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
It was a personal and at times touching five minute curtain raiser for the main event.
From BBC • Oct. 4, 2023
Today is something of a curtain raiser for the U.S.
From New York Times • May 29, 2023
The Venice theater presents “Fam and Yam” as a curtain raiser for Harold Pinter’s more substantial and stylistically assured “The Dumb Waiter.”
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2022
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
