to serve as a backdrop

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• The landforms (rivers, mountains, fields, prairies, roads), the weather, the birds, animals, trees, flora, and fauna of the Big Sky West all serve as a backdrop for these sundry tales and tellings.

  Academic text (1990)

• The historic castle serves as a backdrop during the summer festival.

• A wall of brown mountains serves as a backdrop.

  Fiction book (2001)

• While apparently serving as a backdrop for the action on the screen, the porch points up the way of life that Bedford Falls permits.

  Academic text (2002)

• The marble piers now bear an aedicule, which would presumably serve as a backdrop for a statue.

  Academic text (1992)

• On the narrow side street where the two young people met their fate, there is a long wall, part of a warehouse, that serves as a backdrop for the site of the burnings.

  Academic text (1990)

• The program began with a procession of elementary students who carried their masks through the gym and then hung them from a wooden stand that served as a backdrop for the celebration.

  Academic text (2006)

• We staged that play outside on the compound in early summer, in front of the gym's rear entrance, the aging red brick wall of the institution serving as a backdrop.

  Fiction book (2000)

• The "Mantel Wimpey Show" serves as a backdrop for a satirical farce about the way young people are portrayed in relation to environmental problems in their community and the effects this portrayal has on their self-confidence and self-perception.

  Fiction book (1997)

• However, Seth's platitudes about the allure of entrepreneurship and the ease of the neoliberal life in America also serve as a backdrop for this near pitch-black scene of a New York state highway and the ghostly silhouettes of trees off in the distance.

  Academic text (2016)

How Prominent

to predominate

1 7.0

to serve as a backdrop

1 4.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology