Example sentences for: backdrop

How can you use “backdrop” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The genre revived in 1995 with Clueless , which was based on Jane Austen's Emma . Cruel Intentions is the zillionth adaptation of the 18 th century French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses . She's All That is loosely based on Pretty Woman , which was loosely based on My Fair Lady , which was based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion . Arriving at multiplexes in the next few months will be O , a version of Othello set against a backdrop of high-school sports, and 10 Things I Hate About You , an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew .

  • Others from Heartfield to Max Ernst built their montages and collages on a classic stagelike ground, with centralized figures, a place for them to stand, and a backdrop behind them.

  • The glittering façade of the Basilica di San Marco forms an exotic backdrop, illuminating Venice’s unique role at the crossroads of Eastern and Western culture.

  • /4,740 ft), as a rugged backdrop.

  • Happily, however, labored metaphors like this are few, and the politics serve more as a backdrop than as a message.


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