Significados de remain ajar en inglés

Having closed it, he reopened it and allowed it to remain ajar, as it were.

Uncle Edward was as curious as a woman, and the door remained ajar.

The door remained ajar, and, if escape was possible, now was the time.

I noticed that a door, probably that of a closet, had remained ajar.

Nor was this the worst: the door was not shut again but remained ajar.

The doors remained ajar for a few moments.

Again the door opened, and remained ajar.

Gunsaules had not appeared, and LeVere's stateroom door remained ajar, giving glimpse of the disarranged bunk within.

The sound came from an adjacent apartment, the little throne-room, whose door, he now perceived, had remained ajar.

The masked door remained ajar.

The door had remained ajar.

The barn door remained ajar.

The door remained ajar, and there were several guards posted in easy earshot, lest Seregil get any more untoward ideas.

It seems as though the gloomy door of winter had remained ajar, and as though the wind were pouring through it.

I heard a whispered hiss, "The sheriff's wife." The door remained ajar but Sheriff Corwin's shadow stayed at the threshold.

It opened immediately from the door; and, as the latter remained ajar, Rhoda Brook could see the proceedings without taking part in them.