How to Use onstage in a Sentence

onstage

adverb or adjective

• That rhetoric hasn’t stayed onstage.
  — Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 22 Sep. 2025
• Bob was one of the few guests Phish has had onstage.
  — Alison Weinflash, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2026
• Pillsbury stayed onstage and brought the crowd to their feet.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2025
• It’s not known if other artists will join him onstage.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 7 Feb. 2026
• Jordan, in the male form, then goes onstage.
  — Olivia Singh, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• At last Sun Ra sashayed onstage.
  — Literary Hub, 13 Feb. 2026
• Denim was present onstage as well.
  — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 20 Apr. 2026
• Normand’s drive does not stop onstage.
  — Ali Lerman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
• He was spotted in the crowd — and even onstage — at many of her shows the next year.
  — Rachel Treisman, NPR, 3 July 2026
• But Top is due to walk onstage — now with a head full of drama.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 1 Aug. 2025
• Keke Palmer then joined him onstage as the song picked up the tempo.
  — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2024
• And Schultz was toasting the friends his band made along the way onstage.
  — Ramon Ramirez, Austin American Statesman, 17 Mar. 2026
• And the sketches have been done in other sketch shows onstage, live.
  — Deputy Entertainment, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
• Something that never seems to go out of style onstage is putting a man in a dress.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Mar. 2021
• Willy drives it onstage through a giant door at the start and ends his life therein.
  — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 10 Apr. 2026
• That said, there’s a lot of moving props around onstage between scenes.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2023
• They were directly tied to the works onstage.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2026
• Back in 1981, the band was still all the way on, at least onstage.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 8 Apr. 2021
• But the quiet broke late in the evening when a woman with a mane of red curls walked onstage.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
• The founders were thrilled with their company’s work onstage.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 17 Dec. 2021
• The funny thing for me is, a lot of my learning comes from being onstage.
  — Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2021
• And to see the fans jumping up onstage and having fun, that’s a real hoot.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Mar. 2025
• For a good part of the show, the action takes place with the four leads onstage confined to a lifeboat.
  — Adam Bell, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
• Kweli and Bey were joined onstage by Madlib for the hard-hitting tracks.
  — Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2022
• After her death, Smith was shocked at how little sound there was onstage.
  — Alex Abramovich, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
• That day, Colbert wasn’t onstage.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 29 May 2026
• Lee had urged fans to come onstage, and the 18-year-old guard was trying to hold them back.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• Just before the young singer went onstage, Hope asked him what his real name was.
  — Matt Schudel, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• Yet the prospect of Sphere’s visual splendor lured the group back onstage.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2024
• At the time, Jackson couldn't help the laugh that escaped him onstage.
  — Julia Moore, People.com, 11 Oct. 2024