How To Use curtain raiser In A Sentence
- China seems to feel unusually bold before the Summer Olympics, seen here as a curtain raiser for the nation's ascent to pre-eminence in the world.
- Only on Thursday, Germany coach Jurgen Klinsmann ruled his captain out of the World Cup curtain raiser - with the key midfielder struggling with a calf complaint.
- This leading part is likely to be the curtain raiser of her opera career.
- Everywhere he stepped either side of a gentle curtain raiser, a posse of well-wishers shadowed him, grabbing an autograph here, a picture there and a precious chat wherever possible.
- A local team are playing as a curtain raiser to the game between England and Italy.