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

Sometimes, you know, it takes a big thing to open one’s eyes.

From Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story by Tarrant, Percy

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.

It is not enough to open one's eyes on scenes; one must be able to be en rapport with them.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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