1.   Heat loss through any window can be substantially reduced by using curtains which are lined.

2.   A taped-up curtain was used as the ball.

3.   In Great Britain, thick weighted curtains are used to absorb bomb blasts.

4.   Most Brazilians are used to sliding doors on their tubs and fail to use the curtains.

5.   When homemakers used curtain stretchers, wash boards and wringer washers and boiled dirty clothes in copper pots.