21.   When the door leading from the kitchen slid open, Kimiko Hayashi, the matriarch of the house, came out carrying a tray for afternoon tea.

22.   When you drop your quarter in the German-made machine and the doors slide open, you are greeted by the cheerful strains of Euro-pop.

23.   Plastic doors slid open.

24.   As photographers jostled for a picture of the officers, the door slid shut, sealing off the rainswept street outside with a dull clang.

25.   As the train rumbled over a track switch, the subway jolted and tilted a bit, and the door slid open.

26.   In the first act, the doors slid open and a throne bearing the haughty Turandot and her maidens glided forward.

27.   Once, Anderson was trapped outside his hotel room with no pants when the door unexpectedly slid shut behind him.