Sentence examples for drew aside from inspiring English sources

ROME — The Vatican drew aside, for a brief and puzzling moment, the thick veil that covers its internal business.

Instead of going into the hall to meet him, they drew aside to let him into the kitchen.

I drew aside the curtains and found a wide balcony looking out on the steely waters of the Bosphorus and, across the strait, dozens of mosques dotting the hills of Uskudar.

One of the great experiences of British cinema in the mid-20th century was to sit in the stalls as the curtain drew aside and an arrow hit a bull's-eye on a target, announcing a film by the Archers, the team of British director Michael Powell and Hungarian émigré screenwriter Emeric Pressburger.

It drew aside for a moment the many-coloured screen behind which there was a silent world full of the joy of life.

He put the drawing aside.

He then politely asked Stevick for assistance in drawing aside the cover of planks.

But on occasion, before critical meetings, you would see him draw aside and mumble prayers. 5.

The problem with these draws, aside from being unsportsmanlike, is that spectators are disappointed.

Occasionally, a curtain might have been used to augment the scenic effect, being drawn aside to permit upstage action.

Turley paces nervously, drawing aside the curtains on the room's only window, checking the peephole at the door.