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curtain call

NOUN
  1. an appearance by actors or performers at the end of the concert or play in order to acknowledge the applause of the audience

How To Use curtain call In A Sentence

  • There was to be one final curtain call. Times, Sunday Times
  • There were six curtain calls and Rose Lipman came on stage to be presented with a bouquet.
  • Recent "comeback attempts" by Cruise and Spears -- two publicity super shammies -- and Michael Jackson's recently announced "curtain call" concerts in London are separated from Estefan story by a miles-wide crevasse of entitlement. Jason Notte: Britney, Tom, Michael Jackson and the Case Against Second Acts for Famous People
  • Cricket usually grants a batsman his curtain call at the end of his innings. Times, Sunday Times
  • Even if you get no applause, you should accept a curtain call gracefully and appreciate your own efforts.
  • The best part of the ribbing -- true to its roots in divaliciousness -- was the curtain call, wherein the knobby-kneed bull-erina, Ida Nevasayneva (Paul Ghiselin), blew effusive kisses, toppled over in his curtsies and fumbled his way back through the curtain, all with unshakable aplomb. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo: Divas infuse humor, character in dances
  • The second act, unlike the first, is bulletproof from entr'acte to curtain calls. 'Little Mermaid'
  • That would seem to wrap it up, with nothing left but a final curtain call.
  • The second act, unlike the first, is bulletproof from entr'acte to curtain calls. 'Little Mermaid'
  • Even if you get no applause, you should accept a curtain call gracefully and appreciate your own efforts.
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