curtain
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It is a curtain call of sorts—not a true romantic rekindling, but a welcome opportunity for closure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Legendary TV producer Chuck Lorre is opening up about his life like never before with the release of his autobiography, “Sitcom: A Memoir,” pulling back the curtain to reveal details of his personal life.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 27, 2026
According to the simulations, the impact violently displaced vast quantities of rock and seawater, producing a towering curtain of debris before the material collapsed back into the ocean.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2026
Asked if he is considering drawing the curtain on his career, he replied: "Yeah."
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
He knew a liar when she was sitting in front of him, wrapped in a filthy piece of stage curtain and balancing a broken costume crown on her head.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
“They would normally go home, close the curtains and not see anyone until 10 in the morning,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
"If it's sunny outside, open the curtains so the sun heats the room, then shut them when the sun sets to keep the heat in," says Rebecca.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
You can place curtains or blankets over your doors for extra insulation.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
The apartment where the suspect lived was quiet, with the balcony curtains drawn.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Penelope followed her to the far side of the stage, which was concealed from the audience by rows of heavy curtains.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Mr. Noseda seems slightly amused by the weirdness of these curtained interviews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
When they got closer - the entrance to the cave had been curtained off with brightly coloured saris - they saw a "little blonde girl" running out.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2025
Many people spoke to the room outside of the curtained area, but what they said was not included as official testimony.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
One votes in private, in a curtained booth, on intimate terms with an oversize ballot.
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2022
Open cars of flowers—like convertibles in some nightmare Rose Parade—crept behind the curtained hearse.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
He can no longer hold back this rage that he has been curtaining off with these civil gestures.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2023
Cedars-Sinai has recruited more staff and expanded areas to care for patients, including curtaining off places in the hospital as “alternative care units.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
The curtaining of the Carnegie disappointed a stream of hungry would-be customers on Monday, many of them tourists who went out of their way to test their tolerance for protein.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2015
Most householders and shopkeepers had already voluntarily followed the Government's request by extinguishing outside lights, curtaining windows, painting over skylights.
From Time Magazine Archive
Far-stretching as the race, and curtaining it over as some great tent may enclose on a festal day a whole tribe, the breadth of Christ's love is the breadth of humanity.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren
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