curtain call
noun
: an appearance by a performer (as after the final curtain of a play) in response to the applause of the audience
Examples of curtain call in a Sentence
The singer came back for one more curtain call.
Recent Examples on the Web
Then Freeman unloaded on a 2-and-1 fastball at the knees, crushing a grand slam to center field — the sixth of his career — to earn a brief curtain call from a crowd of 37,634.
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Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
Our goal was to try to capture a different activity at each show — staple events like red carpets, curtain calls and parties, plus some only-at-this-particular-opening moments.
—Michael Paulson, New York Times, 19 May 2024
Perhaps the most disappointing thing about the deeply flawed Bohemian Rhapsody film was its suggestion that Mercury’s story essentially ended at Live Aid – and that his fearless curtain call on Innuendo, one of the defining acts of his life, didn’t need to be in the biopic.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 18 May 2024
Two weeks after his high school career’s curtain call, Nice dragged Bel Air’s freshman heavyweight to a tournament in Northeast.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024
After the curtain call at the debut, Lefebvre hugged his performers and exhaled.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024
If it’s meant to be the last Bluey story, then some degree of wish fulfillment, along with a curtain call for the larger ensemble and that emotionally overwhelming hug on the front lawn, feels deserved enough.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2024
The series' fourth season curtain call finds Otis (Asa Butterfield) and Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) facing one of their biggest challenges yet: braving their first day at Cavendish Sixth Form College.
—Brittany Vincent, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2023
Around her, a dozen other Native cast members, most from the Lumbee tribe in southeastern North Carolina, relaxed at picnic tables on the water’s edge ahead of their curtain call.
—Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
Our goal was to try to capture a different activity at each show — staple events like red carpets, curtain calls and parties, plus some only-at-this-particular-opening moments.
—Michael Paulson, New York Times, 19 May 2024
Perhaps the most disappointing thing about the deeply flawed Bohemian Rhapsody film was its suggestion that Mercury’s story essentially ended at Live Aid – and that his fearless curtain call on Innuendo, one of the defining acts of his life, didn’t need to be in the biopic.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 18 May 2024
Two weeks after his high school career’s curtain call, Nice dragged Bel Air’s freshman heavyweight to a tournament in Northeast.
—Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 10 Apr. 2024
After the curtain call at the debut, Lefebvre hugged his performers and exhaled.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024
If it’s meant to be the last Bluey story, then some degree of wish fulfillment, along with a curtain call for the larger ensemble and that emotionally overwhelming hug on the front lawn, feels deserved enough.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2024
The series' fourth season curtain call finds Otis (Asa Butterfield) and Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) facing one of their biggest challenges yet: braving their first day at Cavendish Sixth Form College.
—Brittany Vincent, EW.com, 2 Aug. 2023
Around her, a dozen other Native cast members, most from the Lumbee tribe in southeastern North Carolina, relaxed at picnic tables on the water’s edge ahead of their curtain call.
—Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2023
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“Curtain call.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/curtain%20call. Accessed 28 May. 2024.
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