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
I walked offstage and I said to myself, “You don’t have to do it anymore.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 4, 2025
The final scene is a reprise of the beginning, showing Springsteen coming offstage after a show and expressing to his manager that it’s good to be back.
From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025
George stepped offstage and out of view of staring eyes.
From "George" by Alex Gino
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.