Sentence examples for curtains tight from inspiring English sources

on a night, when everyone is asleep and the chances are everyone in your street is, smoke out the window, closing the curtains tight behind you, only the curtains smell of smoke, plus use the wind to your advantage, lean out, and blow your smoke in the direction of the wind, this makes a lot less get into the room.

She bloomed and thrived among her healthy, thick shrubs, heavy curtains drawn tight, and stoic silence.

Cellphones are handed in; land lines and Internet connections are cut off; curtains are drawn tight.

The whole system was set inside a black box surrounded by two layers of light tight curtains.

The Obamas draw a pretty tight curtain around themselves.

Trees closed in, a tight curtain of pine.

Those, such as night-shift workers, who cannot return to a normal day-night cycle should sleep in a room with light-tight curtains shielded from outside noise in order to properly adjust to an altered sleep schedule.

Doug Wead, a friend of President Bush and author of "All The President's Children," a book about presidential families, says Mr. Bush made the decision early on to draw a tight curtain of privacy around his daughters, even if that meant the only press they got was negative.

Electrical power will be integrated into the over-table system and light-tight curtains will enclose each table.

The 48th annual awards ceremonies at the Beverly Hilton were held amid a tight curtain of security, intensified due to potential terrorist action related to war in the Persian Gulf.

But theirs are some of the few houses still standing on streets that are now mostly abandoned; they live behind metal burglar bars on their windows and the curtains and shades pulled tight.