Usage examples for background
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The river kept the pilot ambition always fresh, and the cave supplied a background for those other things. – Mark Twain, A Biography, Vol. 1, Part 1, 1835-1866 The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine
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If we had a water background, now. – Into the Primitive by Robert Ames Bennet
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Certain girls have kept strictly in the background. – Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham Flower