How to Use scrim in a Sentence

scrim

noun
  • The irony of the pastoral scene pictured on the main scrim is not lost.
    Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 2 Aug. 2017
  • Note the dusty scrim streaming out over the ocean from Africa's west coast.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2016
  • Behind a gauzy scrim on the other side of the stage is a white wall.
    Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 24 May 2017
  • The scrim of daytime sky gives way to a bright spangle of stars.
    Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
  • The scrim of daytime sky gives way to a bright spangle of stars.
    Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Now the only light was the glow of the moon and pinpoints of stars behind a scrim of clouds.
    Maria Russo, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Worse yet, the first two-thirds of the picture look dim and murky, as if it had been shot through a scrim of dust motes.
    Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 May 2018
  • Twain stood still to the side of the stage as images of flowers bloomed on a scrim behind her.
    Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 10 June 2018
  • In that small entry, the wall to the right has a door-sized opening covered with a white scrim.
    Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 12 June 2021
  • In the distance, the lights of the Southland twinkled underneath a scrim of haze.
    Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2024
  • Pale pink scrims of raw Hamachi ($16) glisten with bright plum sauce and pop with the sharp tang of pickled onion.
    Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 6 Oct. 2017
  • One of the big plot lines is using the scrim for the show and girls not wanting to be seen changing by the audience.
    Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2020
  • For this song, the female lifeguard emerges from behind the scrim, holding a set of dog tags.
    Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
  • Images from Wimsey’s war past appear through the now clear scrim of the bookshelf.
    Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The genealogical tree that descends on a scrim between the first few scenes is a kind of holy record.
    Naveen Kumar, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2022
  • Pretty soon, though, Ernaux pulled down the scrim of fiction and adopted the first person.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • While the audience members settle into their seats, a sheer, bluish scrim stretches from the ceiling to the edge of the stage.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Like a starry dome, there is no separation of scrim and stage.
    Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
  • After a few build-up-the-tension moments, the scrim dropped to reveal Payare and the orchestra, ready to play.
    Adam Nagourney, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Mostly because what Ms. Kawakubo showed, on a blush pink runway, in front of a blush pink scrim, was kind of a sly riposte to the red carpet.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2017
  • The design uses a special kind of scrim that appears opaque when lit from the front but can be seen through when lit from behind.
    Maren Estrada, BGR, 31 May 2021
  • And if these young Black men can’t see through the scrim of history and race and policing to salvage a shred of empathy, then who can?
    Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
  • One, who appears grinning on a scrim, is named Moishe, which is Yiddish for Maurice.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
  • None of it could account for the light in the Bay Area on Wednesday, September 9th: a dark, ochre stain, like a scrim over the sunrise, that deepened as the day wore on.
    Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2020
  • That real-life subtext is hard to ignore, and at times seems like a scrim between us and the fictional world.
    Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Pappas’s terrace off her living room is veiled in privacy thanks to the leafy scrim.
    Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 2 Aug. 2021
  • It is often used as a camera filming the actors in close-ups that are projected onto the scrim that fronts the stage.
    Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 17 June 2022
  • There is no hiding the message of the girls’ disappearances behind a rosy scrim.
    Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 22 May 2018
  • Dancers swim against the pixel current and disappear to reform their group behind the scrim.
    Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
  • The picture’s white voids seem to glow like candles behind a blue scrim, an effect as striking as the technique is simple.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023

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