Sentence examples for draperies closed from inspiring English sources

And so I would sit, curled up on the window seats under the huge windows of our London apartment, draperies closed to hide my tears, watching Lancaster Gate traffic rush by as Joni sang my thoughts.

At one point Hirst complains, "In my day, nobody changed!" Steven Rosen does some beautiful work with lighting design, as late night creeps its way to dawn, and then the draperies are closed and the lamps turned on to create the illusion of evening.

And while it's all a step back in time, even the valance drapery will close at the push of a button.

I scurried behind the couch, alternately opening and closing draperies, trying to get the sunlight to cooperate.

You can't reveal the man behind the curtain — or the bereft real mother inside the fairy queen — and then close the draperies and expect everyone to go on believing in the great and powerful Oz.

Some of our drapery traverse rods stick and can hardly be opened or closed.

A window-blinds and drapery store sold oxycodone pills until the N.Y.P.D. arrested one of the owners and the store closed.

FOR centuries, people have been manually opening and closing shades and draperies to let sunlight in or keep it out.

The belt buckle and the slightly curved line of the drapery fold in the underpainting are recognizable on the upper painting by close visual examination suggesting a small thickness of the pictorial layer(s) of the Ecce Homo.

Plus, you can always add a drapery or shade treatment to close off the view when necessary.

"I close the windows, the storm windows and the lined draperies, and it still doesn't help," she said.