How to Use iron curtain in a Sentence

iron curtain

noun
  • That unit should always be an iron curtain of talent and toughness.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 17 Sep. 2022
  • Joanna pulled open the iron curtain with an album called Red Wave.
    — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2018
  • Most bands who reach that level of success don’t do that or they get surrounded by an iron curtain where nobody can speak to them.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The medical ass and the erotic ass never met by day or by night; the two cultures were separated by an iron curtain or fire wall.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Where an iron curtain once split Europe, a rainbow curtain now divides the continent.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
  • The new court decision was the next step toward creating a digital iron curtain between Russia and the rest of the world.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Until then, drills buzz into concrete, construction lifts beep loudly, workers iron curtains and more art comes out of storage waiting for a moment in the sun.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
  • The result is Russians now live behind a digital iron curtain, albeit one with significant gaps.
    — Sam Schechner, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
  • In today’s interdependent world the kind of separation that iron curtain implies won’t be possible.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2022
  • And so arguably these are the people that have the most to lose by the expansion of those rights, and the most to gain in a sense by erecting frontiers, erecting a kind of new iron curtain around Europe.
    — Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2015
  • The potential negative consequences for Jews in Russia, where an iron curtain appears to be descending once again, is great.
    — Lahav Harkov, National Review, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Neither excuse is a legitimate justification for this iron curtain of darkness.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 June 2026
  • Under this logic, the new iron curtain is being built not by Putin but by the West, which seeks to lock Russians inside their own borders through its sanctions and visa bans.
    — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Sweeping sanctions imposed by the West have brought down a new iron curtain on the Russian economy, freezing tens of billions of dollars of many of the tycoons’ assets along the way.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • No matter what happens in the realm of trade, a digital iron curtain – which separates the world into two distinct technological spheres of influence – will continue to be drawn.
    — Tim Culpan, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
  • That may then allow the government to ban all private internet communications, creating a digital iron curtain.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 27 June 2025
  • Many Russians who managed to escape Putin’s iron curtain are now facing the same terrifying fate, only this time the destination isn’t an accident.
    — Air Mail, 25 Oct. 2025
  • China’s edge threatens to create a digital iron curtain that could soon force nations to choose between Chinese and American technology.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • But the goal shared by a range of actors trying to pierce the digital iron curtain is to chip away, cumulatively, at Russian public support for the war and the morale of Russian soldiers.
    — Sean Lyngaas, Kylie Atwood and Brian Fung, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
  • But already Russia’s actions—and subsequent global reactions—suggest a new iron curtain could destructively fall across a broad range of once promising collaborations.
    — Leonard David, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2022
  • If the United States stopped aiding and protecting fledgling democracies, however, some could disappear behind Beijing’s digital iron curtain.
    — Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Instead of giving up on their Russian audiences, though, international news organizations are trying to exploit gaps within this new digital iron curtain to reach the Russian people.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2022
  • As Ukraine’s government pressures the platforms to block Russian state-media altogether, concerns have been raised that if the platforms do that, Russia will retaliate—cutting off ordinary Russians behind a digital iron curtain.
    — Morgan Meaker, Wired, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Trump’s admirers in Washington, the move against Chinese tech companies is an act of reciprocity, an acknowledgment that China was the first to splinter the Internet into separate domains divided by a digital iron curtain.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2020

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