scrim

Example Sentences

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Scene 2, a scrim projection informs us, takes place eight years later, moving us back into the time frame of the original libretto.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

His protection was a thin scrim of hotel security and rent-a-cops hired for crowd control.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

But who doesn’t perk up a bit when the scrim of perfection that shields the private lives of high-profile, perfectly turned-out couples is torn, even for one brief moment?

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2025

Then Lee Greenwood live-performed Trump’s longtime walk-on music, “God Bless the U.S.A.,” while a scrim slowly rose to reveal an shadowed Trump on the stage, with his name written behind him.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024

Beneath a translucent scrim of clouds at eight o’clock in the morning on November 1, 1938, Maryland Racing Commission chairman Jervis Spencer stepped out onto the smoky brown oval of Pimlico.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand