Sentence examples for background player from inspiring English sources

During the general election campaign, New Hampshire has been shunted offstage, turned into a background player.

"If you're a background player, that's your job for the day.

He was the same journeyman player he has always been, a "background player" as he proudly puts it.

In those vignettes, Clinical Therapy is a background player, and the focus is on the residents of Kodiak and the town itself.

But Ocean, possibly used to being a background player (after moving from New Orleans to LA, he made a living writing songs for Justin Bieber and Brandy), remained unknown.

Intel clearly wants to become a leader in the wearable tech space, as opposed to a background player, which is what they've become on mobile, with more powerful mobile chipmakers like Qualcomm stealing the spotlight.

On Wednesday, Pete Sampras, Andre Agassi and Marat Safin exited by the hands of various background players.

It may be the song to catapult them to broader acclaim, but it also begins to make them mere background players, a smaller fate than they deserve.

Producers pay additional for background players who show up with their own police outfits, police motorcycles, tuxedos, aerobics clothes, backpacks, golf clubs and tennis rackets.

We salute you, background players ― keep up the good work.

We're all just background players to them.