How to Use stage in a Sentence

stage

1 of 3 noun

• He was on stage for the entire show.
• The actors walked out onto the stage.
• The company wants to compete on the world stage.
• He has no intention of leaving the political stage.
• The booth, of course, served as his stage.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 4 May 2026
• North to the main stage where the big screen is.
  — Kansas City Star, 12 June 2026
• That set the stage for Stafford.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
• The stage was ripe for nerves, at the very least.
  — Gabriel Burns, AJC.com, 30 Apr. 2026
• Well, kind of — just swap the stage for the page!
  — Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 8 Jan. 2026
• The Largo’s stage would be too small.
  — Lauren Rothery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• What stage is it, and what does that mean for me?
  — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 15 June 2026
• This tour marks the first time these three acts have shared a stage.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 31 May 2023
• Vibe coding is not at that stage.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Punk came out to the top of the stage and looked over the crowd.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
• There are no video screens on the stage, there’s no this or that.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Mar. 2026
• To adapt the show for the stage, many new songs had to be added.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 5 Apr. 2026
• Radcliffe knows his way around a stage.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 May 2026
• What time will each band go on, and how many stages will there be?
  — Finch Walker, USA Today, 4 July 2026
• And the preacher pranced around the stage.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
• That is often the next stage of the scam.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 June 2026
• Yungblud can’t get enough of the stage.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2025
• The stage itself feels more grown.
  — Billboard Korea, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2025
• The launch will use a new first-stage booster.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2026
• The launch will use a new first-stage booster.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
• The launch will use a new first-stage booster.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2026
• The launch will use a new first-stage booster.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
• The launch will use a new first-stage booster.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Feb. 2026
• The launch will use a new first-stage booster.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2026
• No writer is on board to adapt at this stage.
  — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 5 Nov. 2025
• The first-stage booster made its first flight.
  — Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Mar. 2026

stage

2 of 3 verb

• The students staged a protest.
• The school stages two plays each year.
• The school is staging a track meet.
• The prisoners are staging a hunger strike.
• His career as a singer appeared to be over, but then he staged a comeback.
• The photograph of the two leaders shaking hands was deliberately staged.
• What type of movie could be staged here?
  — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2026
• Some of them were staged by Woolf.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
• Trump wants to stage a blood sport on the same ground.
  — Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
• The best part is this is only the group stages.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 23 June 2026
• Weapons clash and staged fights get intense.
  — Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 27 May 2026
• Fashion, in this sense, does not stage strength.
  — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 10 Feb. 2026
• The fight was staged to promote a bout but went awry.
  — Indianapolis Star, IndyStar, 19 Sep. 2025
• This run-in all seems too pat, too staged, too likely.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 12 Sep. 2025
• In 2025, it was staged 36 times.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2026
• Markets then staged a rally over the past two days.
  — Lim Hui Jie,anniek Bao,chloe Taylor, CNBC, 2 Apr. 2026
• Diebel came to believe the burglary scene was staged.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2025
• What does normal life mean in this context—can it be staged?
  — Hanlu Zhang, Artforum, 10 Mar. 2026
• Dozens of protests were staged in smaller towns and villages as well.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2024
• Turns out, there are no rules to staging the perfect fall porch decor.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Sep. 2025
• Turns out, there are no rules to staging the perfect fall porch decor.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Sep. 2025
• Supporters don’t want staged videos or glossy brochures.
  — Yuriy Boyechko, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Her disease did move to stage 3—but not for almost a decade.
  — Tara Haelle, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
• Caterers would have more than enough space to stage food while going in and out of the house.
  — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 27 Apr. 2026
• This just may be the single finest scene Gray has ever staged.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 16 May 2026
• Paris had the fine idea to stage its ceremonies along the Seine.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 6 Feb. 2026
• This just might be the single finest scene Gray ever has staged.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 17 May 2026
• The group plans to stage more protests throughout the World Cup.
  — Eduard Cauich, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2026
• Be open to staging if your pattern is not stable.
  — Maria Williams, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
• Wembley has never staged a game quite like this one.
  — Dean Jones, New York Times, 23 May 2026

stage

3 of 3 adjective

• As his pre-stage prep, Michaels pops on his headphones and heads to the backstage stairs.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 16 June 2022
• The lights will go on at different times theater by theater, even — in some multi-stage venues — room by room.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2021
• This is the first mention of a multi-stage rocket in literature.
  — Joel Davis, Discover Magazine, 7 June 2019
• The upcoming spin is the first step in Honeywell’s multi-stage breakup plan.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 17 Oct. 2025
• The process of launching an R&D office is multi-stage and complex.
  — Dmitry Ovcharenko, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• Strong antivirus software can block phishing pages even after a click, which matters in multi-stage attacks like this one.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026
• Case 3 captured waste heat from multi-stage compressors and the ammonia product stream.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
• Drew’s project was selected from an applicant pool following a multi-stage review process.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 6 July 2026
• The team developed a multi-stage encapsulation process to protect the device and the eye.
  — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
• Its multi-stage approach tackles sediment, chlorine and heavy metals.
  — Ryan Brennan may 26, Miami Herald, 26 May 2026
• It’s distinguished by its ability to work in the background, execute tasks, and run multi-stage operations on its own.
  — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 9 June 2026
• The regulator will then conduct a multi-stage safety assessment.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Mar. 2026
• But longevity and the rise of the multi-stage life with multiple careers should be a huge green field opportunity for universities.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2021
• Dance Again offers the diversity and volume of a multi-stage festival without the hassle of sprinting across the grounds from set to set.
  — Krystal Rodriguez, Billboard, 27 May 2021
• Diggins just won her third Tour de Ski, the multi-stage race that always ends in Val di Fiemme, where the cross-country races will take place.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2026
• When Americans learn about Congress in civics classes, they’re taught that passing legislation can be a lengthy, multi-stage process.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 Dec. 2020
• To understand how multi-stage rockets work, think of them as a relay team running a race against the thickness of the Earth’s atmosphere and the pull of gravity.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• The electrical system has a shore power hookup, multi-stage 120-V converter and solar prewiring.
  — C.c. Weiss may 15, New Atlas, 15 May 2026
• Gilmer says the Symphony hopes to use the park’s various spaces for free entertainment for locals, multi-stage festivals and more.
  — Billboard, 9 Aug. 2021
• But these days, many ductless systems feature a multi-stage filtration process that gets to work immediately reducing dust, pollen, and allergens in the air.
  — Doctor Fix-It, The Denver Post, 14 July 2020
• The multi-stage format of Asian World Cup qualifying makes choosing a substitute nation on merit tricky.
  — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
• The design also allowed multiple drones to perform multi-stage tool-switching sequences while hovering in close proximity.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Oct. 2025
• The theater district will begin a multi-stage process of seeking approval for the new marquees from the City Planning Commission later this month.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 2 Oct. 2022
• More complex home heating and cooling systems — such as multi-stage boilers and heat pumps or dual-fuel systems — may require a more advanced smart thermostat that supports a wider range of heating types.
  — Natasha Stokes, NBC News, 30 Mar. 2020
• Mayor Dean Trantalis says the dredging project is just the start of a multi-phase, multi-stage plan to return the Tarpon River to its former state.
  — Susannah Bryan, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Oct. 2020
• Systems range from simple carbon filters to multi-stage setups with UV purification and prices swing from a couple hundred dollars to well over a thousand.
  — Ryan Brennan may 26, Miami Herald, 26 May 2026
• This extends to correlative analysis, which our platform automates, failure analysis, and multi-stage inspection on the line.
  — Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2021
• This approach, the team says, gives robots the ability to undertake more complex multi-stage tasks, bringing agentic capabilities to robotics.
  — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 25 Sep. 2025
• The challenge is acute because threat actors have become more innovative, successfully employing multi-stage attacks in structured campaigns.
  — Gidi Cohen, Forbes, 17 June 2021
• Their system includes a metal roof for collection, a 26,000-gallon underground cistern, and a multi-stage water treatment process.
  — Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 2 Mar. 2026