- plural of scene.
scenes
Example Sentences
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Organizers had been unable to renew their contract, and Stern suspected something was happening behind the scenes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“The justice often publicly portrayed as unyielding and inflexible is, behind the scenes, the conservative who is uniquely adept at finding common ground on the most divisive issues.”
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026
He has also visited China -- which previously backed him behind the scenes, according to analysts -- as well as India and Russia.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
The 70m-long Bayeux Tapestry depicts 58 scenes outlining the extraordinary events surrounding the Norman conquest of England, the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and the end of Anglo-Saxon rule in Britain.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
The motif had been a popular one in earlier Dutch genre scenes, where bubbles symbolized life’s brevity and, hence, the vanity of all earthly things.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
