offstage
Example Sentences
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Tsuruko, the eldest, stays largely offstage but exerts a crucial, conservative influence on family affairs.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 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
Cooper wanted to capture what goes on offstage as well as on, and a significant part of that happened around a particular table at the Olive Tree Cafe, which sits above the underground comedy club.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2025
In Suntory, there was no room for the offstage brass to be anywhere but offstage.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2025
She had genuinely started to believe that if people could see her onstage as Charlotte, maybe they would see that she was a girl offstage too.
From "George" by Alex Gino
Vocabulary lists containing offstage
Reading: Literature - Drama - Introductory
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Theater - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Drama - Middle School
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