How to Use off camera in a Sentence

off camera

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  • The photos look glamorous but off camera, festivals can be a grind.
    — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 2 Sep. 2026
  • While filming, the actor would read the note out loud, off camera, so Williams had something to react to.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026
  • The Roots could be heard reacting off camera, with Gillis thanking them for getting the joke.
    — Shelby Stivale, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Aug. 2026
  • So many of the crew members made the trek to Altadena that night and huddled off camera to watch Prince perform.
    — Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 21 July 2026
  • The documentary includes an interview with the young man’s mother while he can be heard sobbing off camera.
    — Daniel Lachance, The Conversation, 21 Sep. 2026
  • When Cantu reaches towards Lopez and screams his wife’s name, a shot rings out and Lopez falls slightly off camera.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
  • After an audition off camera, the finalists were asked to come out on the sidewalk for an on-camera interview.
    — Thomas Doherty, HollywoodReporter, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Manning said, smiling and then pointing at someone off camera in solidarity with the joke.
    — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • When Bening, as Rob-Will’s mother, arrived late on the scene, Lind couldn’t keep it together off camera.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2026
  • The Hitchcockian plot captivates from the get-go as a sort-of writer talks to someone off camera about his obsession for shadowing strangers.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 14 July 2026
  • The actor recalled an instance in which Nicholson made funny faces at Cruise off camera while the younger actor was delivering his lines.
    — Emlyn Travis, Entertainment Weekly, 29 June 2026
  • In Oak Street, almost an entire neighborhood is killed off, largely off camera, but the film never shies from showing the resulting carnage littering the streets.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Later in the trailer, Kardashian is shown lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to machines, while someone off camera asks whether that is what her father, Robert Kardashian, died of.
    — Rebecca Cohen, NBC news, 18 Sep. 2026
  • The central midfielder appeared to sarcastically applaud supporters, before repeating the actions of pointing to the sky and then making an eye-pointing gesture towards the section of the stand, off camera, from where the chant appears to emanate.
    — Dan Sheldon, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Here are key takeaways The victim was participating in but off camera during a campaign commercial for Fresno County Superior Court judge candidate Ashley Paulson when he was stabbed, law officials said in a Friday news conference.
    — Bob Rodriguez, Sacbee.com, 22 Aug. 2026
  • The latest season of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives picks up after the women of MomTok experienced an explosive last few months off camera, following the drama and scandal that largely surrounded the group’s once-leader, Taylor Frankie Paul.
    — Tabitha Parent, PEOPLE, 10 Sep. 2026

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