upstage

Example Sentences

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Instead, there is smoke and vivid use of light—in the most dramatic sequences, such as the fire, a wall-size blaze of color angles forward from a bank of instruments on the floor upstage.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

On the day of the event, she said, she and her friends weren’t there to provoke Kirk, or to upstage him.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2025

Stanton: There are hundreds of fireflies in the background, on the video screens, upstage and scattered throughout the house.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

To upstage the former president, who only recently faced an assassination attempt, is no small feat, said Mr Polyansky.

From BBC • Aug. 10, 2024

She would support Mark Antony in all he did without trying to control or upstage him.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby