fly open

Example Sentences

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Then “Moneyball” hit, and suddenly doors into baseball began to fly open.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2016

“Why does a car door not fly open in a crash?” one paragraph begins.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 28, 2015

I know your eyes fly open in the middle of the night, see your child, and you think, “Oh, my . . . .”

From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2015

"For a stretch of a few pitches, I'd be real spot-on with location, and then I'd kind of fly open and yank a few and miss my spots," Capuano said.

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2013

Her eyes fly open when she hears me move.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir