Example sentences for: curtains

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

  • Surprises spring up on all sides: new industrial complexes alongside sleepy farming villages, skyscraper towns blooming in the middle of nowhere, Hakka women in their traditional flat straw hats with hanging black curtains, water buffalo, and flashes of azalea everywhere.

  • Red curtains and exaggerated underlighting transform an old German opera house in Brooklyn, N.Y., into "The Cotton Club," where "a new act" is being staged.

  • 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).

  • Prior restraint is a secular sin, so no more compromise; rip away the Wizard of Oz curtains on all these pressure groups.

  • The cover story pulls back the curtains on Celebration, Fla., the Disney-owned town that opened 18 months ago.


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