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Meanings of curtain (curtaining) in English
Synonyms
Examples for "mantle"
Examples for "mantle"
1
That surely means the footballer of the year mantle will pass elsewhere.
2
That was a mantle he carried with immense dignity and great courage.
3
Uranium certainly is; thorium-thestuff of this incandescent gas mantle-certainlyis; actinium.
4
Your job is to create new heroes to take up the mantle.
5
The robe must be of spotless white; the mantle or scarf blue.
1
A pall of corruption hangs over several countries, seemingly impossible to diminish.
2
A pall of dense cloud, many miles in thickness, enfolds the earth.
3
There was a coffin in the boat, covered with a simple pall.
4
The pall-bearers having deposited their charge in front of the pulpit, Rev.
5
The silence in the room was deathly, the heat intense, heavy, pall-like.
1
The drapery wavered a moment; then settled once more into its folds.
2
She swept aside the drapery and entered-thestately lady of the house.
3
He jerked the drapery aside and found himself in a dark corridor.
4
Some of the women gather them round them in folds like drapery.
5
By the way, do you remember the drapery covering the bedroom wall?
1
The drums, the piano and the violin give her a fluttering drape.
2
You can see through that drape if there's enough light behind it.
3
He was told to go home and drape his home in black.
4
In its highest window a small man held a blood-red drape aside.
5
Jondalar pushed the drape aside and was surprised to see his brother.
1
An exhibition of fabrics can spark an idea for a window treatment.
2
Consider bold artwork, a statement window treatment, or unexpected decorative accessory.
3
What type of window treatment will I use?
4
That all-important colour will be an awesome backdrop to your furnishings, window treatment and wall art.
5
A charming window treatment, in a room whose color scheme is carried out in the garden, giving a unique and delightful touch.
Usage of curtaining in English
1
The windows were broken and but illy repaired by the curtaining cobwebs.
2
Under it the curtaining writhed-outfrom it spurted thin cascades of cubes.
3
The curtaining of bedroom windows has already been discussed at some length.
4
There are neutral shades, damasks for curtaining, and medium-weight stripes for upholstery.
5
He was curtaining off the entire end of the cabin where Virginia slept.
6
Outside the snow came harder, curtaining them off from the world.
7
I could feel my headache returning, the fatigue curtaining down again.
8
Regarding their future, his political anxieties were a mountainous defile, curtaining the outlook.
9
Trees closed in, throwing tall branches up into the night, curtaining the starfield.
10
The outer space was dark again, with the same lights beyond the curtaining.
11
He lay on his back, her hair curtaining him from the navel down.
12
Magiere tilted her head forward, dark hair curtaining half her face.
13
Swiftly from each side of the gap a metal curtaining of the cubes joined.
14
The thick mass of her curly chestnut hair hung limply, curtaining her heart-shaped face.
15
The charm of simplicity is always to be borne in mind when curtaining a room.
16
He glanced up- acloudwas rolling from beyond the cliffs, was swiftly curtaining the blue.
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Frequent collocations
Curtaining through the time