How to use backdrop in a sentence

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• Henry Earls uses the beaux-arts backdrop of the New York Public Library for his TikTok thirst traps.2024 January 26, Alaina Demopoulos, “Books and looks: gen Z is ‘rediscovering’ the public library”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, image caption. From the entry thirst trap
• All these issues stand as a backdrop to the ongoing battle between CEX and DEX environments.2024 April 10, Alex Wearn, “CEXs vs. DEXs: The Future Battle Lines”, in CoinDesk. From the entry CEX
• And in Paris, Wick has a meeting with the Marquis, the Eiffel Tower providing a picturesque backdrop.2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC. From the entry climactic
• Against this backdrop, we reviewed the Kiplinger ETF 20, the list of our favorite exchange-traded funds.2020, Nellie S. Huang, "Find the Best ETFs For Your Goals" in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, 74(9), p. 18. From the entry ETF
• Stacks upon stacks of classics used the Napoleonic War as a backdrop.2016 October 1, Colby Marshall, Flash Point, Severn House Publishers Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry briquet
• Hitch had once again taken enormous strides with some of his backdrops.2013, Tony Lee Moral, Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie, page 258. From the entry tomorrowish
• In summer, you're welcomed into a flower-decked garden set against a backdrop of ancient vineyards.2011, Dardis McNamee, Frommer's Austria. From the entry wurst
• Similarly, in radio drama there is an audio backdrop, usually called ‘atmos’ (short for atmosphere).2011, Richard J. Hand, Mary Traynor, The Radio Drama Handbook: Audio Drama in Context and Practice, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page…. From the entry atmos
• Against the glacial backdrop he looked like a lost minstrel who'd taken a wrong turn at Albuquerque.2008, Paul Beatty, Slumberland, page 158. From the entry take a wrong turn at Albuquerque
• All this is set to a driving backdrop of hard, slightly surfy, surprisingly powerful strumming.1993 September 3, Chris Dickinson, “Singers to watch”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry surfy
• A mimed sequence might enliven Johnny's visit to the great thereafter; or the battle royal might be painted on a backdrop.2022, Jody Enders, Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries, →ISBN, page 243. From the entry thereafter
• “I love this idea,” Ponomarev said, pointing to the white-blue-white flag that forms the channel’s live studio backdrop.2022 June 7, Luke Harding, “Russian-language Ukrainian TV channel aims to topple Putin”, in The Guardian, page 20. From the entry white-blue-white flag
• It is the picture of a farmer and his son standing against the backdrop of an empty wooden corncrib.2007 July 10, Verlyn Klinkenborg, “John Szarkowski”, in New York Times. From the entry corncrib
• Her speculation was set against a backdrop of rearview creepshots, with a few barely there scribbles added to blot out actual facial features.2018 July 14, Natasha Lomas, “Reminder: Other people’s lives are not fodder for your feeds”, in TechCrunch. From the entry creepshot
• Street photographers with long-legged flamingoesque equipment liked to use it as a free backdrop for the vacant smiles of their human subjects.2016, Paul Sullivan, Marcel Krueger, Berlin: A Literary Guide for Travellers, London: I.B.Tauris & Co. Ltd, →ISBN, unnumbered page. From the entry flamingoesque
• Sven, for the most part, stayed in the backdrop hovering nervously near the parlor window, where he now kept vigil for newly arriving guests .2013, John E. Rawson, Blind Vigil, page 102. From the entry keep vigil
• Ram’s descent plays out against a backdrop of New York as Palookaville, full of free-floating hostility and natives who spout movie-bred clichés.2012 September 7, Rachel Saltz, “Living in a Material World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Palookaville
• He used no pyro or video backdrop, and the audience stood close enough to its hero that it could hold nonconversations with him.2007 June 15, Ben Ratliff, “McCartney, Almost Within Touching Distance”, in New York Times. From the entry nonconversation
• Against the backdrop of muted stripes of color, Julieanne picked at her eyes’ crusties, and then combed her hair with the hand.1999, Vinnie Hansen, Murder, Honey, Xlibris Corporation,, →ISBN, page 155. From the entry crusty
• But a bodega owner in the area said that crime seemed to be rising, and that at night, the neighborhood became a backdrop for drug use and occasional sideshows.2023 April 7, Kate Conger, Shawn Hubler, “Stabbing of Cash App Creator Raises Alarm, and Claims of ‘Lawless’ San Francisco”, in The New…. From the entry sideshow
• Later that summer, back in London, poker was also the backdrop for Alvarez's own sixtieth birthday, for which his beloved wife Anne had organised a surprise party.2021, Anthony Holden, Based on a True Story. From the entry conspiracy
• Despite the drab backdrop of his performances—a dimly lit bathroom with a popcorn ceiling—his grooves were both riveting and infectious, earning him plaudits from several TikTok stalwarts.2021 May 7, Barrett Swanson, “The Anxiety of Influencers”, in Harper's Magazine. From the entry popcorn ceiling
• Unrecorded and unstudied, Sart Kalmak oral history, literature, folklore and language were gradually forgotten against the backdrop of the processes of extensive Sovietization and Kyrgysization (sic).2021 February 25, Baasanjav Terbish, “The Sart Kalmaks in Kyrgyzstan: people in transition”, in Central Asian Survey. From the entry Kyrgyzization
• Everything on the grid – all the backdrops and curtains, anything that has to move up and down from the fly-tower – has to be counterweighted.2018, Maggie Harcourt, Theatrical. From the entry grid
• The simplest and cheapest answer is to introduce a scenic backing of some kind, a backdrop, a drape, some flats to restrict the shot and obscure whatever is outside.2013, Gerald Millerson, TV Scenic Design, page 134. From the entry backing
• And if there is a serious connection between the fragmented Close close-up portraits that are among the backdrops and the sometimes Chopin-like, thinly pretty ripplings of Mr.2007 October 29, Alastair Macaulay, “An Ephemeral Portrait of an Artist in a Hall of Mirrors”, in New York Times. From the entry rippling
• Dressed in traditional clothing, she welcomes us in her ancestral ayʔaǰuθɛm language against a backdrop of steep, mist-laden, dark green hills that drop straight into the waters of Desolation Sound.2021 October 29, “An experience shared”, in Nanaimo Bulletin. From the entry ayʔaǰuθɛm
• A recent campaign by Stockholm police to crack down on illegal immigrants by racial profiling at the city's subway turnstiles has formed the backdrop to a reignited debate about racism.2013 April 2, Sven Hultberg Carlsson, “Does Sweden have a racial profiling problem?”, in Christian Science Monitor, retrieved 10 Sep 2013. From the entry racial profiling
• Given this backdrop and these fears, “tail risk” hedging, or protecting investment portfolios against extreme negative moves in the market, has been a frequent topic of conversation among market participants.2012 April 20, Alan Gerstein, “The Challenges in Hedging Tail Risk”, in The New York Times. From the entry tail risk
• He recalled that the big hill which served as their backdrop—the one that was always there despite the changing dunes—was known as Mazhatage, which was the Uygur word for “tomb.”2005, Mary Kay Zuravleff, The Bowl is Already Broken (Fiction), Bloomsbury Publishing, published 2006, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 285. From the entry Uygur

Meaning of backdrop

1. noun A decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.
2. noun An image that serves as a visual background.
3. noun The setting or background of an acted performance.

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Questions about backdrop in a sentence

How do you use backdrop in a sentence?

Backdrop is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Against a backdrop of falling interest rates, the new savings account is looking less appealing.”

What is a short sentence with backdrop?

“a brilliant sunset backdropping the famous skyline”

What does backdrop mean?

Backdrop means a decorated cloth hung at the back of a stage.