offstage

Example Sentences

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Thoughtful and easygoing offstage, Peaches’ seemingly rebellious onstage shenanigans are hardly a reaction to her upbringing.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2026

Then, he satirizes conservatives’ discomfort with his Blackness by sitting silently as Martin Short, playing a nervous young Republican delivering a hackneyed diatribe, shudders in his presence before scampering offstage to fall apart.

From Salon • Feb. 22, 2026

We’re not shielded from the horrors, but they almost always happen offstage, implied or alluded to in the sudden vanishing of a loved one or a mournful reference to a death.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

Comedians will also tell you this, there are just certain spots where you walk offstage and go, people should film specials here.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

A single slow clap pattered offstage; the drama club director, overwhelmed with feels, applauded.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles