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How to use ajar in a sentence

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A magnetic safety interlock in the sample chamber prevents the laser from firing when the chamber door is ajar.
Noticing Vincent's bedroom door was slightly ajar, Cael pushed it open further and looked in and grinned.
He found the door slightly ajar, and pushed it on open, clearing his throat to warn the occupant of his entering, but Greg found the room empty.
What seems ajar is the loving family's refusal to acknowledge her boyfriend and her acceptance of this, albeit resentful.
I wonder at my life, it seems ajar. Is it so bad to long for relationship? Will He grant me kindred heart fellowship?
Mrs Dunn said she left a bedroom window slightly ajar for about half an hour to dry off some washing.
When there was no response he pushed it ajar and stuck his head in to look around.
Hurrying over to 818, she was not very surprised to find the door slightly ajar.
He leaves the front door slightly ajar to hear the early Dylan and Stones records playing from inside.
He quickly corked the bottle, then set it on top of the slightly ajar door as a trap for any who would dare disturb it.
There were four curtained windows through which we could see that it was already dark outside, and a door that was slightly ajar.
Bake for a further 2 minutes with the oven door slightly ajar, to help crisp the pastry.
At dawn's first light they reached the wrought iron gates of the palace, strangely ajar.
Behind a large oak desk cluttered with papers stands a cabinet whose door is ajar.
She passed by Lynx's room, and came upon one on the left whose door was left ajar, leaking firelight into the hallway.
They exited the room through the slightly ajar door, where they saw Xavier and Saulo using the phone, Xavier with tears in his eyes.
There was a window that was slightly ajar, to a room with an open door, where the two ARC men were holding a conversation.
She opened the ajar door, saw an old television on a wheeled cart broadcasting a fire downtown.
The one window was open and the door stood slightly ajar, yet she did not get the impression that the house was abandoned.
Peering round the doorframe into the dull landing, he saw Hannah's door open, and the bathroom door slightly ajar.
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She obeyed him, setting the window and the jalousie ajar after her as she had found them.
The door of the workroom stood ajar, and the stonecutter could be seen grinding a granite block.
The door was ajar, and he stepped into a little hall covered with ingrain carpet.
Then, as the door of the first reception-room was ajar, he at last ventured in.
It was broad daylight, and the door leading into the prim little hall was ajar.
Through the door left ajar she could see that the customer was not gone yet.
The door from the sala was slightly ajar, and the voice of Fidelio was heard there.
Then, leaving it ajar, he stood behind it with bent head and inclining ear.
His mouth was ajar, and down in his throat he snored screechily, like a planing mill.
All the office doors were locked except that of the purchasing agent, which stood ajar.
The hall door was ajar, and when I pushed it open, no one was in the hall.
There was another door at the end of the passage, and this was ajar.
The side door of the house was ajar and she opened it softly and entered.
The door of her room was ajar and the sound came down the corridor, a far-off faint sound of fretful crying.
He was in no uneasiness concerning his getting into the house again, for it was full of lodgers, and the door stood ajar all night.
The door that opened from it into the garden room was narrowly ajar.
The landing at the top was dark, but the door at the rear was ajar.
Edna had discovered it accidentally one day when the high-board gate stood ajar.
Their heads, which protrude from above the nooses, loll lifelessly, their curved beaks ajar.
Jayden's grandmother, Carolyn Sumpter, said minutes later, she noticed the front door was ajar and began the search.
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