How to Use foreground in a Sentence

foreground

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• We want the issue to be in the foreground.
• This is a first, for the women to be [in] the foreground.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2023
• The threads of lace — red and white — in the foreground are painted in a blur.
  — Nick Glass, CNN, 9 Feb. 2023
• The Facebook post claims the video shows the North Pole, but the footage shows a dry grassland in the foreground.
  — Dezimey Kum, USA TODAY, 29 Apr. 2022
• The man in the foreground, filming, wears a jacket of olive green.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2022
• Tumon Bay was in the background, not in the foreground.
  — New York Times, 13 Aug. 2023
• The original home in the foreground overlooks a stream and a pond.
  — Anthony Paletta, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2022
• The production area in the foreground with the stage area behind.
  — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
• The Mona Lisa doesn’t need more background because the purpose of the work is in the foreground.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 1 June 2023
• The foreground is in good focus while the background blur is smooth.
  — PCMAG, 3 Feb. 2023
• The final shot in the carousel showed a view from high up, with lush green trees in the foreground and the turquoise sea in the distance.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 31 Dec. 2023
• In the foreground of the painting, De Witte saw two heads of garlic, not onions.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023
• But over the years, as the album evolved, thoughts about time and the mind also moved into the foreground.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The photo showed Lennon with his arm wrapped around Ono and a young Sean posing in the foreground.
  — Emma Kershaw, Peoplemag, 6 Apr. 2023
• At one point, a Stormtrooper appeared as a hologram in the foreground of the screen.
  — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• What moved to the foreground were the mechanics of how to truly care for those who were right in front of me.
  — Joshua Mahoney, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2022
• Take the photograph with a dairy cow eating in the foreground.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 18 July 2023
• But the people Churchill met in brief encounters on his drive across the state take the foreground.
  — Sarah Yager, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2023
• The star of the painting is the guard’s captain, Michiel de Wael, who wears a yellow jerkin with an icy-blue sash in the foreground.
  — Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
• All fireworks look the same in the sky, so try to get something in the foreground or background to give it a sense of place or scale.
  — K.c. Alfred, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 June 2022
• In the foreground, far from the crowds in the distance, lies a beautiful young Black man, his back to debris left in the sand.
  — Casey Gerald, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2022
• An aerial view of the mills along the Merrimack River in Lawrence, with Route 495 in the foreground.
  — Andrew Brinker, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
• But McQuay painted people and a dog in the foreground to do so.
  — Rachel Stone, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• In the foreground were two white houses and a large flat gray building to the right, along with a blue low flat building.
  — Gianluca Mezzofiore and Katie Polglase, CNN, 28 Feb. 2022
• In the foreground, the dynamic gestures of the figures are worthy of a mime troupe.
  — Cammy Brothers, WSJ, 7 May 2022
• Queen Elizabeth is in the background, and Richard is in the foreground, in glasses.
  — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 20 Aug. 2022
• His mother stands in the foreground, gazing at the camera.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
• The photo shows high-rise buildings, a state highway and – in the foreground –mountains.
  — Taylor Seely, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2023
• Here's a view of our office with some rather impressive snow mounds in the foreground.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2022
• But now, the woman who worked behind the scenes has stepped into foreground.
  — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 June 2023

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foreground

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• Public discussion has foregrounded the issue of health care.
• Swift’s voice has become richer and stronger over the years; its clarity and tone foreground her lyrics.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 12 June 2023
• The index reifies it as a book, at the same time that the choice to foreground one topic or another might surprise even the author.
  — Alexandra Horowitz, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2022
• Seyfried is careful to foreground those qualities in her own work.
  — Caroline Framke, Variety, 5 May 2022
• The history is harsh but Williams foregrounds a structure that doesn’t alienate.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
• The season has been dropping small references to the Rust Cohle/Marty Hart story, and here the homages get foregrounded.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
• Sadly, many of the problems foregrounded in those early issues have not been solved five decades on.
  — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
• But this Springsteen is also foregrounding loss and age.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Baltimore Sun, 7 Apr. 2023
• But the older Ford hero excavates this idea, polishes it up, and foregrounds it.
  — Vulture, 10 July 2023
• The remix of the original album dials back on the guitar distortion and wipes the grime off Stipe’s vocals and foregrounds them in the arrangements.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 5 Nov. 2019
• To seek out and to foreground myths of a next online coming-of-age might mean reimagining online spaces and their purpose.
  — WIRED, 27 Sep. 2022
• But for players who want their heart rates to go down rather than up, there’s a growing crop of games that foreground quiet and unfussy tinkering.
  — Lewis Gordon, Wired, 2 Oct. 2021
• Steyer has one priority no one else in the race is foregrounding.
  — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 9 July 2019
• The episode foregrounds figures who have spent most of their screen time so far providing support to the protagonists; here, they’re shown to have their own lives and worries.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2024
• The struggle and suffering of transition — which can be one of the most difficult parts of a trans person’s life — is foregrounded.
  — Anne Branigin, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
• What Steward does is foreground certain subtextual elements of the play — and, of course, put Simon at the center of it.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• Many in the political press are reluctant to foreground these facts because Trump has not been convicted of a crime.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 July 2022
• The house was designed to foreground the views from the surrounding landscape, but since the movie takes place at night, eyelines between the actors were Grasley’s priority.
  — Vanessa Lawrence, ELLE Decor, 12 Feb. 2021
• The song opens with jangly electric piano, foregrounded by smokey synths.
  — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2017
• With Tanya, White allowed Coolidge to foreground the melancholy, or at least place it in bracing balance with her campier tendencies.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021
• But these two new findings foreground some concrete results that detail the consequences of a feedback loop that trains a model on its own output.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 June 2023
• Levine wanted to amp up Satine's anti-love songs to further foreground her pragmatic view of romance.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 28 May 2021
• Tedros, in contrast, is a pure villain — one Tesfaye isn’t sufficiently skilled as an actor to portray in a way that foregrounds his talent.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• There is a conceptual framework behind Ford’s decision to foreground the details of the crime.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2021
• From the beginning, the subtlety and brilliance of Cusk’s project arises from her decision not to foreground Faye’s specific loss.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2018
• And similarly, slapping the Princess™ label on Leia foregrounds the least interesting thing about her.
  — Laura Bradley, vanityfair.com, 5 Jan. 2017
• Always in the background—and sometimes foreground—of my journey as an entrepreneur and CEO is living with bipolar 2.
  — Chris Federspiel, Quartz, 13 Dec. 2022
• The new trailer instead foregrounds pop star Jocelyn’s (Lily-Rose Depp) attempts to re-establish herself at the top of the charts after a nervous breakdown on her last tour.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 May 2023
• News coverage of the war in Ukraine continues to foreground interesting words, such as sanctions and flywheel.
  — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 Apr. 2022
• What sets this new book apart is how Bacevich foregrounds the question of what American foreign policy means.
  — Roy Scranton, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2020

Last Updated: 3 May 2024