Sentence examples for curtain-raiser from inspiring English sources

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.

Nascar's curtain-raiser, the Daytona 500, went ahead the next day regardless.

Mr. Carey's "Wily Overture," for string quartet, piano and percussion, was a sly, antic curtain-raiser.

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.