How to Use open season in a Sentence

open season

noun

• The past year and a half has been open season for headhunters in the food industry.
  — Beth Kowitt, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2017
• That could create an open season for kickbacks — a price no business wants to pay.
  — Bernhard Warner, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
• The rule sets the daily bag limit at five lake trout and creates a year-round open season.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2021
• Some praised the decision, while others felt the move would signal open season on more children's books.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 11 Mar. 2022
• Their contents, and your relationship to them as a couple, is open season.
  — Tom Rasmussen, Vogue, 18 Sep. 2023
• During grunion spawning season, there is an open season for gathering the fish.
  — Ernie Cowan Outdoors, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Quite frankly, he's injured now because of the open season that there's been on Zion Williamson in the paint.
  — Dan Gelston, ajc, 7 May 2021
• But, a yes to open season doesn't guarantee everything remains open.
  — Rob Kleifield, azcentral, 5 Apr. 2020
• There has been a lot of numerical wrangling of late about how rarely teams that open seasons poorly advance to the playoffs.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• During the open season, the daily bag and possession limit is 30 grunion per person.
  — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
• During the open season, the daily bag and possession limit is 30 grunion per person.
  — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 1 June 2026
• Red carpets have become open season for online critics to point out when a celebrity’s shapewear, or the sheer dress revealing it, is less than ideal.
  — Paul Schrodt, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 May 2024
• BlueSky’s ageist meme and lack of response to criticism indicate that ageism, however, is open season.
  — Sheila Callaham, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
• March and July are open seasons, meaning grunion may be taken by hand, but anyone older than 16 will need a fishing license.
  — Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 4 Mar. 2026
• At 25-2, VanDerveer’s team is one of the best in the country and in something of a wide-open season, has a good shot to win the whole thing.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Mar. 2021
• Too many people were still open season, even for those who protected themselves, the virus evaded the vaccines just barely well enough to ensure its survival and expansion.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 12 Mar. 2022
• This certainly explains why the Duffer Brothers chose to open season two just three days before Halloween.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 26 Mar. 2018
• During the open seasons, each state will use bag limits, aggregate limits and size limits for all recreational anglers in state and federal waters.
  — Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 9 May 2026
• The person possesses a license authorizing the hunting or trapping of the type of animal that was killed, and the animal killed was killed during the open season for that species.
  — Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 11 Nov. 2025
• But the big battle sequence that season 2 set up will open season 3 with a bang, judging by the latest trailer, which has all the dragons, fire, and blood Westeros is known for.
  — ArsTechnica, 29 May 2026
• Since then, it’s been open season for Sydney Sweeney boob jokes, especially in comments under the actor’s Instagram posts.
  — Leah Dolan, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024
• Required to hunt game animals during an archery-only open season or to hunt deer at any time in Collin, Dallas, Grayson, or Rockwall counties.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2021
• The Bears won three in a row to open season, but their inaugural venture into the ACC has been a smorgasbord of different ways to lose games.
  — Jeff Faraudo, The Mercury News, 19 Oct. 2024
• Perhaps most important, though, June 1 has for the last decade marked the opening day of what has been an increasingly ephemeral open season for the recreational harvest of red snapper.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 23 June 2018
• The 46 West Texas and Panhandle counties that are currently closed for squirrel hunting will now have a year-round, no bag limit open season for squirrel.
  — Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2021
• Andrew 4-0 (3) Senior goalkeeper Annabel Walsh and Thunderbolts open season with four straight shutouts.
  — Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2025
• Chronic confusion created during the annual open enrollment for Medicare — and the lengthy federal government shutdown — will make this fall open season for scams.
  — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 4 Nov. 2025
• Fans of the the Tennessee Volunteers will quickly close the book on the season-opening season of the 2019 season, while rival programs will bask in all of the orange frustration of the day.
  — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 3 Sep. 2019
• Kinder Morgan and Phillips 66 announced the project’s open season, which clues interested parties and potential customers into the proposal, before any permitting actually begins.
  — Sarah Henry, AZCentral.com, 25 Oct. 2025
• Mythos reportedly is capable of autonomously identifying and weaponizing undiscovered cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and would mean open season for cybercriminals without appropriate guardrails.
  — Robert F. Dees, Fortune, 15 Apr. 2026