project onto

phrasal 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

Recent Examples on the Web

At Coen’s instruction, Harvey’s shirtless photo from the combine was projected onto part of the screen covering the far wall, displaying the running back’s muscular physique. —Michael Silver, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2025

At Hollywood Forever, the final resting place of Hollywood and music stars such as Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney and Johnny Ramone, films are projected onto a mausoleum wall and moviegoers sit and sprawl on the cemetery’s Fairbanks Lawn (an open area with no graves). —Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2025

Those messages will then be projected onto the walls of the bar for the filming of a music video. —Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2025

At the time Van Maanen 2 was found, such spectra were recorded in a similar fashion as images; the light from the telescope was projected onto a glass plate and sprayed with photographically sensitive chemicals. —Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 Mar. 2025