Sentence examples for familiar backgrounds from inspiring English sources

"Yes, it's me," Mr. Yue said in a recent interview, and he smiled, though in a gentler, less face-splitting fashion than the man in his paintings — the one who drifts Zelig-like past various familiar backgrounds making a sardonic, or perhaps ironically despairing, comment on the passing scene.

Longhaired and wirehaired miniature dachshunds (chest circumference less than 35 cm) were selected from the Finnish Kennel Club's register based on their regional as well as familiar backgrounds.

It was more about finding someone from a familiar background who speaks the same language.

The warnings have become a familiar background noise, droning in the American imagination.

From the familiar background chatter of people speaking Chinese, a syllable leapt out from nowhere.

So what advantage do subjects demonstrate when they see an object that they've seen before against a familiar background?

"I wanted it to have a familiar background, something they knew; but a mystery would force them to address a different type of world than their own".

And the war in Iraq has gone from a gathering storm to familiar background noise, like the baseball scores or stock market reports.

Despite the familiar background wrangling over the party's direction and disappointment over Mr Howard's failure to make more of an impact, it is he who will lead the party into the next election.

In an inscription across the bottom of one he wrote, "I sat for decades at morning breakfast tea looking out my kitchen window" and "one day recognized my own world, the familiar background, the giant wet brick-walled Atlantis garden".

If that fight does take place, it will be against the familiar background of confusion that Fury has brought to his career – and that has done as much for his ticket‑selling clout as his considerable boxing ability.