How to Use stage set in a Sentence

stage set

noun
  • Boats glide by like floating stage sets, draped in lights.
    — Stacy Conde, Midwest Living, 30 Dec. 2025
  • And the backdrops, in places, are more stage set than nature scene.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • The restaurants most talked about are those that present themselves as full stage sets.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Fog seeps over the top, like it’s been pumped in from a stage set for Macbeth.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
  • The rehearsal takes place on a stage set that resembles a night club, with tables and a bar.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022
  • When not in the spotlight, group members sat on chairs or a couch that made up a living-room-style stage set.
    — Susie Schmank, Indianapolis Star, 12 Feb. 2018
  • All of it—the grand buildings, the wave upon wave of stone steps—was like a stage set for becoming.
    — Hilton Als, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • In front is a stage set that is a little hard to visually interpret.
    — Jaron Lanier, WIRED, 10 Dec. 2024
  • This act turned diners into spectators within a stage set where the chef is the star.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Air treats the city as a stage set, a backdrop for the razzle-dazzle on offer indoors.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Tourism should be a bridge into Caymanian life, not a stage set in front of it.
    — Baz Dreisinger, Forbes.com, 21 June 2026
  • The stage set can be perfect, but that won’t stop the people from fitting jaggedly within it.
    — Daisy Rockwell, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Quickly sketched in pale hues, the buildings are very nearly a theatrical stage set.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
  • Her foster mother, a drama teacher, let Alyssa help build stage sets at school.
    — Allie Morris, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Models walked through a stage set to mirror a home, each carrying a piece to add to the faux living room.
    — Anika Reed, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
  • No, really — the stage set for the singer's performance featured a garbage can.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • The weird thing about the stage set is Ringo’s [precarious] drum rostrum.
    — Lucie Young, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • This year's schedule lists only three main-stage sets with sign language interpreters.
    — Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 23 Feb. 2025
  • The speech was screened across the back of a stage set up for panels later in the day, and the room was sparsely occupied.
    — Caitlín Doherty, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The fair was like a stage set, an illusion that vanishes when the curtain descends.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Adults sitting on wooden bleachers arrayed around the bright yellow-and-green truck that is the stage set groaned and grinned.
    — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The stage set is ginormous — the orchestra is way up on spinning towers.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Cactus Jack artists are known for doing big visuals, from stage sets to music videos.
    — Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 26 Feb. 2026
  • For each, the gallery is a stage set, its proportions rationalized by Goulds.
    — Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • All that gives it away as a stage set for a ballet is a pair of pink ballet slippers visible between the horse’s front legs.
    — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The song soon swelled to a stomping rocker as the five-piece rock band built out a multilayered melody in front of a stage set with glowing orbs.
    — Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2022
  • Her stage set involved a dazzling staircase — but that beautiful piece of set design tripped her up on a nightly basis.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
  • On Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings, live bands played on an outdoor stage set up on the lawn.
    — Jan Wagner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2025
  • But Harry Potter won’t vacate for Alvin Ailey, take away its stage set, and then come back.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Among a minimal stage set-up and ever-present blue lighting, White ensured that this was a show where the music would speak for itself.
    — Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Apr. 2025

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