Starr heard the prodigious yawn of the awakening Vic, who slept behind a screen in the kitchen, bedrooms being a superfluous luxury in which Johnny Calvert had not indulged himself.
And you giving him the baby-eyed stare like he was a screen idol and you was an extra that was strong for him.
In the hall her mesh bag caught in the latch of the screen door and dropped to the floor.
She's no screen actress," answered the gloomy Cecile.
Making big eyes at a camera is the limit of art achieved by many of our feminine screen stars.
She drew the ruffles of the negligee about her throat and removed the sliding screen the better to see into the outer world.
But can it be we have found in Gusty Durgin a screen artist in embryo?
Long before this, the hunter had slipped out of his saddle, and taken the precaution to screen both himself and his animal from the chance of being seen by the retreating rider--who promise soon to pass the spot.
As on the day before, she stood by the parapet scanning the road on the opposite side of the river; as before, she saw the horseman with the slung arm ride past; as before, she crouched to screen herself from observation.
The thin, feathery frondage of the mezquit will not screen her from an eye passing near.
If we cannot we must shelter beneath the first wind-screen of rock we can find.
She lay back in her arm-chair, her feet high upon the side of the grate, and in front of her, presumably to screen her eyes, she held a newspaper from which she picked up a sentence or two now and again.
But the whole thickness of some learned counsel's treatise upon Torts did not screen him satisfactorily.
I saw this as plain as a pikestaff, as, with one of her kindest looks, she insisted on my putting on a better happing to screen me from the cold, and on my taking something comfortable inwardly towards the dispelling of bad consequences.
For some, the lofty banquet-hall, splendid with reflected lights and the flash of crystal and silver and the triumphal strains of a full band hidden by a screen of palms and tree-ferns.
Clouds partially obscured the sun and what with the screen of foliage and the prevailing gloom of the cave we could not always distinguish the nests.
A gay Japanese screen protected a cosy corner by the fire, fitted up with a lounge, an armchair, two little tables, and a standard lamp.
An inviting lounge shaded by a screen was placed by the red glow of the fire, the lights were carefully shaded so as not to shine too fully on the artificial beauties of the lady's face.
He walked in, and looked round the screen by the fire, starting back for a moment with a sick horror of what he saw.
He could therefore expect nothing but hostility from him, and prudence counselled him to screen himself by a timely flight from its actual outbreak.
That she told the truth appeared to be pretty clear to the magistrates, and to punish her for having so far used deceit to screen her son, might have been neither just nor legal.
Miss Diana had arrived unwillingly at the conclusion that Jim Sanders had set the rick on fire by accident; and in his fright had accused Rupert, to screen himself.
No one but the runaway, James Sanders, who most probably proffered the charge to screen himself.
A screen of blue silk eighteen or twenty feet long and six feet high, fastened to two wooden standards, is held by eunuchs to screen her while she enters the cart.
As the white door screen was raised I saw two rows of white-robed figures kneeling on the floor, and as I entered they all bent forward and touched their head to the ground, giving forth as they did it a low, wailing chant.
When this screen was removed I saw some singular articles of furniture behind it.
A steep embankment would instantly screen anyone who sprang out from the observation of the navvies.
My only motive was to screen those who were dear to me from any possible connection with scandal or disgrace.
That kind bonne placed a screen between me and the lamp; I saw her rise to do this, but do not remember seeing her resume her place: in the interval between the two acts, I "fell on sleep.
You are well habituated to be passed by as a shadow in Life's sunshine: it its a new thing to see one testily lifting his hand to screen his eyes, because you tease him with an obtrusive ray.
The screen is frequently the surface of a cathode-ray tube containing phosphors excited by the electron beam, but other methods for causing an image to appear on the screen are also used, as in flat-panel displays.
Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage.
A screenof boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
Screen door, a door of which half or more is composed of a screen.
A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp.
An instrument similar to, or the same as, the, the phenakistoscope, by means of which pictures projected upon a screen are made to exhibit the natural movements of animals, and the like.
A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind.
A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church.
And now his head was resting against the wind screen just in front of the cockpit.
Dastral, as they whirled through a screen of bursting shrapnel.
At the end of the second passage, the little party issued forth upon a long cloister forming one side of a quadrangle, and separated from the central court by an open screen of elaborately carved stone work.
Delivered of this ironic thrust, Tessie would walk toward the screen door with a little flaunting sway of the hips.
He could see through a leafyscreen the people in the main road wending their way to meeting.
The aperture disclosed, instead of burning sky, a thick screen of horse-chestnut boughs.
At the edge he gave one shuddering look below, then hastily and with caution drew back, peering fixedly through the screen of leaf and branch.
Screen the wash water if it is left standing over night.
Screen all windows of houses, barns or out-buildings.
Screen rain barrels and cisterns so mosquitoes cannot get to the water and lay eggs.
One day, while he was still thinking about her, some one drew aside thescreen and walked in.
He was nearly blind with straining his eyes, and the sun was already past noontide before the young lady arrived; but when she saw from her carriage a gentleman standing there, she drew aside the screen and had a good stare at him.
And then he goes back behind the screen and changes into the next garment she needs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "screen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
