Sentence examples for backgrounds long from inspiring English sources

The best things in "Taps" are the backgrounds: long summer evenings with children playing out late, a winter ice storm with automobiles sliding and colliding like dodge-'em cars at a carnival.

The real creators of movies like these, as much as the directors, screenwriters, and stars, are the hundreds of designers, programmers, animators, technicians, and the like, whose names keep rolling by in small letters against black backgrounds long after the patrons have left the theatre.

Much as jailbreakers were customizing their iPhone's homescreen backgrounds long before such things were Apple-endorsed, they're now able to skin the Notifications Center drop down as they please.

They come from varied backgrounds: long-established Taiwanese immigrants, more recent transplants from the mainland, South Koreans, Vietnamese refugees, Filipinos, South Asians and, increasingly, their children and grandchildren.

By way of background, long before MOOCs happened, Berkeley was already offering successful online courses, starting in 1992 with an online precalculus course for credit.

Some background: Long before the 2008 financial crisis plunged America and Europe into a deep and prolonged economic slump, Japan held a dress rehearsal in the economics of stagnation.

"Some of the bookies slashed the odds last week for Phil to be sacked and I'm sure there will have been conversations and movements going on in the background long before today.

The more likely scenario, however, is that this scandal continues to hover in the background long after the investigation is over, just as Clinton's complex email affair did.

Some background: Long-term fiscal projections for the United States paint a grim picture.

Background: Long-term anti-cytomegalovirus (CMV) treatments in immunocompromised patients are hampered by resistance to antiviral drugs.

In the background long-stemmed trees like giant glowing lollipops rise on a green hill against a salmon sky.