curtain raiser
Example Sentences
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After the women opened the season on Saturday with their giant slalom on the Austrian glacier, the men battled poor visibility and welcome wintry weather in their traditional curtain raiser.
From Barron's • Oct. 26, 2025
As a wistfully ebullient orchestral curtain raiser, and one over in a flash, “Cool Cat” is well equipped to have a life of its own in various concert settings.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 15, 2023
"It's really exciting. How great that the men are the curtain raiser when normally in most sports it's the other way around?" she says.
From BBC • Oct. 25, 2022
That fall, Rivian held a public curtain raiser in Normal for its $70,000 trucks, which it says can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in about three seconds.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2021
It had placed Archie at a disadvantage for the first time as assigner because Rollo had only been the curtain raiser, a bit of amusement Obie had arranged to enliven the proceedings.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
