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

For years, he had her toss the discus in practice to the background music of the Blue Danube Waltz.

From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2024

I can almost hear the documentary’s mournful violin background music start up.

From "The Benefits of Being an Octopus" by Ann Braden