Venetian blind
Example Sentences
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A panhandler enters a subway car, and every eye turns to the floor as smoothly as the slats of a venetian blind sliding shut.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019
A car passed slowly outside, its headlights illuminating the bathroom through an open venetian blind.
From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019
“If I fix this, you have to start the story with it,” Chris Christie told me, yanking the string of the venetian blind in the diner window.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2014
From shore, the swell lines were stacked up to the horizon like a venetian blind.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of them was old Latham, the venetian blind maker.
From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
