How to Use stage right in a Sentence

stage right

noun
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  • At the Paramount, the kids and I line up, stage right, and the band files out.
    — Claire Dederer, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2022
  • At farthest stage right, there’s the back door of a house and a tiny patio.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The man disappeared stage right, and the gasps turned to chatter.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
  • With its couches and kitchens, its upstage stairs and stage right doors.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Enter at stage right *up my 22-year-old alley*: The Razr for my adult life.
    — Lily Jackson | Ljackson@al.com, al, 14 Nov. 2019
  • What looks like a giant tube enters stage right and sucks the embryo up and out of view.
    — refinery29.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • To stage right, a handful of dancers on stilts, members of the Agua, Sol y Serano troupe, stepped to the beat of Latin jazz.
    — Daniel Kool, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • In the video Travis posted, Landon is shown bobbing up and down on stage right by Pump's side.
    — Allison Stubblebine, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Winston, and girlfriend Jenn Lewis, were dancing the two-step, stage right.
    — CBS News, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Ruiz stood in the wings at stage left; Cullinan handled stage right.
    — James B. Meigs, Slate Magazine, 3 Mar. 2017
  • White took up De Shields’s familiar perch at stage right.
    — Sarah Bahr, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The end of the eulogy echoed its start: The gym double doors stage right swung open to reveal Kevin Sharp’s race car parked just outside.
    — USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2018
  • Mary stage right, Joseph stage left, with the Magi hovering near the proscenium.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • With a confident gait and no words, Martin exited stage right and ceded the next few bits to Short.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Is there an approach to this work that isn’t just moving the attic stove, a fixture of the libretto, from stage right to left to center?
    — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • My whole arsenal on stage right now is different styles of PRS.
    — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Guenevere rushes off, stage left; the knights exit, stage right; and, after a moment, men in black armor rush in with props.
    — Trish Deitch, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Reading the lyrics off his phone, he gamely tried to fit in vocal runs around Weir’s guitar rhythm before exiting stage right.
    — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Those talks appear to be in only preliminary stages right now.
    — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Jan. 2020
  • Enter, stage right, not only team coaching but coaching ToT!
    — Forbes, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Most people are betting that James exits his hometown, stage right, after tonight.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 June 2018
  • After a few hours of moderate to heavy snow, the storm exits stage right around 4 or 5 a.m., with impacts lingering through sunrise.
    — Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Enter 67-year-old Dean Spanos, stage left—which obviously means he was supposed to enter stage right.
    — Michael Rosenberg, SI.com, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Beck plays up the vaudeville approach of the show, with each scene comprising the next act, promoted by placards at stage right, some of which hold their own moments of clever humor.
    — Theodore P. Mahne, NOLA.com, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Walker exited stage right with 30 points and 17 rebounds.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Just before the end of the set Noguchi announced that the Japanese band Chai (who also performed at the fest) was in the house, and the members of that band then jubilantly danced to the music of their peers stage right.
    — Rob Schwartz, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2019
  • This includes the installation of guards around the stage perimeter, an insider added, as well as extra manpower in the wings, both stage right and left.
    — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The potential of the title might've actually come true, with (spoilers!) Eve shot in the back and Villanelle exiting stage right.
    — Katherine J Igoe, Marie Claire, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Limbaugh entered stage right just as Ronald Reagan was making his exit.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 8 Feb. 2020
  • Enter Shatner, stage right: Hundreds of retweets and replies later, nothing was settled.
    — Jeffrey Lee Puckett, The Courier-Journal, 14 Sep. 2017

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