Sentence examples for served as backdrop from inspiring English sources

Since March 10, Ms. Prince has been living in an apartment in the Intervale Green complex, on Intervale Avenue between Freeman Street and Louis Niñe Boulevard, an infamous strip of South Bronx urban blight (it served as backdrop for some of the most gruesome scenes in the movie "Fort Apache, the Bronx").

The glittering towers of downtown served as backdrop.

Such works once served as backdrops for Pardeh-Khani, performances in which narrators told stories depicted in the canvases.

Art heists, first dates, encounters with the undead; museums have served as backdrops to these and other movie scenes over the last century.

Over several days — and weeks ahead of the auto show's opening — carefully selected locations in Manhattan and Brooklyn served as backdrops for the video that would lead to the Sport's cinematic entrance.

The pattern-on-pattern look became his signature style of portraiture: the patterns on his sitters' gowns and robes against the wonderfully patterned pieces of cloth that served as backdrops or as coverings for the chaise longues.

Brandt has been filming tributes from fashion and art luminaries since 2003, many shot on locations that once served as backdrops for Bourdin's sinister and erotic shoots: "Swanky hotels, down-at-heel cafes, deserted cemeteries," says Brandt.

The landmark stoops and brownstones on Stuyvesant Avenue between Lexington and Quincy street that served as backdrops for Radio Raheem's Love Vs.

With the nearby Himalayan peaks serving as backdrop, Mr. Dar said, "I love the lake.

Views of neighboring Saba and St. Eustatius, rising like volcanoes in the sea, serve as backdrop.

Images of the performers cavorting in the wetlands serve as backdrop to a dance set to the Cuban music of Tiempo Libre and the indie folk of Andrew Bird.