Example sentences for: foreground

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

  • Bell's fleeting discussion of the "sixties" cultural events--so in the foreground of American life circa 1973--is somewhat startling with hindsight.

  • The ad closes with the girl in the foreground, smiling at the camera, because she is, of course, the perfect future British Airways flight attendant.

  • But other Z-film critics argue the film is almost entirely special effects: that the grassy background one sees is surely a repeated matte shot, because nobody in it moves; that the head shot sequence features an optical zoom to eliminate foreground figures and make it easier to manipulate; that the head shot itself is an optically collapsed version of two more widely separated hits.

  • A lively guitar and plastic colors animate this Grand Tour, which begins with an overhead shot of the globe, North America in the foreground.

  • In England we had a always used this phrase to mean `to be in the foreground, to play a prominent part.


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