They formed ranks and stood at attention, their uniforms glittering against the dark backdrop of the room.

The photo showed the two against a dark backdrop.

Against that dark backdrop, his life sometimes seemed like a display of fireworks.

I found myself watching the trees in bloom along the highway and beyond them the dark backdrop of the city.

The line of silhouetted women against a dark blue backdrop in the second movement is almost as striking.

Martell studied a gleaming bird high against the dark backdrop.

The other parafoils disappeared against the dark backdrop of the mountains.

Beyond that the primary rain forest formed a dark backdrop.

It stood alone, like a canvas sentinel, in a corner of the wide field, the forest a dark backdrop.

It had been like standing on the curving surface of a small, dead moon against the dark backdrop of space.