercolour of the Henry VIII gateway to Windsor Castle (one of more than 500 images by the Sandby brothers in the royal collection) a redcoat is shown lounging against the castle's ancient walls, chatting easily to two disreputable townsfolk, while the gate itself stands wide open to the street.

There is a slight tinge or ironic mental dissonance at play in this discussion, living as we do in the era of XKeyscore — how important is it to limit the government from one door, when another stands wide open?

Dr. Pina's office door stands wide open; we walk off the street directly into her waiting room and cross only one more threshold to get to her small exam room or her office.

All was well, except that he recalled having left the children's bedroom door only slightly ajar and now it stood almost wide open; he said he pulled it back to a five-degree position before returning to the restaurant.