wide-open
Example Sentences
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But between the creature's rapidly flapping wings and wide-open mouth, he couldn't figure out how to grab it.
From Literature
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Somewhere deep in the limbic system, a synapse fires like a flare, tracing the old circuitry of migration and memory — that annual pull toward the wide-open deserts of the American Southwest.
From Los Angeles Times
From where I’m standing, all I can see is ocean and pavement and wide-open gray sky.
From Literature
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Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle After Another’ leads a wide-open field as the Golden Globes offer an early read on an unsettled Oscar season.
From Los Angeles Times
No matter who claims the championship trophy on Jan. 19, it will signal the start of a new, wide-open era.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.