upstage

Example Sentences

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“His headstone is so flashy — like, it’s totally upstaging Johnny and June. It’s so Nashville, I love it.”

From Los Angeles Times

They’re entertaining, for one, having long settled into roles that feed their public profiles and public relations: She’s the money-grubbing dominatrix while he alternately cowers, begs for her attention and upstages her.

From New York Times

As they turned their focus from a makeshift cardboard contraption to a screen positioned upstage, Schwartz called out: “We’re suspending reality in making the photograph immediately show up on the projection screen.”

From New York Times

The offer further underscores Russia’s growing interest in the African continent upstaging the west in countries facing conflict.

From Washington Times

The problem that threatens Aditi’s marriage — she is not yet over her affair with a married man — is recessed so far it essentially disappears upstage, depriving the crisis of serious tension.

From New York Times