Sentence examples for served as a background from inspiring English sources

The rich texture thus created served as a background for other carved geometric designs, such as squares or diamonds, as well as for painted elements.

At one point, a gust ripped apart the giant sheet of paper that served as a background, so that it flapped around thunderously, as assistants scrambled to furl it.

Rather than end with recovery efforts, however, this volume segues sentimentally to a more innocent era when the standing towers served as a background for scenic cityscapes by Burt Glinn, Raymond Depardon and others inside and outside Magnum.

She has served as a background dancer for household names like Kylie Minogue and Ed Sheeran, and was even featured in videos for Jessie J singles "Do It Like a Dude" and "Price Tag".

C57BL/6 mice served as a background strain for IFN-γR−/− mice.

Activated Thy1.1+ OT-1 CD8+ T cells adoptively transferred into uninfected recipient mice served as a background control.

A network of dangling cream-colored strings serves as a background set; an illuminated white platform, strewed with flowers and petals, is the staging area.

Futurist curving shapes serve as a background to a figural monumental horse moving forward like a force of nature toward the viewer.

East Garfield Boulevard, on Chicago's South Side, could serve as a background in a big-city cop drama: driving just a few blocks, you pass empty lots, a discount muffler shop, a "food and liquor" emporium, and a Tax Service establishment.

But Purcell's music serves as a background to these three rather trite stories: a low point is reached when Dido's lament is accompanied by the sound of the suicidal Helen squeezing pills out of their packet.

For their Study House #8 the Eames's visualised their clients as themselves - a married couple working in design and graphic arts, who "wanted a home that would make no demands for itself, but would, instead serve as a background for 'life in work' with nature as a 'shock absorber'".