Sentence examples for the airlock opened from inspiring English sources

When the airlock opened and the green light was on, turned the holder slowly clockwise about 30° until stopped, made sure to hold it firmly so that it was sucked in slowly by vacuum.

You have to enter a crudely created airlock – open one door, close it, then open the next – to make sure Ann Veronica Janssens' installation doesn't escape.

Go, go, go!" so I stepped into the airlock, closed the hatch, depressurised it, opened it – and away I went.

Engineers later said a valve in the suit, possibly activated by a power surge in the airlock where it was stored, had opened when it should not have and released part of the nine pounds of water stored in a suit tank.

The pair will enter an airlock before opening its hatch and heading outside.

To his surprise, the doors opened with a whoosh, like an airlock on a spaceship.

The Engineer forces open the lifeboat's airlock and attacks Shaw, who releases her alien offspring onto the Engineer; it thrusts an ovipositor down the Engineer's throat, subduing him.

The spacewalkers were back in the airlock before noon.

Outside the airlock, the Zen of space took over.

Swishing through the airlock, clumping down the steps, the hall turns out to be a great, arching, softly lit cavern.

During a Q. & A., a man asked whether the Colonials' use of the "airlock" as an execution device — ejecting the condemned into outer space — was truly justice.