A curtain that can be lowered and raised onto a stage from the flies; often used as background scenery.
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Examples for "drop"
Examples for "drop"
1That tinkering saw the support for 'yes' drop to 49 per cent.
2However, he decided to drop out in 1981 during his second year.
3For different reasons, both parties are likely to see their vote drop.
4The fight to pressure the state to drop the case is on.
5She did, however, drop a hint about a possible new television role.
1Lee plopped down on the paint-splattered drop cloth that covered the polished wood floor.
2She carefully removed the items and laid them out on a plastic drop cloth.
3Barbara looked at the splotches that covered the drop cloth, cringed and sat down.
4I had spread a drop cloth on the floor while I was waiting for him.
5He pulled out several tiny ink caps and tacked them down to the drop cloth.
1The drop curtain is fast descending; only a yard of space remains.
2Never look at the audience from the wrong side of the drop curtain.
3Mine has a blush for every twig, and a drop curtain for every branch.
4In the cars the double windows, covered with frost, were about as transparent as a drop curtain.
5The orchestra had already commenced the prelude to a vaudeville turn, and the drop curtain had revealed the stage.
6Farther still, vision faint, remote and immaculate, the white peaks of the Sierra hung, a painting on the drop curtain of the sky.
7The hangings fell instantly like the drop curtain of a theatre, its rustle overwhelmed in the vociferous yell that rang to the echoing roof.
8Across this was a drawbridge, which was raised and dropped at fitting intervals, and the drop curtain was made to represent a massive castle door.
9The only Laugh in the Piece was when the Drop Curtain refused to work.
10I knew that when the storm started again, it would be instantaneous, a dropped curtain.
11Meanwhile we sit, as it were, facing a vast stage, in front of us a dropped curtain.
12With buttoned door and dropped curtains the little woman made haste to array herself in her finest raiment.
13From it dropped curtains, shimmering, nebulous as the marching folds of the aurora; they poured, cascaded, from the amethystine band.
14Through the dropped curtain they saw the world brokenly; the light in the cave was sunken and dim, the air cold.
15"The Drop Curtain," by Degas.