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backlights

n. (plural of backlight English)

Usage examples of "backlights".

The blue backlights died to be replaced by a single brilliant spotlight illuminating only the cage and Escott, leaving the rest of the auditorium in contrasting blackness.

A first-floor light in the house across Brainerd lights up and backlights a figure in a sort of suit and metal wheelchair sitting right up next to the window in the sideways way of wheelchairs that want to get right up next to something, scanning the street and Nuck-swarmed yard.

Sun-glow backlights his perfect profile with a golden halo, and as usual I can't quite get mad at him.

His graying hair, cut long in the back to compensate for its gradual retreat in front, defied the best efforts of spray and gel to get it to lie down, and the backlights of the set turned them into silvery scratches against the dark blue background.

His graying hair, cut long in the back to comĀ­pensate for its gradual retreat in front, defied the best efforts of spray and gel to get it to lie down, and the backlights of the set turned them into silvery scratches against the dark blue background.

A blaze of stars backlights a sky-spanning display of aurora borealis.