project onto

verb

projected onto; projecting onto; projects onto

: to believe or imagine that (one's ideas, feelings, etc.) are shared by (another person)

She projected her fears onto him.

Examples of project onto in a Sentence

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And the galleries as a whole are meant to have a permanence akin to The Met’s Egyptian galleries or its Greek and Roman ones, according to Bolton, who highlighted the materiality, plaster walls, beams and lighting that also project onto the ceiling for a cloud-like feel. —Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 4 May 2026

At the Venice Biennale, Eshetu is showing The Garden of the Broken-Hearted (2026), a new work that revolves around an olive tree mounted on a rotating dais—with a video of the tree projected onto the tree itself. —Emmanuel Iduma, ARTnews.com, 4 May 2026

Attendees can experience the imagery of desert plants projected onto massive screens outside among the garden's plants. —Brittney Melton, NPR, 24 Apr. 2026

As the scene was projected onto a screen, Jude seemed slightly horrified to see himself in front of the camera rather than behind it. —Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026