How to Use stage in a Sentence

stage

1 of 3 noun

• He was on stage for the entire show.
• The actors walked out onto the stage.
• The company wants to compete on the world stage.
• He has no intention of leaving the political stage.
• This tour marks the first time these three acts have shared a stage.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• Watching all of these players on the big stage has pushed Clare to dream big.
  — Sari Hitchins, Parents, 18 July 2023
• The band consisted of a drummer and bassist on the right side of the stage, keyboardist, guitarist, and DJ on the left.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 2 Apr. 2024
• The Baker-Baum is not a huge space; large groups really do fill the stage.
  — Luke Schulze, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2023
• And Lorne started beating them up and pulling these people back from the stage.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
• Simpson’s flight from police in a white Ford Bronco in June 1994 set the stage.
  — Elahe Izadi, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2024
• The Disney stage adaptations are fun, where the movie remakes are a slog.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 1 June 2023
• Will reacted by taking to the stage and slapping Rock across the face.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• For all her work on stage and screen, Kristen Bell might best be known as the woman who cried over a sloth.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 29 Sep. 2023
• That looks more like the third stage of a soft landing than the lingering question if there will be one.
  — Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024
• Through the early stages of the affair, the Kougars controlled the pace, taking a 21-7 lead into halftime.
  — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2023
• Explore the big blue world with this lively new stage musical based on the beloved Pixar film.
  — The Enquirer, 14 Apr. 2024
• One by one, the 143 remaining contestants gave their all on stage in a battle to the death.
  — Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
• The 96th Academy Awards ceremony will have its fair share of stars in the crowd — and on stage.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2024
• Imagine a stage full of children singing that war song today.
  — Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
• Some cool new production, new songs, and a very very handsome man up on stage.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 16 May 2023
• The appeals court therefore ruled that the lower court had been wrong to dismiss the suit at such an early stage.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2024
• At that stage of the race, your body is depleted and flavors taste much more intense.
  — Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 3 Nov. 2023
• Twelve candidates have entered the race to date, but some are unlikely to make the stage for the first debate.
  — James Benedict, WSJ, 18 July 2023
• At this stage, your voice and face are the best developmental tools.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 8 Mar. 2024
• Sporting both Versace bodysuits and Ashish tees, Swift has brought some wow-worthy looks to the stage.
  — Genevieve Cepeda, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Galaxy, eliminated in the group stage of the Leagues Cup tournament, haven’t played in three weeks.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2023
• The women’s team didn’t make it out of the group stage in Thailand, but Luna still loved the experience.
  — David Gardner, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• Organizers of the rally displayed photos of the hostages on a stage.
  — Catherine Stupp, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2023
• But making any changes to the package at this stage seemed unlikely with so little time to spare.
  — Scott McFetridge and Hannah Fingerhut, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2023
• No Doubt ended their nine-year hiatus with a buzzy Coachella set on the main stage on Saturday night.
  — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2024

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stage

2 of 3 verb

• The students staged a protest.
• The school stages two plays each year.
• The school is staging a track meet.
• The prisoners are staging a hunger strike.
• His career as a singer appeared to be over, but then he staged a comeback.
• The photograph of the two leaders shaking hands was deliberately staged.
• Dozens of protests were staged in smaller towns and villages as well.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
• But the event is being staged — for the third time, no less — by the Boca Ballet Theatre.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, Sun Sentinel, 17 Jan. 2024
• That’s not bad company to share the Plaza de Cesar Chavez stage with.
  — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 6 Apr. 2024
• Pro wrestling has always been staged, and the audience knew it but didn’t care.
  — Irina Aleksander, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2024
• But great work was still staged at local theaters in 2023.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Dec. 2023
• Soderberg stages each scene in a long unbroken take, ending each one of them with a cut to black.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
• Gingery duck confit fills the crisp spring rolls, staged on their sweet chile dipping sauce.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
• Notably, each of the nine states that will stage World Cup games in 2026 has had multiple mass shootings this year.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• That is less than half the number of leaders who attended the 2019 Summit staged by the Kremlin.
  — Paul Tilsley, Fox News, 29 July 2023
• When: Open houses typically are staged in the spring and fall.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• The protesters have stopped traffic, staged die-ins, filled the National Mall.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• Canha's double in the 10th inning Wednesday tied the game and helped the Brewers stage a walk-off win over the Colorado Rockies.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2023
• Farmers in Spain staged similar actions in their fourth straight day of protests.
  — CiarÁn Giles and Monika Scislowska The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 10 Feb. 2024
• The trailer teases a film that looks like it could be staged as a play, as it's almost completely set in the hotel room.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 1 May 2023
• Howard Blum: It's staged in a way that is almost, in a strange way, ominously predicting.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2023
• Ask Wearstler about how to stage a great party, how to select just the right paint color for your living room, or how to style tiny spaces.
  — Jura Koncius, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The Blue Album had the same lads seven years later, re-staging the photo as longhair adults.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Apr. 2023
• Over the last six months thousands have flocked to the Mexican border town, staging near the Rio Grande River and preparing to cross when the time is right.
  — Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 6 May 2023
• These four collections will be staged on the runway alongside the brand's custom designs.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 May 2023
• But when its waiting list drew hundreds, the pranksters decided to stage dinner — for one night only.
  — Yotam Ottolenghi, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
• Most church pageants are no longer staged, but the British Pageant — which tells the story of the faith’s first missionaries and converts in England — takes place every four years.
  — David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
• According to prosecutors, the suspects staged the scene to look like a robbery gone wrong.
  — Gabriella Demirdjian, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2024
• The appetizer, cleverly staged on the backs of empty shells, could be mistaken for a main course.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
• Women in Afghanistan staged rare protests against harsh Taliban restrictions.
  — Angela Charlton and Jade Le Deley, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024

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stage

3 of 3 adjective

• As his pre-stage prep, Michaels pops on his headphones and heads to the backstage stairs.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 16 June 2022
• The process of launching an R&D office is multi-stage and complex.
  — Dmitry Ovcharenko, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• This is the first mention of a multi-stage rocket in literature.
  — Joel Davis, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2019
• The lights will go on at different times theater by theater, even — in some multi-stage venues — room by room.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2021
• Mayor Dean Trantalis says the dredging project is just the start of a multi-phase, multi-stage plan to return the Tarpon River to its former state.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• To understand how multi-stage rockets work, think of them as a relay team running a race against the thickness of the Earth’s atmosphere and the pull of gravity.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• Dance Again offers the diversity and volume of a multi-stage festival without the hassle of sprinting across the grounds from set to set.
  — Krystal Rodriguez, Billboard, 27 May 2021
• The theater district will begin a multi-stage process of seeking approval for the new marquees from the City Planning Commission later this month.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
• His arrest is the first step in a multi-stage legal process to transfer the one-time crypto billionaire to U.S. custody, Fortune reported.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2022
• But longevity and the rise of the multi-stage life with multiple careers should be a huge green field opportunity for universities.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• When Americans learn about Congress in civics classes, they’re taught that passing legislation can be a lengthy, multi-stage process.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2020
• Gilmer says the Symphony hopes to use the park’s various spaces for free entertainment for locals, multi-stage festivals and more.
  — Billboard, 9 Aug. 2021
• But these days, many ductless systems feature a multi-stage filtration process that gets to work immediately reducing dust, pollen, and allergens in the air.
  — Doctor Fix-It, The Denver Post, 14 July 2020
• The venue in question is Elsewhere, located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg, so chosen for its capacity to support a multi-stage arrangement.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 4 May 2021
• More complex home heating and cooling systems — such as multi-stage boilers and heat pumps or dual-fuel systems — may require a more advanced smart thermostat that supports a wider range of heating types.
  — Natasha Stokes, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2020
• Out, the Australasian touring colossus whose multi-stage, single-day format became the template for alternative rock festivals across a generation, has died at the age of 64.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 7 Apr. 2022
• The bacterium has an interesting multi-stage life history.
  — Douglas Main, Discover Magazine, 2 Nov. 2011
• The Lilly drug showed promise in slowing cognitive and functional decline in patients in a small, mid-stage clinical study, and larger studies are under way to confirm its safety and efficacy.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 3 May 2022
• The Dixie Fire Collaborative has embarked on a multi-stage process to gather community input and create an architectural plan for the downtown.
  — Amy Hubbard, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2022
• Thousands of ticketholders also are expected at a multi-stage outdoor music event beneath a canopy light show at a downtown casino pedestrian mall called the Fremont Street Experience.
  — Ken Ritter, ajc, 29 Dec. 2021
• This extends to correlative analysis, which our platform automates, failure analysis, and multi-stage inspection on the line.
  — Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• The challenge is acute because threat actors have become more innovative, successfully employing multi-stage attacks in structured campaigns.
  — Gidi Cohen, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• The solid rear axle is paired with an independent front suspension with coil springs and optional multi-stage Bilstein dampers engineered to deliver extreme off-road capabilities and composed and comfortable on-road ride quality.
  — Karl Brauer, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• At a time when multi-stage cyberattacks exploit real-world exposures rather than theoretical high-severity network issues, a security posture based on severity scoring is simply unwise.
  — Gidi Cohen, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• As his pre-stage prep, Michaels pops on his headphones and heads to the backstage stairs.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 16 June 2022
• The process of launching an R&D office is multi-stage and complex.
  — Dmitry Ovcharenko, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• This is the first mention of a multi-stage rocket in literature.
  — Joel Davis, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2019
• The lights will go on at different times theater by theater, even — in some multi-stage venues — room by room.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2021
• Mayor Dean Trantalis says the dredging project is just the start of a multi-phase, multi-stage plan to return the Tarpon River to its former state.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• To understand how multi-stage rockets work, think of them as a relay team running a race against the thickness of the Earth’s atmosphere and the pull of gravity.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024