Sentence examples for curtain status from inspiring English sources

William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan was born in Buffalo, N.Y., to Irish immigrant parents who'd managed to scramble up the ladder from "shanty" to the lower rungs of "lace curtain" status.

If only there was a shower curtain to reflect your status as one of the world's most elite mathletes.

Buildings were also built against the west curtain wall, probably high-status apartments.

By requiring citizens to live in glass houses without curtains, totalitarian societies deny their status as individuals, and "this transformation of a man from subject to object is experienced as shame".

It was intended as a status symbol, although it followed the medieval curtain wall type, which at the time was becoming outmoded and superseded by the tower house.

Curtain up.

A curtain of curtains".

Nor curtain rings.

And that curtain.

The curtain fell.

A curtain falls".