How to Use out of the frame in a Sentence

out of the frame

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  • The rest of the hotel room’s furniture cleared out of the frame.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Then the boys — dressed in gi, posed in defiant stances — leap out of the frame.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • The force of the collision pushed the work truck several yards down the road and out of the frame.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The sedan rolls backward out of the frame and the footage doesn’t capture where the three shooters go.
    — Austindedios, oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2023
  • With Nayou at his side, just out of the frame, Nicko told their story.
    — Washington Post, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The beast has been killed, the brush has grown wild, and Elif strides out of the frame with her eyes cast down, carrying her Quran.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
  • In back-to-back photos, Ward saw the orchid bounce entirely out of the frame, first down and then up.
    — Steven Bedard, Discover Magazine, 26 Nov. 2019
  • In their work, Christo and Jean-Claude reframed the familiar, and took art out of the frame and the museum.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2021
  • North and Monroe then playfully push their moms out of the frame and reclaim the spotlight.
    — Sabrina Park, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Only one panel fell out of the frame after a local high wind event.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Feb. 2023
  • In the first photo, Gus, 10 months, looks out of the frame while Moore and Goldsmith, 36, appear out of focus behind him.
    — Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 1 Jan. 2022
  • In the few shots with humans, their faces are usually out of focus or out of the frame, and none ever speaks to the camera.
    — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2021
  • Michael Fulmer in the ninth worked around a two-out walk and single to get out of the frame with a scoreless inning on a diving grab by Schoop.
    — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 24 Apr. 2022
  • But one of the most interesting details about that photo occurred out of the frame.
    — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Movies, at least the ones Hollywood has produced for over a century, frequently leave a lot of people out of the frame.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 11 Sep. 2022
  • The mailbox launches out of the frame, finally crashing into the dirt a good five seconds later.
    — Eric Dexheimer, ExpressNews.com, 16 Oct. 2020
  • De La Rosa changed into a white bikini with a matching fringe cover-up and reflected on the trip in a photo holding someone's hand, with the person next to her cut out of the frame.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
  • But in a 15-second video, a lot of nuance and information can be left out of the frame, leaving the viewer confused about how to structure their shoulder training.
    — Tyler Hatfield, Men's Health, 26 Apr. 2022
  • In the 15-second clip, filmed in a living room, the kids stood in a line before their grandfather, spinning away from the camera as Winkler dramatically sashayed out of the frame as the beat dropped.
    — Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 3 Jan. 2022
  • Can F**k Himself proves that there’s a richer story to be told once the silently suffering wives and next-door neighbors are given the opportunity to shove the Kevins of the world out of the frame and take center stage.
    — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 14 June 2021
  • Throughout a series of Instagram Stories showcasing her outfit, Jenner posted a sneaky photo of her date, his head cut out of the frame.
    — Michelle Lee, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2022
  • During the altercation, the cameras repeatedly zeroed in on Lavigne in an attempt to keep the protester out of the frame.
    — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • In her stories, there is usually a tragedy just out of the frame, something intimate that wrenches free something historical.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2020
  • Under voice-over, Mark would walk in and out of the frame, powering up his computer, setting down a glass, dropping ice into the glass, pouring vodka over the ice, pouring orange juice over the vodka, and then sitting down and typing.
    — Aaron Sorkin, EW.com, 21 Dec. 2021
  • In a perhaps inadvertently telling gesture, the camera eases the suffering, flatlining patient out of the frame and creeps slowly toward Charles, whose inscrutable expression is meant to chill you to the bone.
    — Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2022

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