scrim

Example Sentences

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Scene 2, a scrim projection informs us, takes place eight years later, moving us back into the time frame of the original libretto.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

His protection was a thin scrim of hotel security and rent-a-cops hired for crowd control.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

Random object juxtapositions create ever-changing patterns of illumination, which reflect off an angled mirror fixed above and onto the back of the big scrim.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2024

Then Lee Greenwood live-performed Trump’s longtime walk-on music, “God Bless the U.S.A.,” while a scrim slowly rose to reveal an shadowed Trump on the stage, with his name written behind him.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024

She’d said nothing to him about the abortion, and it sat between them like a scrim, blurring everything.

From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng