How to Use staging ground in a Sentence

staging ground

noun
  • What these shows all shared was a sense of the hearth as the staging ground for mild pranks and cute, low-stakes antics.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 1 June 2025
  • The staging ground for their relationship squabbles has grown from a petri dish to the cosmos.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The headquarters and its factory gates were the frequent staging ground for protests.
    — Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Oil still drives a boom-and-bust economy, making the state a kind of war profiteer and a staging ground for climate change.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • Forty-two years later, that same spot serves as the staging ground for construction crews building the border wall in this valley.
    — Ed Lavandera and Ashley Killough, CNN, 23 Dec. 2020
  • In return, Lukashenko allowed Belarus to be used as a staging ground for the war in Ukraine.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
  • Reddit, the company that was the staging ground for the revolt of amateur traders, also did well.
    — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2022
  • Russian troops have used the town as a staging ground for operations in the east since seizing control of it in May.
    — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
  • Analysts say the region is a staging ground and logistics hub for the incursion.
    — Illia Novikov and Emma Burrows, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The move made southern Turkish towns staging grounds for the opposition.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The shooting took place near a park in Portland that has been the staging ground for a number of protests against police killings in recent years.
    — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2022
  • Russia is using Belarus as a staging ground for troop movements into Ukraine.
    — Raf Casert and Sam Petrequin, ajc, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Russia has been accused of using the plant, which is still functioning and producing power, as a staging ground for war.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Russia took control of it in the opening days of the war in the apparent hope of using it as a staging ground for an assault on Odesa.
    — Francesca Ebel, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2022
  • Russia could use Crimea’s ports to block Ukrainian trade, for example, or as a staging ground for future conflict.
    — Adam Taylor, Júlia Ledur, Francesca Ebel and Mary Ilyushina, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Belarus was a staging ground for Russian troops to launch their invasion of Ukraine a little over 13 months ago.
    — Yuras Karmanau, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
  • His efforts came even as the country became a staging ground for the invasion of Ukraine in February.
    — Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Now, Necoclí, a small Colombian tourist town just at the mouth of the passage, has become a staging ground for migrants hoping to cross.
    — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Kyiv has warned Transnistria, which lies on Ukraine’s western border, could be the staging ground for a Russian attack.
    — Robert Hart, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Revolver grew a fast following thanks in part to the excitement around a number of the chefs who used it as a staging ground to preview their own upcoming restaurants.
    — Mark Kurlyandchik, Detroit Free Press, 1 Oct. 2020
  • And the Great Salt Lake isn’t the only saline lake in the West providing this critical avian staging ground.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
  • After seizing the city early in the war, Moscow used it as a staging ground for operations across southern Ukraine.
    — New York Times, 31 May 2022
  • Just across the border from an Israeli radar tower, it has been used as a staging ground for Hezbollah’s attacks against Israel.
    — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The Great Salt Lake alone serves as a nesting and staging ground for more than 10 million migratory birds each year.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The latter island became a major staging ground for the planned Allied invasion of Japan itself.
    — Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2017
  • Crimea was a key staging ground when President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago.
    — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Control over the city would isolate Russian forces to the south in Izyum, which Moscow had sought to use as a staging ground for its own offensive.
    — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Belarus was a staging ground for amassing Russian troops before the invasion of Ukraine a little over 13 months ago.
    — Yuras Karmanau, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Read full article Belarus was a staging ground for Russian troops to launch their invasion of Ukraine a little over 13 months ago.
    — Yuras Karmanau, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Russian forces used Belarus as a staging ground for their invasion of Ukraine, but no Belarussian troops have crossed the border into Ukraine.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 26 June 2022

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