Sentence examples for as backdrop to from inspiring English sources
Fedda has interpreted white, in this case, not as flour but noise: the susurrus of scraping and clanking that acts as backdrop to the manufacture of loaves.
The keystone appears as backdrop to the "s" and "t" in the Keystone logo, and a keystone is placed on the exterior of every building the company buys.
Inside, the space is long and narrow, with old wooden floors, high ceilings and restful green walls serving as backdrop to local art that is for sale.
Strikingly, the novel takes the form of an extended response to a police interrogation.Using the dry, flint-faced environment of bureaucracy as backdrop to highly emotional events is a popular device in in modern German fiction.
She has four streetfront windows with constantly rotating displays: colorful Victorian corsets and feathered hats for Gasparilla, Tampa's annual pirate festival parade; a 1920s safari scene with palm fronds hung across the wall as backdrop to a mannequin wedding couple.
Images of the performers cavorting in the wetlands serve as backdrop to a dance set to the Cuban music of Tiempo Libre and the indie folk of Andrew Bird.
Situated in a distant corner of the gardens, they were built mainly as backdrops to the hydraulic fountains that delighted the Qianlong emperor.
Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire & Ickworth House, Suffolk This August the National Trust is using two of its properties as backdrops to giant outdoor screens.
Art heists, first dates, encounters with the undead; museums have served as backdrops to these and other movie scenes over the last century.
Plenty of light filters through the plate glass windows, tables are spaced decently apart, and walls in peach and salmon serve as backdrops to a changing array of paintings (a series of heritage breed roosters by Susan Prentice was recently featured).
Schooled in painting and design, he chose to define himself as a photographer, scraping paint off his early canvases so they could serve a more useful life as backdrops to his pictures.
