How to Use stagehand in a Sentence

stagehand

noun
  • Thus cued the stagehand who emerged to the right wing of the stage, mop in hand.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 18 Nov. 2023
  • Better to have left the curtain up and revealed the stagehands at work.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Kahan stayed in the spotlight as a stagehand brought him a guitar.
    — Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
  • If stagehands were busy or there were rehearsals going on, forget about it.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2018
  • This was a financial boon for a band that was paying many unionized stagehands.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 28 July 2019
  • If the kitchen is a culinary theater, then the cabinets are the stagehands.
    — Kelly Dawson, House Beautiful, 1 Aug. 2019
  • One video, said to be taken from the crowd at the venue, a stagehand kicked a squirrel who had made its way onto the stage.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 9 June 2022
  • At one point, stagehands wheeled a bar on stage with an ice chest full of beer on top to complete the party atmosphere.
    — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2024
  • An extra intermission was called, so stagehands could run out with towels to dry things off.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 31 July 2024
  • The spry assistance of stagehands, who not only move set pieces but help flesh out the world of the play, is a jaunty touch.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2025
  • As much can be said of the scene-changing entr’acte these mock stagehands stage during the intermission.
    — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Two stagehands were smoothing the surface with bladed scrapers.
    — Bob Morris, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The taller, deeper stage will attract bigger acts and let stagehands perform quicker changeovers.
    — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2019
  • Four officials in dark uniforms come to retrieve him, like stagehands fetching scenery.
    — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 12 July 2023
  • My dad was a stagehand in television and a theatrical stagehand.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 5 Sep. 2024
  • The crowd springs to its feet, the stagehand gives a go-sign, and Harris rushes forward, into the light.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 11 Oct. 2024
  • There is one chair, then stagehands quietly bring him another, and then a third at different points in the play.
    — Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 12 May 2026
  • The city and the company agreed to hire nine union employees — eight stagehands and one foreman — for the three-day concert.
    — Maria Cramer, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2019
  • And stagehands have pulled an audience member onstage to hold up a mantelpiece that keeps falling off the set.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2017
  • My way of allocating stagehands to a load-out was to write the names down on Post-its, like sticky white things, and put them on their shirts.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Some people are expected to rush or wait for others, like stagehands running around in the background so the real show can go on.
    — Hazlitt, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The closures will cost an untold tens of millions of dollars and put actors, stagehands, ushers, and many others out of a job.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Back in the early 1990s, Scobie and his wife worked at the Palace as stagehands.
    — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The wait looked to be about 2-1/2 hours, according to a venue stagehand, a graybeard in a black T-shirt.
    — Jerry Beilinson, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2014
  • My buddy John and I were asked to be stagehands – the only seventh graders in an eighth grade production.
    — Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Each death brings me back to the stage, for a conversation with the director or a stagehand, a glimpse into a world behind the curtain.
    — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 7 June 2019
  • Marty Burnett’s tongue-in-cheek scenic design has two large cabinet walls with pop-open panels for stagehands to pass props through.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
  • Because many early stagehands had maritime backgrounds, the idea may have carried into the theater, but in reverse.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
  • The sky and sea are colored swaths of cotton stretched out on simple frames, the waves the effect of two stagehands manipulating the fabric.
    — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Now era long, straight hair, sits up as the pastoral scene is literally pulled apart by stagehands, revealed as nothing more than show business trickery.
    — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025

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