upstage in English

adverb
1
at or toward the back of a theater stage.
Hamlet turns to face upstage
verb
1
divert attention from (someone) toward oneself; outshine.
they were totally upstaged by their costar in the film

Use "upstage" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "upstage" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "upstage", or refer to the context using the word "upstage" in the English Dictionary.

1. Position a camera upstage.

2. He was upstage with strangers.

3. The actor moved upstage away from the audience.

4. The dancers were directed to move upstage.

5. He looks upstage to where the body is lying.

6. They slowly moved from upstage left into the centre.

7. He tried to upstage his boss at the meeting.

8. Upstage and right of centre, Robert Morris stands with his back to the audience.

9. For example(http://Sentencedict.com), a bassist who stands upstage left and sings as well.

10. Chicago will probably never upstage New York as the hub for America's investment banking talent.

11. The lid opened upstage so all the sound was thrown up the back wall.

12. Apple may well upstage all of them by announcing its own tablet - like device in January.

13. She crossed to the upstage chair forcing the lead to turn his back to the audience.

14. Graham relished the opportunity to upstage Chelsea and found in the talented Russell the width to dominate the game from midfield.

15. 3: Both figures looked upstage at the model of a white statue which pointed down at them with the Accusing finger of an Italian traffic policeman or wartime recruiting poster

16. Throughout the “Apeshit” video, Beyoncé and Jay-Z repeatedly upstage some of Western classical art’s most famous images in one of its central sacred spaces

17. Amphitheatre Dimensions: The stage is approximately 71 feet wide at the upstage wall, 93 feet at the downstage edge, 50 feet long from the rocks to the apron, and the apron at its deepest

18. August 16 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk: It was a Cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off

19. Appoggiatura at Indiana Repertory Theatre, A Seat on the Aisle Grace notes of grief and healing: Appoggiatura completes IRT's mounting of a James Still trilogy , Jay Harvey Upstage Appoggiatura Explores Love and Grief in Venice at the Indiana Repertory Theatre , Broadway World, Melissa Hall

20. The name itself is a witty rejoinder: The founders wanted something fun and clever to upstage that mewling sob-fest called the Renaissance Weekend, held to polite applause every New Year's weekend in Hilton Head, South Carolina, starring the Clintons and a thousand other Third Way Bubbleheads.Dark Ages, by contrast, promised cigars, strong drink, Robert Bork, and lots of warm Phoenix weather.