Sentence examples for canvas backdrop from inspiring English sources

"My dad built me a mound in the backyard with a canvas backdrop over our horseshoe pits, and I would go back there and just throw and throw and throw until I developed it, and it became my curveball.

Onward rushed a steady torrent of women and men of all shapes and sizes, rushing around couches, draping themselves all over him and nearly pinning him against a white canvas backdrop, which began to wobble.

Against a canvas backdrop showing an English country scene, and on a floor covered with turf, Billings and his 36 guests sat astride their mounts, who had been taken up to the fourth-floor ballroom by freight elevator.

The history is lowered into place like a painted canvas backdrop, and the principal characters never really take on lives of their own, no matter how often the author has them stroke their beards, fiddle with their watch fobs and pound their fists on the table.

There is a stage in front of the canvas backdrop with a black girl on it.

Thompson noted that despite the battle being within living memory the "exact reproduction" used a painted canvas backdrop and focused on an entirely fictional plot.

The skies (usually canvas backdrops) are dappled, and they darken just a bit around the upper edges in a rough arc as in many early 19th-century photographs.

Arthus-Bertrand's studies of prize-winning domestic livestock -- photographed against simple canvas backdrops at agricultural shows in England, France, Italy and Argentina and lighted like Caravaggios -- turn out to be a curiously appealing blend of art and kitsch.

I hope I provide them with a good canvas and backdrop for their clothes.

The neighborhood's streets and buildings are the book's canvas, the backdrop to smart observations ("when you arrest someone, it's like a blind date").

His wife, Michelle Stuhl, is a painter who often uses wood, not canvas, as a backdrop.