Sentence examples for over a curtain from inspiring English sources

Katharine Hepburn breaking Cary Grant's putter in two, Bette Davis describing herself as "the fat lady with the heavy eyebrows," Ingrid Bergman puzzling over dimming gaslight, Clark Gable watching Claudette Colbert's underwear being tossed over a curtain.

A cowhide rug on a wood floor, a length of natural silk draped casually over a curtain pole or a cable knit cushion and a sheepskin throw on a leather chair will all add visual interest and seriously ramp up the cosiness.

Hang over a curtain rod or across window space.

Then he realized that at the Friday night Super Bowl party at the Astrodome, he had stopped on the sawdust floor to gaze over a red curtain at a dozen prize beef cattle whose side-by-side rumps resembled those of an offensive line waiting for the snap.

The green water closed over her like a curtain.

"The pain is so deep and strong that a curtain descends over your brain.... Once, someone asked me what pleasure I took in riding for so long.

Skyscrapers and blocks of flats swell over hillsides, a curtain of transmitters forms the backdrop to the Bosphorus and building works fill the air with juddering noise.

Winter has dropped like a curtain over the East End of Long Island.

When we were children it could be spooky at times, especially when the mist rose and remained like a curtain over the fields.

There was a sliver of living space where a child sat on the floor, bent over a book; behind a curtain was a crude kitchen where Mr. Mahanoori's wife could be heard preparing tea.

Less than five years after Gatsby was published, the market would crash, and the Great Depression fell like a curtain over the festivities.