How to Use in the background in a Sentence

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  • The videos, due April 19, must use the song in the background.
    Variety, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Nabil could hear the pounding of bombs in the background.
    Rozina Ali, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Both pointed to a pier in the background of the video and said the city's beach doesn't have a pier.
    Chris Eberhart, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2024
  • And growing up in news, your job was to be in the background.
    Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • All this happening to the sounds of war in the background.
    Venya Brykalin, Vogue, 4 Mar. 2024
  • The non-diegetic theme song plays in the background one last time.
    Delia Casadei, The Conversation, 31 May 2023
  • Liselotte, who is 70 years old, still runs the business in the background, though.
    Yolanda Evans, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Screaming could be heard in the background of nearly all the calls.
    Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 30 May 2023
  • The shades were drawn; a lava lamp bubbled in the background.
    Reid Forgrave, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
  • New warning signs emerge in the background of the Maine gunman.
    Richie Duchon, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2023
  • Then the ‘Tinsley Ranch’ has the ovals and some neutral oak barrels to show the wood in the background.
    Adam Morganstern, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • That distinctly warm breeze, and the faint sound of an ice cream truck in the background?
    Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 12 May 2023
  • Snyder largely has been in the background for the last two years.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2023
  • Seebach said in the video, in which a tour boat full of people can be seen in the background.
    Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 1 May 2024
  • But this time, with the war in the background, there are new rules to the game, and both Putin and the Russian public know them.
    Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 1 Dec. 2023
  • There’s a sense of wartime in the background, and a sense of inevitability.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 June 2023
  • The app also has a white noise feature that will play ocean waves sounds in the background.
    Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 10 May 2023
  • The calf swam up in the background, just as Iliya was preparing to head back to the surface to take a breath.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In the video, Lipa and her dancers dance the day away by and in a giant pool with a city skyline in the background.
    Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The stage was bare, except for a mirror in the background that served as a dancing tool.
    Oline Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Gunfire and screaming could be heard in the background.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 30 May 2023
  • There’s quite a lot in the background of how Crunchyroll came to be as a company.
    Nick Statt, The Verge, 26 Feb. 2024
  • To the left of the eagle, a coyote appears to skulk in the background, waiting for its turn with the carcass.
    Helena Wegner, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Livestock can be seen in the background standing in the sunshine.
    Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 2 May 2023
  • The video shows clips of the group posing for videos and dancing around different sets as the song’s play in the background.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2023
  • But there’s also the threatening nature that plays out in the background, on the news.
    Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 20 June 2023
  • The victim was a 6-year-old boy who was heard crying in the background of the call, WFAA reported.
    Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In audio of the 911 call, Castro can be heard in the background screaming for help in Spanish.
    Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • The first snap shows Cookie stuck to the sink, looking fearfully to the side as someone works in the background to remove the drain.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 1 June 2023
  • The cult classic sci-fi movie was always playing on VHS in the background of his childhood.
    Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 27 July 2023

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