Example sentences for: curtain

How can you use “curtain” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Oberon's famous barbed greeting "Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania," makes little sense when Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer) sits glowering behind a curtain.

  • Facing an amphitheater auditorium is a fixed décor of classical Roman statuary and columns that looks far deeper than its 4 m (14 ft), a permanent stage “curtain” of trompe l’oeil depicting the ancient streets of Thebes.

  • The margins, Casanova says, may act like “a shower curtain of inhibition that prevents information from flooding adjacent minicolumns.”

  • The man who gave the Iron Curtain its name is the true "democratic hero of our age."

  • There were few mornings when Mary did not look up, as she bent to lace her boots, and as she followed the yellow rod from curtain to breakfasttable she usually breathed some sigh of thankfulness that her life provided her with such moments of pure enjoyment.


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