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

It blew a gale all the afternoon, and the dust was so bad one could hardly open one's eyes.

From Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916, from Robert Palmer, who was killed in the Battle of Um El Hannah, June 21, 1916, aged 27 years by Palmer, Robert Stafford Arthur

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

It was very wicked to open one's eyes during prayer, he knew.

From The Silver Maple by MacGregor, Mary Esther Miller

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