How to Use final curtain in a Sentence

final curtain

noun
  • And for his final curtain call?
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025
  • The final curtain fell four hours later.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 16 June 2026
  • Perhaps a soft vignette or fade to black, or a final curtain over the whole thing.
    — Steffi Cao, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2025
  • There is no final curtain here, not really.
    — Michelle Hyun Kim, Pitchfork, 10 Jan. 2026
  • There is no final curtain here, not really.
    — Morgan Enos, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
  • If a tragedy is named after a woman, she’s not supposed to make it to the final curtain, let alone live to have gray hair.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • When the final curtain dropped, he was left with one authentic casket in his possession.
    — Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Does the titular showgirl have more coming before the final curtain call?
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Sep. 2025
  • One of music's most elusive acts may have just had their final curtain call — at least for the immediate future.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 4 June 2023
  • For now, visitors are making memories — just in case this truly is the final curtain call.
    — Ross Dimattei, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • Join us for a journey through time filled with laughter, great music and moments that will enchant us long after the final curtain call.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 23 Feb. 2024
  • And so The Late Show with Stephen Colbert faces the final curtain.
    — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 6 Mar. 2026
  • By the final curtain, that persuasive mission, as even the most scowling purist will admit, has been accomplished.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Stay tuned for Act Two arriving next year, and the final curtain will fall in 2027.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2023
  • That’s the equivalent of the white nightgown in which so many female opera protagonists sing their dying arias just before the final curtain.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The final curtain fell in March 2009 amid the Great Recession.
    — Rio Yamat, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
  • After all the intensity of the smoldering Act 1, the march to the final curtain feels drawn out, predictable.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Broadway’s Funny Girl starring Lea Michele has a few months to prepare for its final curtain call.
    — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Often, Adisa says, those same people end up applauding at intermission and rising for an ovation at the final curtain.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • The regime in the Kremlin, meanwhile, is widely thought to be corrupt, untrustworthy, and a one-man show rapidly approaching its final curtain.
    — Madeleine K. Albright, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
  • This newspaper tried to document at least the final curtain call, but officious ushers would not allow our photographer access into the house.
    — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025
  • The last time the original cast performed together was during their final curtain call in July 2016.
    — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN Money, 8 June 2025
  • Now, the final curtain All good things must come to an end and so, too, will the careers of Fudd and Karaban as Huskies whenever this season ends.
    — Emily Adams, Hartford Courant, 27 Mar. 2026
  • President Biden, like other lame-duck presidents, is fading from the political scene, all but leaving the stage before the final curtain.
    — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The final curtain closed on Galloway’s high school basketball career March 9 in a state semifinal loss to Gwynn Park.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 3 Apr. 2024
  • After the final curtain, the stagehands who made the show’s elaborate spectacle happen night after night, were invited onstage for a resounding round of applause.
    — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2023
  • The final curtain may not have completely descended on tech layoffs—Niantic, Discord, and Salesforce all handed out pink slips this month.
    — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The Oscars 2023 are award season’s final curtain call, a finale that asks actors and collaborators to pull out all of the beauty-centric stops.
    — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 12 Mar. 2023
  • When the JCPenney closed, local residents knew the final curtain call was coming for the beleaguered Westminster Mall.
    — Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Untethered from her baby physically, Adele became less emotionally tethered as well; became Viola/Cesario, the lovable girl/boy who lived on the babyless side of the final curtain.
    — Jonathan Franzen, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

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