"background" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They were the evil villains, you were the mystery woman with the vague and exotic background.
- The murmuring that had been building up as a vague background subsided abruptly.
- A meeting with Kim in Bahrain was dreamlike, quickly relegated to a vague background of fantasies and remembrance, against which his real world played.
- The subjects perch on branches against vague mountainous backgrounds under cloudy skies.
- From out of the vague background emerged a tall, commanding figure in loose-fitting clothes, leaning down to him, a broad hand on his slim shoulder.
- The figure and its dress contrasts with the vague, undefined background.
- Society is a vague, amorphous background that can be disregarded in one's efforts to fathom the laws of behavior" (Sarason 1981).
- For eight days, on alternate four-hour shifts, he watched with aching and bleary eyes those glinty metallic forms move against the vague background.
- In both cases, literature is not considered as such, but evaluated on a broad socio-political or a vague psychologico-impressionistic background.
- He had a vague background that could not easily be traced without tipping our hand too soon - again a hopeful circumstance.
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