Sentence examples for Curtain raiser from inspiring English sources

Other highlights from the inaugural curtain raiser:.

But that was just a curtain raiser.

He began with the "Manfred" Overture, an appropriate curtain raiser.

But "Prince Igor" was only a curtain raiser.

The last movement, sometimes a minuet, is an exuberant curtain raiser.

The vote is also a curtain raiser for next year's presidential election.

A one-hour mountain bike race will act as a curtain- raiser to the main event.

It's a nicely crafted curtain-raiser.

Yet that would only be the curtain-raiser.

IT WAS a curtain-raiser for the battle to come.

Gravity provides an altogether more assured curtain-raiser.