scrim

Example Sentences

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The latter song featured a big surprise: actor Dakota Johnson spoke from behind a scrim as the titular character and then appeared next to Allen when the song ended.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2025

A scrim will cover the huge window itself so that no one outside can peer in to see who’s bidding.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

The audience could see me through the scrim, but they couldn’t hear us.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024

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

Sketched upon the pall of soot downstream the outline of a burnt city like a black paper scrim.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy