How to Use scrim in a Sentence

scrim

noun

• The irony of the pastoral scene pictured on the main scrim is not lost.
  — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 2 Aug. 2017
• Note the dusty scrim streaming out over the ocean from Africa's west coast.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2016
• Behind a gauzy scrim on the other side of the stage is a white wall.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 24 May 2017
• The scrim of daytime sky gives way to a bright spangle of stars.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 2 May 2017
• The scrim of daytime sky gives way to a bright spangle of stars.
  — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• Now the only light was the glow of the moon and pinpoints of stars behind a scrim of clouds.
  — Maria Russo, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2019
• Worse yet, the first two-thirds of the picture look dim and murky, as if it had been shot through a scrim of dust motes.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 16 May 2018
• Twain stood still to the side of the stage as images of flowers bloomed on a scrim behind her.
  — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 10 June 2018
• In that small entry, the wall to the right has a door-sized opening covered with a white scrim.
  — Laura Jacobs, WSJ, 12 June 2021
• In the distance, the lights of the Southland twinkled underneath a scrim of haze.
  — Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2024
• Pale pink scrims of raw Hamachi ($16) glisten with bright plum sauce and pop with the sharp tang of pickled onion.
  — Michael Nagrant, RedEye Chicago, 6 Oct. 2017
• One of the big plot lines is using the scrim for the show and girls not wanting to be seen changing by the audience.
  — Jessica Iredale, Town & Country, 18 Oct. 2020
• For this song, the female lifeguard emerges from behind the scrim, holding a set of dog tags.
  — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• Images from Wimsey’s war past appear through the now clear scrim of the bookshelf.
  — Jerald Pierce, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• The genealogical tree that descends on a scrim between the first few scenes is a kind of holy record.
  — Naveen Kumar, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2022
• Pretty soon, though, Ernaux pulled down the scrim of fiction and adopted the first person.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
• While the audience members settle into their seats, a sheer, bluish scrim stretches from the ceiling to the edge of the stage.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2022
• Like a starry dome, there is no separation of scrim and stage.
  — Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• After a few build-up-the-tension moments, the scrim dropped to reveal Payare and the orchestra, ready to play.
  — Adam Nagourney, New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• Mostly because what Ms. Kawakubo showed, on a blush pink runway, in front of a blush pink scrim, was kind of a sly riposte to the red carpet.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2017
• The design uses a special kind of scrim that appears opaque when lit from the front but can be seen through when lit from behind.
  — Maren Estrada, BGR, 31 May 2021
• And if these young Black men can’t see through the scrim of history and race and policing to salvage a shred of empathy, then who can?
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 1 Feb. 2023
• One, who appears grinning on a scrim, is named Moishe, which is Yiddish for Maurice.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2022
• None of it could account for the light in the Bay Area on Wednesday, September 9th: a dark, ochre stain, like a scrim over the sunrise, that deepened as the day wore on.
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2020
• That real-life subtext is hard to ignore, and at times seems like a scrim between us and the fictional world.
  — Caryn James, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2023
• Pappas’s terrace off her living room is veiled in privacy thanks to the leafy scrim.
  — Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 2 Aug. 2021
• It is often used as a camera filming the actors in close-ups that are projected onto the scrim that fronts the stage.
  — Charles Isherwood, WSJ, 17 June 2022
• There is no hiding the message of the girls’ disappearances behind a rosy scrim.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Republic, 22 May 2018
• Dancers swim against the pixel current and disappear to reform their group behind the scrim.
  — Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Aug. 2023
• The picture’s white voids seem to glow like candles behind a blue scrim, an effect as striking as the technique is simple.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024