Sentence examples for illuminated against from inspiring English sources

At the final whistle, the scoreboard illuminated against the dark night sky read: Celtic 2, Barcelona 1.

After sunset, you'll get the show of a lifetime — planets, meteor showers, stars — illuminated against northern Maine's inky black skies.

This year you can opt for a Twilight train to see the retreat illuminated against the Snowdonian dark.

We were on a vacant stretch of road, a few hundred yards from the Saleh Mosque, a towering structure that stood illuminated against the city's darkness.

On television, the faces of Eddie Jones and Ray Allen are illuminated against a dark background as handpicked commercial stars for Michael Jordan's shoe line.

The roll call reaches from Muddy Waters, strumming before a picket fence, tapping his white spats, through Billie Holiday in her heyday, illuminated against a blacked-out stage, and Lena Horne, slumped in an outsized dressing-gown, to Bob Dylan, Tom Jones, Joni Mitchell and Barbra Streisand.

Just as he did, a streak of sunlight broke through the clouds and illuminated him against the wall.

Elsewhere, canvases are displayed alongside furniture of the same period, white-marble busts illuminated dramatically against dark charcoal walls.

Visitors and neighborhood residents have long admired this edifice, particularly after dark, when it is illuminated dramatically against the night sky.

Partially hidden in the brush was a leopard, its yellow fur covered in densely packed rose-shaped markings that illuminated it against the dark green backdrop.

Gripped by the alien beauty of the artificially illuminated succulents against the barren landscape, the filmmaker was spurred into production on his first-ever fully digital project, Dry Lights. .