Wondering how to use Curtain in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as drape or render.
Curtain meaning
- A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
- A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
- The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
Synonyms of Curtain
Using Curtain
- The main meaning on this page is: A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light. | A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater. | The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises.
- Useful related words include: drape, render, provide, supply.
- In the example corpus, curtain often appears in combinations such as: the curtain, curtain on, curtain and.
Context around Curtain
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Curtain
- In this selection, "curtain" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, shutter, expanding, ted, raiser, uses and followed stand out and add context to how "curtain" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a massive curtain of clouds and after the curtain was raised. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "curtain" sits close to words such as bello, doubling and encouragement, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with curtain
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Also, Ahasuerus is the ultimate failson — impetuous, ineffectual, at one point draping himself in a curtain and sobbing. (18 words)
Advocates are hoping that New York’s public database will begin to pull back the curtain on shell companies. (19 words)
A sound-deadening curtain has been installed to temper noise from the pickleball courts at Deerpath Park in Vernon Hills. (20 words)
As a massive curtain of clouds lifted, we could see part of the Serengeti plains far beyond on the left, the sled-shaped Lake Natron way off in front and the remote volcano to our right, its top crowned with a cloud mass bigger than the mountain. (47 words)
So these are all things -- some of them are more kind of in front of the curtain and some of the more but behind the curtain, but you add on them up and each one of them, I think, is a pretty significant growth driver. (45 words)
As he emerges for the encore in a jewel-studded dressing gown for a karaoke duet with a virtual Dua Lipa on “Cold Heart” – his disco-fied “Sacrifice” – the final curtain clearly beckons, and we’re in for a teary send-off. (42 words)
Example sentences (20)
So these are all things -- some of them are more kind of in front of the curtain and some of the more but behind the curtain, but you add on them up and each one of them, I think, is a pretty significant growth driver.
Still in the prototype stage, “Man on the Curtain” uses a smartphone connected to a projector to throw a moving shadow of a man doing various energetic activities onto a curtain.
As ejecta escapes from the growing crater, it forms an expanding curtain in the shape of an inverted cone; the trajectory of individual particles within the curtain is thought to be largely ballistic.
Early focal-plane shutters designed from the 1930s onwards usually consisted of two curtains that travelled horizontally across the film gate: an opening shutter curtain followed by a closing shutter curtain.
Shortly after the curtain was raised there was a disturbance in the back of the theatre, caused by latecomers attempting to enter the auditorium, and a shout of "Bring down the curtain!", at which Mugnone stopped the orchestra.
The advantage of this design (produced by Ted Curtain Engineering, Curtain being a fellow Guinea Pig) was the virtual elimination of factors able to interfere with accurate results—for instance ambient humidity or temperature.
Advocates are hoping that New York’s public database will begin to pull back the curtain on shell companies.
A group of Broadway theater owners and producers is leading an effort to lower the curtain on plans for a Times Square casino.
Also, Ahasuerus is the ultimate failson — impetuous, ineffectual, at one point draping himself in a curtain and sobbing.
An all-European curtain-raiser here with rising star Dolidze making a bid to break the middleweight top five and see off the 'Italian Dream'.
And in a particularly creepy image, “The Ghost of Kohada Koheiji,” a ghoul uses his skeleton hands to pull down a curtain and peer into the bed of the lovers who murdered him.
As a massive curtain of clouds lifted, we could see part of the Serengeti plains far beyond on the left, the sled-shaped Lake Natron way off in front and the remote volcano to our right, its top crowned with a cloud mass bigger than the mountain.
As he emerges for the encore in a jewel-studded dressing gown for a karaoke duet with a virtual Dua Lipa on “Cold Heart” – his disco-fied “Sacrifice” – the final curtain clearly beckons, and we’re in for a teary send-off.
A sound-deadening curtain has been installed to temper noise from the pickleball courts at Deerpath Park in Vernon Hills.
At 6 p.m., the curtain behind the window opened to reveal Barnes, who reporters wrote could be seen lying on a gurney and covered by a white sheet.
Backstage, Mike handles the technical aspects, though he's recently stepped out from behind the curtain to gain more experience hosting and performing.
But Colchester United’s summer signing insists there will be no room for sentiment when they host his former team Swindon Town, in their League Two curtain-raiser.
But regardless of these big names, the awards show isn’t televised and remains an exclusive event, showing recognition behind a curtain and not to the public eye.
But this was authorial sleight of hand—a decision, by Neihardt, to close the curtain on a mournful, elegiac note.
Certainly few would anticipate such weighty goal returns from the duo once again in 2023-24, albeit Connor Ogilvie striking the post from long-range late in the second half of Saturday’s curtain-raiser.
Common combinations with curtain
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the curtain 108×
- curtain on 22×
- curtain and 14×
- curtain down 12×
- curtain call 11×
- curtain raiser 10×
- curtain is 7×
- curtain to 6×
- iron curtain 6×
- curtain of 5×