Opened
Opened adjective - Not sealed or having been unsealed.
Sank
Both words in one sentence
- Bug opened two days before Pearl Harbor, being a box-office bomb that sank the Fleischer Studio, whose namesake founders were bought out and then fired by Paramount.
Source: Dueling Works / Film Animated - Unfortunately he caused the bridge to get so depressed that immediately after he opened it it sank into the swamp.
Source: Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony -
Among other things, he routinely abused and locked the mutineers in a cage on the Pandora's deck, and only opened the cage when the Pandora ran aground and sank, and even then, two were still manacled and went down with the ship.
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