How to Use project onto in a Sentence

project onto

phrasal verb
Definition of project ontonext
  • 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
  • The scenes have titles that are projected onto the stage.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The fun decorative touch is the colorful lights projecting onto the top floors of the building.
    — Martie Bowser, Essence, 16 May 2024
  • The virtues projected onto beauty work just as much against those who don’t fulfill beauty’s ideals.
    — Sable Yong, TIME, 28 June 2024
  • The amber lighting projected onto his wall like a soothing sunset was such a vibe.
    — Brie Schwartz, Glamour, 11 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • His live sketches and rhythmic erasures get projected onto a scrim in real time.
    — Vulture, 23 May 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The ability to project onto a mystery was crucial to maintaining the illusion.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Outside, museum visitors could use telescopes or see the eclipse projected onto a piece of poster board.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • Why are things being assumed or projected onto me about my relationship with my work colleague and boss?
    — USA TODAY, 10 July 2023
  • 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
  • That’s almost like the parent's grandiosity being projected onto the child.
    — USA TODAY, 1 Aug. 2023
  • 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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