Example sentences for: curtains

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

  • Readers can guess what is in store when Johnson yanks back the White House curtains during the Kennedy years.

  • 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.

  • Together, we draw the curtains on the third-floor windows and peer up at the back of the crepuscular neighboring apartment building to see if any French people are doing anything particularly French.

  • When he forgets the eye and the body and tries to appeal to the mind; when he blinds you with too-vivid zebra juxtaposed with too-vivid leopard so you can't see the dress; or when he overburdens the feminine torso with a short, floppy, bulky hoop skirt apparently made of hugely printed pastel silk curtains from a Las Vegas hotel room, topped by a short, bulky blue denim jacket with big brass buttons, then he starts looking too French, and by that I mean, theoretical.

  • 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.


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