curtain
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Giving evidence for the second time, from behind a curtain, Nye told the court of her fear when the three accused went to her property.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
That’s a major theme of the Tony-nominated musical “Water for Elephants,” and living proof is on stage at the Hollywood Pantages Theatre an hour before the curtain rises on opening night.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Josh pulls back the curtain to reveal what he saw inside Arthur Ashe Stadium at 3 a.m.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Their ventures were most successful when they spilled royal secrets, offering peeks behind the palace curtain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
The first one had a strange armor-wearing creature on her shoulder and expert bangs sweeping across her forehead like a black curtain.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
The construction site will be wrapped with underwater silt curtains but Leidich worries the marine lakes will be contaminated by sediment plumes.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
But fearmongers are jumping even further ahead and saying that once AGI exists, it could mean curtains for the human species.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
But there are also rare moments when the curtains are pulled back, and the reality of the debate within the corridors of a central bank are made visible.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
She added: "We initially had to play inside in darkness with the curtains closed before getting the UV-resistant film on our windows."
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
I glance at the thick black curtains behind him.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
Mr. Noseda seems slightly amused by the weirdness of these curtained interviews.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
The atmosphere among a crowd of just over 6,000 - in a 24,000-capacity arena where the upper tier was curtained off - was muted at times during the doubles.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
Pipeline opponents had criticized the Wednesday meeting because oral testimony was only accepted in private to stenographers in a curtained area in a hotel ballroom.
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
We now slowly ascended a drive, and came upon the long front of a house: candlelight gleamed from one curtained bow-window; all the rest were dark.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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
In one year the F. W. Woolworth Co. sold 45 tons of candy, 5,113 miles of curtaining, 54 million handkerchiefs.
From Time Magazine Archive
She passed through a curtaining; then as swiftly as she had gone she returned through the hangings, tresses braided, a swathing of golden gauze about her.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
