Sentence examples for the distant background from inspiring English sources

A potash mine appears in the distant background.

Tallis's words hover, unvoiced, in the distant background to the Fantasia.

Mostly, they got a close-up look at two contenders who are in the distant background in the race.

In the distant background, people in a neighborhood of houses festooned with American flags for the Fourth of July stood about, watching and wondering.

A group of praying figures are thrust up against the picture plane; next to them the jaws of Leviathan swallow up the condemned, with tiny bodies flung from a bridge into a fiery abyss in the distant background.

But conceptual categories, which are also used to organize the helpful catalog (published by The New Press), are not fully developed and, in appropriate humility, end up remaining in the distant background.

When, in the final panel of Ford's triptych, a gust of wind tousles Peppard's hair in the foreground and then continues across to the forest in the middle distance and on to the stand of trees in the most distant background, it seems like a true miracle of the movies: a breath of life, moving over the face of the earth.

The race has always been there in the very distant background, until Ellison and his Oracle Team USA finally won it 2010 off the coast of Spain.

Just like your thumb appears to move if you hold it at arm's length and switch viewing it between your left eye and your right, so do the nearest stars move position relative to the more distant background stars when you view them six months apart.

Motion transverse to the line of sight causes the position of Vega to shift with respect to the more distant background stars.

The parallax method, employed since the 1800s, involves noting the apparent change in position of a nearby star relative to the more distant, background ones.