Venetian blind
Example Sentences
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A panhandler enters a subway car, and every eye turns to the floor as smoothly as the slats of a venetian blind sliding shut.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019
A car passed slowly outside, its headlights illuminating the bathroom through an open venetian blind.
From The New Yorker • May 20, 2019
“If I fix this, you have to start the story with it,” Chris Christie told me, yanking the string of the venetian blind in the diner window.
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2014
From shore, the swell lines were stacked up to the horizon like a venetian blind.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Danvers rose from her seat, and quietly lowered the venetian blind, and Ellen again stole back to her seat.
From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by Bedford, F. D.
