Example Sentences

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Such is the harsh reality of life behind the bamboo curtain.

From The Guardian • Apr. 3, 2017

At a candlelit table, behind a bamboo curtain, just before the monkfish liver pâté arrived, Mr. Hannah proposed, Ms. Pastore accepted, and the servers quietly congratulated them.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2014

Sun, 49, with impeccable English and a press-the-flesh attitude, represents a new crop of Chinese leaders who are different from the previous, Soviet-trained generation, which issued edicts from behind a bamboo curtain.

From Time Magazine Archive

"We have no bamboo curtain, but some people are spreading a smoke-screen between us."

From Time Magazine Archive

The sliding doors were not closed; but the lighted interior was concealed by a beautiful bamboo curtain extending along the gallery front.

From The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories by Hearn, Lafcadio