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Example sentences from the Web for curtainsThe site was blacked out at all times, with curtains and painted exterior windows. Inside the CIA’s Sadistic Dungeon|Tim Mak|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST The result looks like curtains of red and green beams in the night sky. The Sun Is Pummeling Earth. Now What? Solar Storms for Dummies|Lizzie Crocker|September 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST Inside, cabinets of bones three rows high are concealed by curtains pinned with ribbons and handwritten messages. Did the Virgin Mary Warn Rwanda’s Holiest Town of the Genocide?|Nina Strochlic|April 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST Other than a glimpse of the curtains, little of the Cambridges' renovated Kensington Palace home can be seen in the photograph. Prince George's New Instagrammy Photos|Tom Sykes|March 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In one, a father is upset that his children's clothes are made out of curtains. ‘Sound of Music Live!’ Review: The Hills Are Barely Alive|Kevin Fallon|December 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST Gallus told him and he vanished through the curtains, whence he returned presently, beckoning them to advance. Pearl-Maiden|H. Rider Haggard A connoisseur (again on reference behind the curtains) was one of those wealthy men who could swallow anything. Not only large substantial things like furniture, but curtains and the patterns of stuffs and the fringes of quilts and cushions. Bliss, and Other Stories|Katherine Mansfield Your two poles supporting the roof may help you to partition off the sleeping places, either with boards or with curtains. With the Harmony to Labrador|Benjamin La Trobe It terminated in a laugh, and they were suffered to proceed without the curtains having been withdrawn. Athelstane Ford|Allen Upward
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pl ninformal death or ruin; the endif the enemy see us it will be curtains for us a hairstyle in which the hair is parted in the centre of the forehead and curved out over the temples Words nearby curtainscurtain, curtain call, curtain lecture, curtain line, curtain raiser, curtains, curtains for, be., curtain shutter, curtain speech, curtain time, curtain-twitcher Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to curtainsextinction, death, exit, taps, bitter end, end of the line, lights out |