How to Use project onto in a Sentence
project onto
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Red, white and blue lights glowed behind the teen starlet while different Olympic events and athletes were projected onto her guitar amps and walls.
—Bryan West, USA TODAY, 28 July 2024
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The scenes have titles that are projected onto the stage.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
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A lot of guilt that should have been spread around was, instead, buried or projected onto Fab and Rob.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 June 2023
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At the exact point in the scene where the film’s title appears on screen over the action, there it is projected onto the stage background.
—David Benedict, Variety, 8 May 2024
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This job includes being a mirror or a blank screen for people to project onto and find themselves in.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 1 Mar. 2024
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Oh, and the outdoor movie screen projected onto the actual house, was a feature that just blew my mind!
—Kaitlin Kemp, House Beautiful, 20 Apr. 2023
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Taylor spent that summer watching avant garde black and white films by Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol projected onto the wall.
—April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 28 Jan. 2024
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As the images were projected onto a screen, relatives of the victims began to cry in the courtroom.
—Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2024
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The fun decorative touch is the colorful lights projecting onto the top floors of the building.
—Martie Bowser, Essence, 16 May 2024
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The virtues projected onto beauty work just as much against those who don’t fulfill beauty’s ideals.
—Sable Yong, TIME, 28 June 2024
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The amber lighting projected onto his wall like a soothing sunset was such a vibe.
—Brie Schwartz, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2023
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While lasers and a fiery backdrop lit up the stage, an image of Takeoff reaching his hand towards the sky was projected onto the massive screen behind them.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 July 2023
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Each light, which features a leafy pattern that projects onto the ground below, takes about six hours to fully charge and stays illuminated for up to 10 hours.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Apr. 2024
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Yachty’s band and singers appeared on stage first, all dressed in white, while trippy, dream-like visuals projected onto a huge screen behind them.
—Jordan Moreau, Variety, 25 Sep. 2023
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Their images were also projected onto the impressive venue, which sits inside a 366-foot-tall orb near the Las Vegas Strip.
—Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 26 Oct. 2023
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Near the end of the clip, the audience shuffles out and Dun and Tyler move to the front of a classroom while a series of mysterious symbols, maps and legends are projected onto their faces.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Feb. 2024
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Some of the Braille messages appear on screens that are inaccessible to blind people or are projected onto the floor.
—Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
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His live sketches and rhythmic erasures get projected onto a scrim in real time.
—Vulture, 23 May 2023
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The doctor appeared with the image of a father, a mother, or a brother projected onto him and evoked a range of similar feelings.
—Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 11 July 2023
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Each time Adam paced toward the window, the image of Maoism assembling inside his head projected onto the glass.
—Matt B. Weir, Harper's Magazine, 11 Jan. 2022
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All the bad feelings circulating during the band’s breakup in May 1970 were projected onto it by both the public and the Beatles themselves.
—Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 8 May 2024
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The ability to project onto a mystery was crucial to maintaining the illusion.
—Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
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The competitors gathered in a room, sequestered from the audience; each had a camera trained on his or her clipboard, with live-feed video projected onto a screen in the ballroom.
—Siobhan Roberts Chloë Ellingson, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2023
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For example, as Mowgli prepared to shoot a bow and arrow, the moments learning how to do so with her mother were projected onto a downstage screen.
—Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
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Outside, museum visitors could use telescopes or see the eclipse projected onto a piece of poster board.
—Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
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Fans project onto the personal lives of beloved celebrities, bullying their enemies until the celeb has to release a statement telling people to back off.
—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024
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Why are things being assumed or projected onto me about my relationship with my work colleague and boss?
—USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
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In observations of real stellar nurseries, much of this material is projected onto the plane of the image, so there's no way to tell what's in front and what's behind.
—Nia Imara, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
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That’s almost like the parent's grandiosity being projected onto the child.
—USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
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To a roaring crowd, Tupac, artificially generated using CGI and projected onto the stage, rose up from out of the ground like a ghost.
—Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 14 May 2024
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