Example sentences for: backdrop

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

  • The top non-local story at the Washington Post uses the down Dow as backdrop for Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin's call for stronger regulation of global finance.

  • All this happens nightly (except Sunday) against the backdrop of the magnificently floodlit castle in an arena erected in the Esplanade.

  • 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.

  • The urban backdrop: Tak Fujimoto's sublimely subtle, atmospheric cinematography made Philadelphia look ancient, decadent, well-worn; rarely does an American film setting feel so saturated with the past and teeming with the footprints left by earlier generations.

  • It's worth remembering that Kundera's sexual parables unfold against a backdrop of totalitarian repression, whereas our own grapple with a more confusing legacy: the counterculture of the '60s and '70s.


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