curtain
Example Sentences
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The Edinburgh singer is performing before thousands of people at the city's famous Concert in the Gardens, supporting indie-rock duo Wet Leg as the curtain falls on 2025.
From BBC
The album was “Transference,” its cover a grainy seventies tableau — a boy slinking low in a golden wingback chair, viridian curtains pooling behind him, a table lamp casting an almost aggressively orange glow.
From Salon
Aside from being able to take Cooper and Arnett behind the curtain of the comedy scene, their relationship added an extra level of authenticity to the film and to each other’s performances.
From Los Angeles Times
She greets me from behind a giant theatrical curtain in her lab.
From BBC
Something annoying, too, of course, and something dangerous to anything flammable nearby: curtains and stray bits of paper.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.