Example sentences for: curtains

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

  • Two of the very late self-portraits have the wartime blackout curtains pulled aside, as though Bonnard is exposed in more ways than one.

  • Other standard English words mislisted as New England words are package store a store selling alcohol by the bottle for consumption elsewhere, pshaw! an exclamation archaic everywhere, sheers sheer curtains, and verandah .

  • He had it framed by heavy curtains, surrounded by semicircular benches, and lit by gaslight, so people could sit and stare at it at night, as if in attendance at a play.

  • In Kenya, people have reported using sisal bundles stuffed into cracks to keep out mosquitoes [ 19 ] . Throughout Africa, communities report burning organic material, such as dung, wheat, wood from the Neem tree, and leaves to produce smoke, on the grounds that smoke repels mosquitoes [ 20 ] . Other communities have reported using permethrin-impregnated sisal curtains to protect themselves [ 21 ] . Semi-nomadic Samburu herdsmen reportedly cover themselves in the sand of dry riverbeds at night, while travelling through areas where the abundance of mosquitoes is particularly bothersome (M.

  • bag-blind bastard (derogatory and offensive) a person so poor that he or she lives in the meanest of dwellings with only empty sugar-bags for curtains (blinds as they are also known in the Caribbean).


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