Sentence examples for a strange backdrop from inspiring English sources

That unfriendly atmosphere made a strange backdrop for the other big announcement of the day: that the Islanders are moving to Brooklyn.

The mystery of the epidemic makes a strange backdrop for the prickly domestic drama; the question of the coming baby's possible contamination is merely a tangential connection.

The industrial horizons make a strange backdrop for the fort, a place of low brick buildings and wide green spaces, whose siege by the British during the War of 1812 inspired Francis Scott Key to write the national anthem.

All this took place under the strangest backdrop.

WHEN the European Union's heads of government gather in Cologne on June 3rd and 4th for their summit to mark the end of the German presidency, they will do so against the backdrop of a strange new balance of economic power.

Against that backdrop it was a strange mood inside the stadium, with little sense that the occasion should be remembered with any real fondness.

He said, "the preponderance of schoolgirls; the absence of a toxic agent; transient, benign symptoms; rapid onset and recovery; plausible rumours; the presence of a strange odour; and anxiety generated from a wartime backdrop" all pointed to mass hysteria.

Against that backdrop, the Four Brothers Islands, which together measure only 18 acres, constitute a strange sanctuary -- a smelly, noisy, barren landscape, seemingly plucked from a Hitchcock film.

That a strange answer.

It's a strange, strange sport".

A strange scent emanated.