Sentence examples for a curtain when from inspiring English sources

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Moholo-Moholo recalled playing drums behind a curtain when working with white musicians, or taking the white pianist Chris McGregor for a drink in the townships with bootpolish on his face.

The warrant officer testified that Ms. Siddiqui, who had been out of sight and behind a curtain when he had entered the room, grabbed the rifle and hoisted it to her shoulder while aiming it at the Army soldiers and F.B.I. agents in the room.

"I beseech The Times not to facilitate government acting like the Wizard of Oz — behind a curtain when even stated reasons for doing so make no imaginable sense," David Steinhardt of Hancock, Vt., wrote, complaining about "pointless blind quotes from government officials that can easily serve to mask unaccountable half-truths and lies".

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The other patient and her visitor were behind a drawn curtain when the assailant entered the room, the chief said.

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Two hours before a Friday night curtain, when he should have been eating his dinner, he talked about what the experience had meant, and done, to him.

The evening's biggest splash of color may be at the final curtain, when a nicely tinted rooster picture in the form of a giant postcard descends from the flies and sends the audience home with its cock-a-doodle-doo.

The moment played out like a curtain call, when an actor leaves his character in the wings and you think, "So this is who he really is".

"I want to take readers behind the curtain when big developments happen and give them a taste of what really went on in the room.

I was reading Brian Evenson's The Open Curtain when her now-infamous "memorandum from prison" was leaked to a late-night talk show.

I know what's behind the curtain when Toto pulls it back, and I know what the wizard looks like".

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