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

Something told me that Alfred had come by the five-down train instead of the six-up, and I fairly reeled to the window and peeped through the venetian blind.

From The Melting of Molly by Daviess, Maria Thompson