How to use "curtains" in a sentence

She always goes for a run in the evening, but this time she waits until he falls asleep in a chair in the lounge, and she puts a candle to the curtains

The curtains were drawn and more logs put on the fire

I got out of bed and opened the curtains

The place was relatively quiet, except for the muffled oceanic roar of the VIP crowd that waited in the main showroom, beyond the velvet curtains.

Tina wanted to stay in the wings throughout the performance, but she could do nothing more behind the curtains

The opening number was followed by a first-rate magic act in front of the drawn curtains

Less than ten minutes later, when the curtains opened again, the mirrors had been taken away, and the stage had been transformed into an ice rink; the second production number was done on skates against a winter backdrop so real that it made Elliot shiver.

Sitting in the dark theater, he smiled, not at the comic magician who was performing in front of the closed stage curtains, but at his own sudden, youthful exuberance.

There were papers everywhere, chairs lay on their sides, and one of the window curtains was half-torn and hanging down

I was at home at the time and writing in my study with the curtains open

Here I moved through areas which had been totally destroyed and others which were totally undamaged; houses with their curtains and their doors closed

Where there was no black powder, it was curiously like Sunday in the financial area of London, with the closed shops, the houses locked up and the curtains closed

The curtains of my study blew out of the open window from which I and the soldier had watched the dawn