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Example Sentences
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While she records her show and listens to the files at her kitchen table, the camera stays focused on Evy in the foreground, shrouded by the dark foyer behind her.
From Salon
It is also positioned so that telescopes in both hemispheres can observe it, and it lacks bright foreground objects that might block the view.
From Science Daily
Vibrant coral dots the foreground while a kaleidoscope of stars unfolds behind her.
I drew a symbol for myself with the mountain in the background, and in the foreground were the remains of Ernest B. Lawson Elementary School.
From Literature
The middle-aged artist appears in the picture’s foreground while behind her “are three small figures, dressed in the winter clothing of the girls of forty years ago.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
