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
Suddenly the venetian blind that hung before the door of a bedroom farther on swayed out before a hand variously ringed to emit a lady in a pink lawn dress with apt embroideries.
From The Pool in the Desert by Duncan, Sara Jeannette
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
