How to Use stage-manage in a Sentence

stage-manage

verb

• Daniel uses it to threaten the operatives, recover the backpack, and stage-manage their escape.
  — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 16 June 2026
• Even if the call to redistrict was legit, DeSantis clearly stage-managed the process to keep it on ice as possible.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 May 2026
• What there will not be — if those stage-managing this celebration have their way — is an honest accounting of the history being celebrated.
  — Otis Moss Iii, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
• Bush was in constant contact with Mikhail Gorbachev to stage-manage the structured collapse of the Soviet empire.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 27 Apr. 2026
• For three days, it is packed with career-defining sets for some of the most important, influential and up-and-coming artists in the world, exquisitely choreographed, stage-managed and filmed, and broadcast all over the globe.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 13 Apr. 2026