curtain
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The original studio canvas was painted in oil, but the curtain is painted in acrylic and water-based paint.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Rather than print the image on the curtain, Martínez Celaya and his team spent the past few weeks hand-painting it on canvaslike fabric on the floor of the stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Light-sensitive, “Invasion Picture” was installed in Atlanta behind a burgundy velvet curtain, beside photographs of fortunetellers’ façades.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Equally fascinating was his pulling back the curtain, so to speak, on the culture of football, particularly the NFL, where the expectation for players is to follow orders and “shut up and play.”
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026
A curtain was provided to hang like a screen, to give some privacy to the cots assigned to Madame Babushkinov, Penelope, and Veronika.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
David is never lucid again, and as death comes, under a starry night, Sarah and Robert open the curtains and wait for morning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
A prolific artist, Max created marketable work that was licensed for many consumer products, from shower curtains to planes and cruise ships, and even a line of "art clocks" commissioned by General Electric.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
But fearmongers are jumping even further ahead and saying that once AGI exists, it could mean curtains for the human species.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Jordan sewed sage green curtains to conceal additional storage spaces and further brighten the space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Aunt Daisy went to Phoebe’s bed, pulling aside the curtains.
From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis
Mr. Noseda seems slightly amused by the weirdness of these curtained interviews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
When they got closer - the entrance to the cave had been curtained off with brightly coloured saris - they saw a "little blonde girl" running out.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
People wishing to give testimony may do so orally in a curtained area with a stenographer, or do so in writing at tables.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
One votes in private, in a curtained booth, on intimate terms with an oversize ballot.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
Outside the curtained window was the summer heat of Madrid.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
He can no longer hold back this rage that he has been curtaining off with these civil gestures.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2023
Cedars-Sinai has recruited more staff and expanded areas to care for patients, including curtaining off places in the hospital as “alternative care units.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
The curtaining of the Carnegie disappointed a stream of hungry would-be customers on Monday, many of them tourists who went out of their way to test their tolerance for protein.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2015
In one year the F. W. Woolworth Co. sold 45 tons of candy, 5,113 miles of curtaining, 54 million handkerchiefs.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was curtaining off the entire end of the cabin where Virginia slept.
From The Snowshoe Trail by Edison Marshall
