Sentence examples for the background made from inspiring English sources

My English was good enough to understand half of what she said, and the scratching noises in the background made me sweat for the missed half.

But the twinkling figures he played behind a passionate love duet, as tiny stars lighted up in the background, made me want to hear Mr. Giannini's original orchestration.

John Roper, Lord Roper, who has died aged 80, was the consummate politician who, working largely in the background, made things happen.

He climbed the stairs to the roof of the Perkins building at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophisics, pointed his laptop's video camera at himself and, with the center's 9-inch Clark telescope dome in the background, made a science sales pitch directly to the public.

The heightened level of concentration that can be attained under such circumstances makes us conscious that the poor quality of the sound and the jazz music playing in the background made it impossible to ascertain a continuous conversation for the better part of the duration.

We need the blender in the background making margaritas".

But they'll run away quietly in the background, making the overall experience easier.

But Larry was in the background making sure all the gears meshed and all the wheels turned".

Over all, the figures, with blurry edges that seem to merge into the background, make surprisingly little impact.

That is why on the song Polio, you can hear the toads of Kinshasa zoo in the background, making their own atmospheric contribution.

Friends say that while Law is the ideas man, Abraham is the pragmatic one in the background making sure things get done.