Sentence examples for dot against from inspiring English sources

The first features a red dot against a black background.

The planet, 58 arcsec in diameter, is visible as a sizeable black dot against the Sun's N hemisphere until it leaves the disc between 05 37 and 05:55 as seen from Britain.

An optical illusion makes Venus (lower dot) appear larger than Jupiter (upper dot) against the night sky.

And Jupiter, which will be nothing more than a bright, white dot against the twilight background, will lurk nearby, appearing just 3 degrees lower.

Be sure to check back in with Venus in a few months; on June 5, the planet will cross the face of the sun from Earth's perspective, appearing as a tiny black dot against the face of our star.

In the photograph, Earth's apparent size is less than a pixel; the planet appears as a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight scattered by the camera's optics.

Aircraft first appear as tiny dots against blue sky, clouds or stars.

Mr. Hirst claimed that the design was based on his paintings of grids of colored dots against white backgrounds.

On a transparent surface, one laser illuminates tiny particles or micro-scratches, while the second beam sees the particles as bright dots against a dark background.

Each chemotherapy treatment he appears, in a flurry of nurses and research assistants, and perches on the bed to answer questions, leaving the small medical fry dotted against the walls, clipboards poised, like captured butterflies.

I have seen it from blazing summer, with larks mere dots against a cornflower-blue Somme sky, to the Ypres salient in the bleakest of midwinter, rain kicking mud against headstones and the wind keening through the Menin Gate like the wail of a hungry ghost.