Sentence examples for broken curtain from inspiring English sources

Sarah Callaghan is garnering plaudits for her first fringe hour, which is about her struggle to escape council-estate life in Uxbridge, west London; being trapped in a bedroom with a broken curtain rail, the planes leaving Heathrow taunting her overhead.

Images of Rihanna on a bed in a room while singing are shown, with objects breaking, curtains falling and roses burning in reverse effect.

"City Hall to Decide Fate of Temple to the Hamburger". McDonald's had slashed the pasta curtain and broken its world record for daily hamburger sales when the Italian flagship restaurant opened in Rome's elegant Piazza di Spagna.

When a curtain of water runs off the roof and hits the Rainhandler, the louvers break up that curtain into droplets and disperse it in a two- or three-foot-wide swath around the house.

This is handy as a girl because sometimes you break things like curtain rails – ahem – or buy flatpack furniture too tricky to master alone.

Then, when a curtain of water runs off the roof, and falls several inches from the edge of the roof to the Rainhandler, the louvers break up the curtain and disperse it in a two- or three-foot wide swath in front of the house.

As we approached the western side of the gulf, our boat heaved and smacked along a shoreline probably little changed from when Vasco Nuñez de Balboa first saw it, in 1501: waves exploding against basalt boulders, a drab green curtain of forest broken up by the pink of guayacan trees in bloom.

In this context, the comment about the language staff used was an indicator of the lack of respect shown, which included a shower room where the curtain rail was broken and people's body shapes could be seen through the frosted glass.

It'll be very cool when I break through the curtains for the first time: 'Here I am!' ".

A vivid picture from the past Flashes on my inner eye, As if the moon were breaking through The curtains of a cloudy sky.

Other windows were broken throughout the 11-story building, with curtains fluttering out through the broken glass.