Example sentences for: backdrop

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

  • Contrasting with the resplendent costumes, the set has an austere simplicity: a backdrop (usually a permanent wall) of a large pine tree and some bamboo, with no curtain.

  • Against this backdrop of stars, any mortal would quake.

  • Her personal authenticity was the backdrop against which these men were able to turn their experiences into words with an anguished and heartbreaking transparency.

  • The former paper says that in Japan, reported cases of child abuse are rising against a backdrop of record unemployment and increasing divorce and remarriage rates.

  • 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.


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