How to Use foreground in a Sentence

foreground

1 of 2 noun
  • We want the issue to be in the foreground.
  • In the foreground, there’s a hazy cloud of smoke.
    — Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2025
  • That brown, pockmarked rock in the foreground is ours too.
    — Rebecca Boyle, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The foreground is in good focus while the background blur is smooth.
    — PCMAG, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The man in the foreground, filming, wears a jacket of olive green.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2022
  • The body of the foreground object briefly blocks light from the star, as do any rings or satellites.
    — Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The original home in the foreground overlooks a stream and a pond.
    — Anthony Paletta, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The bright stars with the diffraction spikes are closer to us in the foreground.
    — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Plant color in the foreground to draw viewers’ eyes to that part of the landscape.
    — Neil Sperry, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Take the photograph with a dairy cow eating in the foreground.
    — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 18 July 2023
  • But now, the woman who worked behind the scenes has stepped into foreground.
    — Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
  • The production area in the foreground with the stage area behind.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2023
  • Here's a view of our office with some rather impressive snow mounds in the foreground.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 31 Dec. 2022
  • What tricked the tool was that some of the buildings were more distant than others in the foreground.
    — PC Magazine, 15 Nov. 2025
  • Orion is visible in the foreground on the left.
    — Miles Doran, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Orion is visible in the foreground on the left.
    — Tony Dokoupil, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Steamer ducks waded in the foreground.
    — Mark Johanson, Outside, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Two are dumped in the foreground on a heap of wood, one coffin minute, presumably of a child.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • This plant is a great choice for a rock garden, foreground of a border, or massed under trees or shrubs.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • Details of the moon appear in the photo's foreground.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Details of the moon appear in the photo's foreground.
    — Miles Doran, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Try to position your shot get a cactus, tree or building in the foreground.
    — Anne Ryman, The Arizona Republic, 9 May 2022
  • That change is one reason stylists have moved so visibly into the foreground.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • 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
  • At one point, a Stormtrooper appeared as a hologram in the foreground of the screen.
    — Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
  • 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
  • The old library building is a background building stuck in the foreground.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
  • In the foreground of the painting, De Witte saw two heads of garlic, not onions.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2023

foreground

2 of 2 verb
  • Public discussion has foregrounded the issue of health care.
  • The backdrop is the dark times, except when the dark times are foregrounded.
    — Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Seyfried is careful to foreground those qualities in her own work.
    — Caroline Framke, Variety, 5 May 2022
  • For the most part, Beef has foregrounded class divides.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Acme imparts a sense of trust by foregrounding its own lack of omniscience.
    — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The film foregrounds resilience but also survivor’s guilt.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 10 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Here, the effort is foregrounded.
    — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Steyer has one priority no one else in the race is foregrounding.
    — Kelsey Piper, Vox, 9 July 2019
  • The history is harsh but Williams foregrounds a structure that doesn’t alienate.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The song opens with jangly electric piano, foregrounded by smokey synths.
    — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2017
  • But the older Ford hero excavates this idea, polishes it up, and foregrounds it.
    — Vulture, 10 July 2023
  • Such a strategy might help foreground the play’s historical roots.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Nowadays, many such things are replaced with CG, but this is a film that foregrounds human craftsmanship.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 19 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Landline foregrounds Dana’s romantic travails, but none of these characters get short shrift.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 18 July 2017
  • 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
  • This is critical for extracting detail from faint nebulae and nightscape foregrounds.
    — James Abbott, Space.com, 25 Feb. 2026
  • For Bonhomme, however, this new focus simply foregrounds what was already there.
    — Ben Croll, Variety, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Seven Kingdoms, by contrast, foregrounds its humor.
    — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • Tems, in particular, got foregrounded by the video cameras, as the show took a more communal, less solipsistic turn.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • Before, a Sawayama concert might have had flashing lights and an imposing platform that foregrounded the pop star.
    — Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 1 June 2023
  • 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
  • The class divide that plays a major role in contemporary Iranian films is foregrounded here.
    — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018

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