open one's eyes

Example Sentences

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It is enough to read the papers, and open one's eyes, in order to feel willing to shout along with the French college students: "Power to the imagination!"

From Time Magazine Archive

I think the fewer books we take the better; they take up room,—and the wise way always seemed to me to read at home, and open one’s eyes and see abroad.

From The Brownings Their Life and Art by Whiting, Lilian

These "certain proofs" have been available for a long time; one has only to open one's eyes to see them.

From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August

I don't agree with a lot of it myself—we Airedales have always been conservatively inclined; but I am bound to say that three years in the Army open one's eyes to a lot of things.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919 by Various

Thus the air was so thick with fine snow, driven along by the furious storm, that it became very difficult to breathe and almost impossible to open one's eyes even for a moment.

From Some Pioneers and Pilgrims on the Prairies of Dakota Or, From the ox team to the aeroplane by Reese, H. B.