Sentence examples for this is background from inspiring English sources

This is background saliva, the kind that's always flowing, though much more slowly.

But all of this is background to the urgent matter at hand.

"If she gets a hit it's on the record; if she whiffs this is background," an aide whispers.

All of this is background to Clinton's striking decision to remind us, via an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, of The Atlantic, that she is more hawkish than Obama.

But for Bean, this is background noise, and Walls uses more specific details to ground her story in that era: chicken potpies, Tab, a car's push-in lighter, "untangling Mom's wind chimes" before company arrives, a proudly owned Pontiac Le Mans and "the glazed iris-blue mug Mom had made when she was in her ceramic-pottery phase".

All of this is background to our reading on Monday.

This was background music to the white hunter's sotto voce story about his adventures with the Nairobi criminals four years ago.

As I said, one thing not included in this version is background location.

This is the background, though.

But this is their background, their culture".

But this is all background information.