How to Use staging post in a Sentence

staging post

noun
  • The Mukran port is a key staging post for ships involved in its construction.
    — Arkansas Online, 2020-09-06
  • But those are just staging posts—the physicist had his eye on the closest star system to ours, Alpha Centauri.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 2018-03-13
  • These wide-open spaces in the heart of the capital were the scene not only of army recruitment fairs and troop staging posts, but also for battle planning and barracks.
    — B.r., The Economist, 2019-11-22
  • The British awards are usually held a week or two before the Oscars and have become an important awards-season staging post.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2021-04-11
  • With its deep harbor and strategic location, Havana soon became the staging post for brutal missions of discovery.
    — Néstor Martí, Smithsonian, 2018-04-18
  • The launch of 5G iPhones is likely to be used as the staging post for a fresh wave of expansions and announcements from network operators.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 2020-10-13
  • The British awards are usually held a week or two before the Academy Awards and have become an important awards-season staging post.
    — Author: Jill Lawless, Anchorage Daily News, 2021-04-12
  • The port is a key staging post for ships involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that's intended to bring natural gas from Russia to Germany.
    — David Rising, Star Tribune, 2020-08-10
  • At least 70 world leaders are expected to attend, and they will be pushed to bring forward new NDCs and other policy commitments, as a staging post toward the Cop26 summit.
    — Fiona Harvey, Wired, 2020-12-26
  • There has been growing concerns that Belarus — a staunch backer of Moscow — could be used as a staging post to attack Ukraine from the north after increasing military activity in the country and fresh transfer of Russian troops there.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 2023-01-08

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