background

01. We always do a security check on an applicant's [background] before hiring anyone.

02. Sometimes I wonder if he has some kind of secret in his [background] because he never wants to talk about his life growing up.

03. He is working as an administrator, but his [background] is in law.

04. The [background] music in the movie was really effective in creating a mood of romance.

05. She took a photo of Paris from the Notre Dame Cathedral, and you could just see the Eiffel Tower in the [background].

06. We need some [background] information on the company before deciding if we want to work with them.

07. What kind of [background] do you have in education?

08. Barbara Bush once remarked that bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different [backgrounds], you are going to do that.

09. For the film "The Little Mermaid," one thousand different colors were used on 1,100 [backgrounds].

10. A security check of the suspect's [background] showed that he was wanted on assault charges in Seattle.

11. Our students bring a great deal of [background] knowledge to their study of a second language.

12. The Finnish flag is a blue cross on a white [background], and was adopted in 1918.

13. The Danish flag, with a white cross on a red [background], is the oldest national flag in the world.

14. Studies show that people with a high income are more than twice as likely to attend university as those from lower income [backgrounds].

15. The color of some animals changes with the color of their [background].

16. Physical appearance is determined in large part by one's genetic [background].

17. Similarity of genetic [background] has been proven to be a greater predictor of intelligence that similarity of environment.