How to Use final curtain in a Sentence

final curtain

noun
  • The final curtain fell in March 2009 amid the Great Recession.
    Rio Yamat, Quartz, 2 Apr. 2024
  • Stay tuned for Act Two arriving next year, and the final curtain will fall in 2027.
    Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 2 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Less than two weeks after the news broke that the robot musicians would be making their final curtain call, Chuck E. Cheese backtracked.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 30 May 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
  • 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
  • Even though there were two-month breaks between legs of the two-year tour, fans always had a future show to look forward to until Dec. 8 when the final curtain fell in Vancouver, Canada.
    Bryan West, USA TODAY, 13 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • There is no final curtain here, not really.
    Michelle Hyun Kim, Pitchfork, 10 Jan. 2026
  • For now, visitors are making memories — just in case this truly is the final curtain call.
    Ross Dimattei, CBS News, 24 Dec. 2025
  • And for his final curtain call?
    Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 21 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • There is no final curtain here, not really.
    Morgan Enos, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019

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