Sentence examples for as background figures from inspiring English sources

At the time, I was reading lots of Balzac, and in his novels you see the same thing: characters who are important in one story but who appear as background figures in another.

We meet the families of the three male principals, but only one wife and one child emerge as more than background figures.

To begin with, Nora stuck to her pre-ordained role as a background figure.

Gold was used in large expanses as background for figures that were embroidered in coloured silks.

This will prevent the users from being distracted by inappropriate movements, while on the other hand this will be perceived as much more natural than a completely static frame as background (see Figure 2).

"Batfleck" was in the movie more than we expected, but always as a shadowy background figure until the mid-credits scene (more on that later).

F Ga=0,F As=0: this is an annealing regime under completely minimized As background flux (Figure 5c).

When we used a small value for T1, most pixels were classified as background regions (Figure 3c).

The control group without any carbon source generated 3.9 μmol of methane after 1,323 days of incubation as background level (Figure 1).

We treated branch B as the foreground branch and all other branches in the phylogeny as background branches (Figure 2A).

"But not as a tray-toting, background figure.