backdrops
- plural of backdrop.
Example Sentences
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I had no idea how I was going to pull that off until Broderson Backdrops came through with the perfect 25-by-25-foot backdrop.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025
Backdrops range from ill-lit hotel rooms and Balinese waterfalls to Sahara dunes and snow-capped summits.
From Slate • Feb. 24, 2021
Backdrops, or backings, are the enormous paintings that make the movie and television industries possible by stretching the confines of a studio set into endless possibility.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2019
Backdrops will have the capacity to be moved to within less than a quarter-inch of the desired position, instead of within roughly four inches.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2012
Backdrops are the misty, indistinct shapes of Catawba, Boston, London or Paris, projected from colored slides.
From Time Magazine Archive
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