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Example sentences for: backdrop

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The tilled soil, a startling ochre color, makes a colorful backdrop for orange and lemon groves.
/4,740 ft), as a rugged backdrop.
"His most substantial role in years" (Dennis Lim, the Village Voice ). Critics are relieved that the film uses politics only as a backdrop for a romance between Day-Lewis and a married woman (played by Emily Watson).
The Middle East Times of Egypt has a lead editorial railing against the portrayal of Arab-Americans in the American movie The Siege . "With the exception of Haddad and a miserable-looking courier who gets caught as he tries to bring in cash for the terrorists, the Arabs here are either terrorists or non-persons who provide a poor-looking backdrop," it said.
A fire in 1886 and property-developers left few traces of the 19th-century town, but bold contemporary architecture downtown and out at the Simon Fraser and University of British Columbia campuses blends beautifully with the mountain and ocean backdrop.