wide open
Example Sentences
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The rise of skyscrapers with their wide-open interior spaces made it possible to organize offices and desks following scientific management principles to improve productivity, even down to how workers stuffed envelopes.
If the show holds a particular appeal to conservatives, and it does, that aligns with Montana’s political bent, along with the other wide-open spaces in the Western United States that don’t touch the Pacific Ocean.
From Salon
For stock, bond, and foreign direct investors, Argentina now presents a wide-open field.
From Barron's
At wide-open throttle, the raunchiness doesn’t come in wild quanta but in one smoothly linear, incredibly steep exponential function, with no interval for tactility and feedback.
“We make a run, we got two guys back, Buddy Hield gets a wide-open three for some reason on a full-court pass. Those are self-inflicted things. So it’s not anything Golden State did to us.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.