How to Use the Iron Curtain in a Sentence

the Iron Curtain

noun

• Tetris breached the digital walls of the Iron Curtain as the Soviet Union was on the brink of collapse.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2023
• When there was an enemy to be faced down across the Iron Curtain that organized moral life.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• With the lifting of the Iron Curtain, many industries in western Europe moved east as workers from eastern Europe moved west in search of better jobs.
  — Peter Trubowitz, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2023
• Option two, no less fraught with risk: send nine white guys, including four horn players and a singer with a penchant for leather pants, to perform Grammy-winning rock and roll behind the Iron Curtain.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023
• The technology appeared to present a solution to the predominant problem of the time (while a truly Orwellian state lurked behind the Iron Curtain).
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• But another key factor was the fall of the Iron Curtain, when modeling scouts started looking for talent in the former Soviet Union.
  — Eliza Brooke, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• His speech was followed by a recorded video in which his father likened his situation in Canada to growing up behind the Iron Curtain in communist Poland.
  — Jon Brown, Fox News, 16 July 2023
• With the fall of the Iron Curtain, the group’s discussion topics pivoted away from nuclear issues to more economic ones, and after 9/11, the focus shifted to terror.
  — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
• As with that world war and the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, the Ukraine conflict looks certain to leave Europe’s political alignment unrecognizably different.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Oct. 2023
• In the 30 years since the Iron Curtain came crashing down, trillions of dollars that had been dedicated to Cold War armies and weapons systems were gradually diverted to health care, housing and schools.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 3 May 2023
• On offer to all comers is a no-charge, interactive installation, celebrating U2’s time in Berlin before the fall of the Iron Curtain.
  — Brad Auerbach, Spin, 6 Oct. 2023
• Klima emigrated from communist Czechoslovakia in 1985, four years before the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 May 2023
• Bipolarity was not marked by stable competition along the Iron Curtain but by bloody superpower interventions in the peripheries of the globe.
  — Matias Spektor, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• For its part, the U.S. government promoted art that burnished its image as a free and prosperous country, hoping to motivate people behind the Iron Curtain to reject communism.
  — Suzanne Nossel, Foreign Affairs, 29 Feb. 2024
• The division between the prosperity of the west and the economic failures and political repression behind the Iron Curtain soon become apparent to those leaving that Iron Curtain behind.
  — Kerry J. Byrne Fox News, Fox News, 9 Nov. 2023
• After Koudelka himself slipped through the Iron Curtain, his real name became internationally famous.
  — Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2024
• In general, everyday life behind the Iron Curtain followed a familiar pattern that largely removed individual choice.
  — Alice Popovici, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Jul 2024