background music
Example Sentences
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The tariffs have largely been background music as investors weigh the artificial-intelligence build-out and inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
Herrmann, Hitchcock’s musical alter ego, also wrote the underscore, or background music.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026
Our expert content team has a way of sprinkling soothing magic on all of our Sleep Stories through the narrator's cadence to the background music to get people to lull to sleep.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2024
He went on to play the song Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell, a song Wright regularly used as background music for his show.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2024
I can almost hear the documentary’s mournful violin background music start up.
From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden
