Sentence examples for figure against from inspiring English sources
He hangs perfectly still, becoming a tiny figure against the sky.
"I want it to be about forms and shapes that figure against a landscape".
"You go!" he called to Gomperts, who was suddenly no more than a stick figure against a rippling ocean.
Jennings sees her as a figure against a battlefield, of the Crimean war, but also of gender and race.
Those three contests pitted a dominant establishment figure against a scrappy insurgent who challenged the front-runner from the left.
It was inevitable that Murray would be a central figure against the club where he previously spent four seasons.
The legal action had pitted two strikingly similar public figures against each other.
To repeat such figures against Australia would be respectable but hardly earth-shattering.
"They see history like a peepshow, with two-dimensional figures against a distant background".
A rougher type portraying human and animal figures against an ornamental background also existed.
Instead, this bleak, funereal procession of dark figures against a blackened landscape wound slowly up the path.
