Words similar to curtains
Example sentences for: curtains
How can you use “curtains” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Hey, ladies, pink curtains!"
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).
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.
For instance, adrenalin is also the common term in AE (not epinephrine ), though the latter is known; BE bath can be tub in AE but is usually bathtub ; an AE cookie is a BE sweet biscuit , but biscuit is a common alternative term in AE for a dry cracker (Remember Uneeda Biscuits ? They are crackers.); Americans bring up their children, as the British do, but they also raise or rear them; AE has both curtains and drapes , but they are different things: BE uses curtains for what AE speakers call drapes ; AE has both deck chair and beach chair , not, as implied, the latter instead of the former; likewise, AE has dressing gown as well as robe and bathrobe , but a dressing gown is more likely to be somewhat fancier; Americans know many games of solitaire , of which patience is just one; both crayfish and crawfish are used in AE, and it is about time that the old (British) fiction that Americans say railroad for what the British call a railway was put to rest: for at least two generations, one of the biggest companies in the US was called Railway Express .
In the apparel industry, more than a quarter of all workers now produce nonclothing items like curtains, draperies, house furnishings, and automotive trimmings; once again, employment since the 1960s in these areas has doubled, while it has dropped off dramatically for actual garment-making.
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