Example sentences for: curtain

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

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

  • Every effort is made to sustain an Elizabethan atmosphere, with curtain times heralded by trumpeters in Renaissance doublet and hose.

  • No one looked behind the curtain.

  • Reviews of this tale of a bisexual Hungarian writer in 1970s East Berlin use such terms as "Proustian" (Eva Hoffman, New York Times Book Review ) and "masterpiece" (Stanislaw Baranczak, the New Republic ). Praise goes to the novel's lyrical prose, innovative (some say "difficult") structure--which includes a novel within the novel--and its arresting depiction of life behind the Iron Curtain.

  • The old town was once enclosed by high curtain walls; though today only the western curtain and Shiavo-Lando Bastion survive.


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