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

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

One has only to open one's eyes to detect "in all its extent" the plot they have hatched, "the frightful system of destruction of public morality."

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by Durand, John

One can open one's eyes, one can breathe, one can look around him.

From The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)