Sentence examples for as a backing for from inspiring English sources

Pure gold has virtually no industrial uses other than as a backing for currency.

But in the Seventies his music was the hottest thing among avant-garde choreographers: with vivid memories of his mysteriously Oriental sound-world as a backing for dance, I was curious to see how it would hold up, 30 years on.

Although glass can be made in countless ways to have any number of specific uses — to conduct light as fibers, say, or serve as a backing for electronic circuitry, as in a laptop screen — structural projects almost exclusively use soda-lime glass, made, as it has always been, largely from sodium carbonate, limestone and silica.

Nilsen had previously performed there as a backing singer for Jens Carelius.

McBride, a musician since childhood, had worked as a backing musician for his father, Dale McBride, and later for Delbert McClinton and Rosie Flores.

Martina Majerle, who represented and provided backing vocals numerous times for Croatia, Montenegro and Slovenia, returned as a backing vocalist for Montenegro.

Her "decisiveness and directness" she attributes to an apprenticeship she served as a backing singer for Will Oldham.

Born LaDonna Adrian Gaines, Summer broke into the music business in her early 20s as a backing singer for Three Dog Night.

It felt really amazing to be back there with my band after performing there as a backing singer for my best mate Jack [Peñate] about three years ago.

Hendrix engineered his discharge in time to avoid being mobilised to Vietnam and worked hard as a backing guitarist for Little Richard, Curtis Knight, the Isley Brothers and others.

Sunday night at 9 at the Knitting Factory with the Anomoanon, which began life as a backing band for Will Oldham and features his brother Ned Oldham.