open, sesame
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
phrase
Example Sentences
- "As we come to the gate (the guy driving says, “Open, sesame”—really!), it swings open to reveal a 20-foot-high wall-of-water fountain and a broad avenue lined with palm trees."
- "He said a boisterous “Open, sesame” and the door swung wide."
- "Janesco clumped to the command console and said the scientific-age equivalent of “Open, sesame.”"
- "“You know me, Garbles, I’m your bud. Whacha got there?” Frank reached out and tried to grab the page, but Gary saw it coming and dodged. / “My hands only,” said Gary. “Look, but don’t touch.” / “OK, OK. Open, sesame.”"
- "“Habit is ten natures,” went on being proclaimed in my ears; and at last it came home to me as a weighty saying, which might contain the educational “Open, Sesame!” I was in quest of."
- "This is where education steps in, crying, “Open, Sesame!” to the locked secrets of nine-tenths of a universe, and causing to pass before the eye the variegated life and literature of nations inhabiting the uttermost parts of the earth."