Sentence examples for curtain fails from inspiring English sources

In windowless way stations, the so-called privacy curtain fails to protect neighbors who rehearse case histories replete with details meant only for their doctors' ears.

Except there is a hitch: the middle part of the curtain fails to drop, obscuring the new message until some frantic tugging backstage brings it down.

Sheets taped to windows as makeshift curtains fail to disguise 10 or more people piled up watching TV in tiny front rooms.

In both cases, the side curtain airbags failed to deploy, surprising in a crash of this type and severity, according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the nonprofit group financed by the insurance industry that released the test results on Wednesday.

Mr Farage himself is running in South Thanet in Kent, and has said it will be "curtains" for him if he fails to get elected to Westminster.

If he fails, then it's curtains for serious competition in the NHS.

Possible Festivus poles include an old lamp pole, curtain rod or even a long aluminum baseball bat if all else fails.

Then, as the reveal of the winner was to happen, a circuit breaker blew, power went out and the dramatic drop of the curtain surrounding the car failed.

But the effort is wasted if the company fails to connect with the audience at the visceral level when the curtain rises each night.

Mr Pistorius alleged that officers had moved two fans, the duvet and curtains but his lawyer again failed to raise this issue with officers, Mr Nel says, adding that blood spatter on the objects adds more doubt to the athlete's version of events.

These included two female patients who were left partially exposed when theatre staff came to collect them and failed to pull the curtain completely around their bed.