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.
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• 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.
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• This leading part is likely to be the curtain raiser of her opera career.
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• 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.
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• A local team are playing as a curtain raiser to the game between England and Italy.
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