How to Use onstage in a Sentence

onstage

adverb or adjective
  • That rhetoric hasn’t stayed onstage.
    — Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Bob was one of the few guests Phish has had onstage.
    — Alison Weinflash, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Pillsbury stayed onstage and brought the crowd to their feet.
    — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
  • It’s not known if other artists will join him onstage.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Jordan, in the male form, then goes onstage.
    — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • At last Sun Ra sashayed onstage.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Denim was present onstage as well.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Normand’s drive does not stop onstage.
    — Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
  • And Schultz was toasting the friends his band made along the way onstage.
    — Ramon Ramirez, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
  • And the sketches have been done in other sketch shows onstage, live.
    — Deputy Entertainment, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Willy drives it onstage through a giant door at the start and ends his life therein.
    — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • They were directly tied to the works onstage.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2026
  • But the quiet broke late in the evening when a woman with a mane of red curls walked onstage.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • For a good part of the show, the action takes place with the four leads onstage confined to a lifeboat.
    — Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
  • After her death, Smith was shocked at how little sound there was onstage.
    — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • That day, Colbert wasn’t onstage.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 May 2026
  • However, there was one song that Blue couldn’t be onstage for.
    — Juliana Ukiomogbe, InStyle, 22 June 2026
  • Moments later, that fan was onstage.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Plus Iggy pop, who adorably switched glasses onstage.
    — Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Janis Joplin used to come up onstage with us to improvise.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2025
  • When Gelb walked onstage, he was greeted with applause and also some boos.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
  • What still excites you today about being onstage?
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 6 Feb. 2026
  • And also be funny onstage but also be likable off-stage!
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Jonasi was served court papers while performing onstage.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Swift was alone onstage, strumming her acoustic guitar.
    — Joe Garcia, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Vance and Kirk have appeared onstage together in the past.
    — Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 15 Apr. 2026
  • How could the word be so magical when my dad used it onstage, and hurt so much when Louis said it at school?
    — Literary Hub, 17 June 2026
  • Arguably, not much happens onstage, in real-time.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Five volunteers join him onstage.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Anderson was back onstage for the night's final award — best picture.
    — ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026

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