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• The foreground of this painting is not in keeping.From the entry keeping
• The constituent images are: the background image, the foreground image, and the mask image.2002, B.G. Haskell & al., "Image and Video Coding—Emerging Standards and Beyond", Readings in Multimedia Computing and Networking, p. 93. From the entry djvu
• In the foreground is the deck of the paddlewheeler she is racing.1999, Graham Wilson, Paddlewheelers of Alaska and the Yukon, page 57. From the entry paddlewheeler
• The young man comes to the foreground, deranking the debilitating illness to the background.1996, Lorraine M. Wright, Beliefs: The Heart of Healing in Families and Illness, page 236. From the entry derank
• The cylindrical unit in the foreground contains a section for plates, glasses, and other diningware.1979, Curt Lamb, Homestyles: How-to Projects, Room Designs, and Awareness Activities That Build Feelings into Your Home, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry diningware
• Trees perhaps in the foreground — just budding — spring motif and morning motif.1924, H. G. Wells, The Dream. From the entry backgroundy
• In the foreground of the photograph were the splintered remains of a pink poodle barometer promising fair weather.2017, Sophie Hénaff, The Awkward Squad. From the entry bombsite
• The argument foregrounds a disavowed register of European nationalisms: the moral majority’s ludophilia toward “lazy” and “unproductive” Gypsies.2009, Anikó Imre, Identity Games: Globalization and the Transformation of Media Cultures in the New Europe, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry ludophilia
• In the others, I underpainted the foreground with two light washes and the middle ground with one light wash.2006, Rachel Rubin Wolf, Splash 9: Watercolor Secrets, Cincinnati, Oh.: North Light Books, F+W Publications, Inc., →ISBN, page 111. From the entry underpaint
• What perplexity plagues the chin-rubber in the foreground and what so discourages the man leaning on the lamp post?1949 July 11, LIFE, page 21. From the entry rubber
• Once again interplanetarian radio has come to the foreground.1920 February, Hugo Gernsback, “Interplanetarian Wireless”, in Radio Amateur News, volume 1, number 8. From the entry interplanetarian
• Learning to “see” around these strategies and unhabituate the reader's eye is more about selectively recentering demoted experiences than transparently reproducing foregrounded historiographical “rescue attempts.”2018, Stephen R. Davis, The ANC's War against Apartheid. From the entry unhabituate
• Foreground structures have a stronger effect on the lens potential than background structures, due to non-linear effects in the foreground and downweighting in the background.2016, Curtis McCully, Charles R. Keeton, Kenneth C. Wong, Ann I. Zabludoff, “Quantifying Environmental and Line-of-Sight Effects in Models…. From the entry downweighting
• Each arc has turned out to be the distorted image of a distant galaxy, focused by the gravity of the foreground star-city.2015, Heather Couper, Nigel Henbest, The Secret Life of Space. From the entry star city
• Spots were also used for the foreground, usually the smaller type like a “pup,” which could be repositioned quickly for different setups.2003, Christopher Neame, Rungs on a Ladder: Hammer Films Seen Through a Soft Gauze, page 23. From the entry pup
• The picture showed the group, a gurning, multichinned James looking like a melonhead in the foreground, dressed in formal evening-wear and cummerbunds.1999, Kevin Sampson, Powder: An Everyday Story of Rock 'N' Roll Folk, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 477. From the entry multichinned
• Melville’s subtitle identifies the painting—it shows a lake in the foreground and high, storm-clouded mountains behind—and adds that it was “owned by E.1995, John Hollander, “Varieties of Ecphrastic Agenda”, in The Gazer’s Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art, Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry storm-clouded
• Theatricality is foregrounded in the simple moment of pointing to an absence, as in the mask that points to itself as it advances.1991, Barbara Freedman, Staging the Gaze. From the entry itness
• The whole waited, for didn't there hang behind this troublous foreground the vast vagueness which the English themselves spoke of as "abroad"?1917, Henry James, The Sense of the Past. From the entry troublous
• The shot is a run-of-the-mill Tinderesque snap: abs flex in the foreground; toilet paper hangs in the background; a black-and-white filter gives the shot an aura of noir mystique.2023 October 5, Annie Rauwerda, “On Wikipedia, Anyone Can Be a Model”, in Slate, archived from the original on 12 Oct 2023. From the entry Tinderesque
• And nearby is another illustration, a sinister scene of a pistol-wielding character in the foreground and a trench-coated figure behind him under the title "The House on 92d Street."1999 October 18, Joseph P. Fried, “Thrillers of Cold War in a Hall of Justice”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times…. From the entry trench-coated
• In the foreground one man uses the "head knife” to work over the skin on the beam, while another softens a skin with the currier's mace.1967, Harold B. Gill, Raymond R. Townsend, Thomas K. Ford, The Leatherworker in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg. From the entry mace
• In the refocused narrative of King Arthur's Knights, Malory's larger Arthuriad—from the sword in the stone to the final conflict between Arthur and Mordred—becomes background fodder for Gareth's foreground adventures.2013, Michael N. Salda, Arthurian Animation: A Study of Cartoon Camelots on Film and Television. From the entry background fodder
• In their attempts to foreground the agency of the Native speaker, the disclaimers of white authorial interference traditionally opening 'as-told-tos' barely conceal, in fact often signal, an active editorial presence.2003, Commonwealth, volumes 26-27, page 102. From the entry as-told-to

Meaning of foreground

1. noun The elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane.
2. noun The subject of an image, often depicted at the bottom in a two-dimensional work.
3. noun The application the user is currently interacting with; the application window that appears in front of all others.

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Questions about foreground in a sentence

How do you use foreground in a sentence?

Foreground is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The foreground of this painting is not in keeping.”

What is a short sentence with foreground?

“Once again interplanetarian radio has come to the foreground.”

What does foreground mean?

Foreground means the elements of an image which lie closest to the picture plane.