How to Use iron curtain in a Sentence

iron curtain

noun
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  • Joanna pulled open the iron curtain with an album called Red Wave.
    — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 11 July 2018
  • Most bands who reach that level of success don’t do that or they get surrounded by an iron curtain where nobody can speak to them.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Aug. 2022
  • The new court decision was the next step toward creating a digital iron curtain between Russia and the rest of the world.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Mar. 2022
  • It’s what now seems like the building of an iron curtain between West and East, around questions of fundamental principles.
    — Degen Pener, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2022
  • Sweeping sanctions imposed by the West have brought down a new iron curtain on the Russian economy, freezing tens of billions of dollars of many of the tycoons’ assets along the way.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Where an iron curtain once split Europe, a rainbow curtain now divides the continent.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
  • But the goal shared by a range of actors trying to pierce the digital iron curtain is to chip away, cumulatively, at Russian public support for the war and the morale of Russian soldiers.
    — Sean Lyngaas, Kylie Atwood and Brian Fung, CNN, 18 Mar. 2022
  • The potential negative consequences for Jews in Russia, where an iron curtain appears to be descending once again, is great.
    — Lahav Harkov, National Review, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The result is Russians now live behind a digital iron curtain, albeit one with significant gaps.
    — Sam Schechner, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2022
  • Yet, Kashmir itself remains eerily calm, mostly thanks to the iron curtain that has descended around and inside it since the state’s autonomy was abruptly withdrawn on Aug. 5 by India.
    — Riyaz Wani, Quartz India, 9 Jan. 2020
  • No matter what happens in the realm of trade, a digital iron curtain – which separates the world into two distinct technological spheres of influence – will continue to be drawn.
    — Tim Culpan, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
  • Trade has always been the iron curtain that divided Mr. Trump and establishment Republicans.
    — Peter Baker, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2018
  • China’s edge threatens to create a digital iron curtain that could soon force nations to choose between Chinese and American technology.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • In today’s interdependent world the kind of separation that iron curtain implies won’t be possible.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Mar. 2022
  • But already Russia’s actions—and subsequent global reactions—suggest a new iron curtain could destructively fall across a broad range of once promising collaborations.
    — Leonard David, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2022
  • As Ukraine’s government pressures the platforms to block Russian state-media altogether, concerns have been raised that if the platforms do that, Russia will retaliate—cutting off ordinary Russians behind a digital iron curtain.
    — Morgan Meaker, Wired, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Instead of giving up on their Russian audiences, though, international news organizations are trying to exploit gaps within this new digital iron curtain to reach the Russian people.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Or will an iron curtain of incompatibility separate them?
    — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 23 Dec. 2019
  • Trump’s admirers in Washington, the move against Chinese tech companies is an act of reciprocity, an acknowledgment that China was the first to splinter the Internet into separate domains divided by a digital iron curtain.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2020

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