backdrop

Example Sentences

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The capital's world-class, year-round waves not only serve as the backdrop to the girls' lives, but also attract surfers from across the globe, including to the famed Ngor Right wave where the girls often practise.

From Barron's

For the fiscal year, the company withdrew its prior guidance for earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization and free cash flow, citing a complex beauty market backdrop and its leadership transition.

From The Wall Street Journal

So while the macroeconomic backdrop can be the same for both gold and silver, the metals have what Koos referred to as two “very different personalities.”

From MarketWatch

Ahead of the shutdown last year, Tom Hammersley, marketing manager at Staffordshire Chambers of Commerce, told the BBC that the drop in demand at Wedgwood had come against a backdrop of increasing costs.

From BBC

But to snap a portrait of one delicious little donut dude with a backdrop of the city that embraces him.

From Salon