Sentence Examples

1. The door to the roof had been left ajar, but Harry thought nothing of it.
2. When I came back I noticed that your front door was ajar.
3. A small room in the front of the house, on the fourth story, at the head of the passage was open, the door being ajar.
4. But, before the guard with the gimp could pull the door closed behind him, a palm struck the wood, leaving it ajar as the echo dwindled.
5. Shirley presses forward the moment the door is ajar, so I hurry her into the living room.
6. Seeing my reaction, she gasps exaggeratingly, her eyes wide and her mouth ajar.
7. At last I pulled open a heavy door which stood ajar, and found myself in an old, ruined chapel, which had evidently been used as a graveyard.
8. At the top of the stairs, slivers of light spilled over the top step onto a platform where a door swung ajar.
9. A mouldering entrance door, standing slightly ajar, led into darkness.
10. I left the door to the secret room slightly ajar and returned to the baskets.