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Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The roof structure was full of steel construction elements with plenty of light reflections, creating a rather distracting background.

From BBC

“Mr Wexner cooperated fully by providing background information on Epstein and was never contacted again,” they said.

From Salon

Instead, it works as a multi-layered system where continuous processes influence discrete events, and discrete events reshape the continuous background, over and over, in an ongoing feedback loop.

From Science Daily

So there is a little bit, like, foreground, background, as far as what’s white noise and what comes up to the front.

From The Wall Street Journal

John posted viral social media videos with the song playing in the background that drew more than 100 million views.

From Los Angeles Times