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foreground

noun as in part of a scene nearest the viewer

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noun as in prominent or important position

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Example Sentences

Dan worked hard and made a good picture: mountains, timber, blue sky…and in the foreground a blond girl and a unicorn.

Ladder 118 looks small on the Brooklyn Bridge; in the foreground both towers billow soot.

So of course, we start swimming toward it because I wanted the underwater camera guy to shoot me in the foreground of this shark.

It never was until I started performing live myself that I had to be in the foreground.

Foreground figures in “Street” are wildly out of focus, which is normally a feature that we only see in still photographs.

Nothing will be easier then to throw the Poles into the shade of the picture, or to occupy the foreground with a brilliant review.

But agitation unlocks wayward fancies and sends them scurrying inopportunely across the very foreground of the mind.

In the foreground was a large house of two stories and no architecture whatever, although the roof was mercifully flat.

The scene is very amusing, and most of the interest centres in the foreground, where a coach is seen, about to start.

Sylvan scenes, with a dash of human savagery in the foreground, form the best relief for a too-extended assimilation of books.

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On this page you'll find 24 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to foreground, such as: focal point, focus, center, fore, forepart, and front.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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