How to Use stage set in a Sentence

stage set

noun
Definition of stage setnext
  • Fog seeps over the top, like it’s been pumped in from a stage set for Macbeth.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
  • Its cargo, a state-of-the-art audio and video stage set.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The stage set and background evoked a patinaed juke joint.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 6 Sep. 2021
  • And the backdrops, in places, are more stage set than nature scene.
    — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • The rehearsal takes place on a stage set that resembles a night club, with tables and a bar.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2022
  • When not in the spotlight, group members sat on chairs or a couch that made up a living-room-style stage set.
    — Susie Schmank, Indianapolis Star, 12 Feb. 2018
  • The weird thing about the stage set is Ringo’s [precarious] drum rostrum.
    — Lucie Young, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Air treats the city as a stage set, a backdrop for the razzle-dazzle on offer indoors.
    — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Adults sitting on wooden bleachers arrayed around the bright yellow-and-green truck that is the stage set groaned and grinned.
    — Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • The vibe: First impressions are everything, and Out of Office is a stage set for date night.
    — Fritz Hahn, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
  • No, really — the stage set for the singer's performance featured a garbage can.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Up next: a summer U.S. tour with his most elaborate stage set.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Like plays, these were self-contained stories performed live on stage sets.
    — Adam Wilson, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
  • Park Slope looks as picturesque as a stage set: a quality that’s easy to miss in real life, when you’re being shoved and yelled at in the food coop.
    — Liana Finck, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2020
  • No costumes, no stage set, no smoke and mirrors, no audience of course.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2024
  • The song soon swelled to a stomping rocker as the five-piece rock band built out a multilayered melody in front of a stage set with glowing orbs.
    — Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2022
  • But Harry Potter won’t vacate for Alvin Ailey, take away its stage set, and then come back.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Quickly sketched in pale hues, the buildings are very nearly a theatrical stage set.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
  • The fair was like a stage set, an illusion that vanishes when the curtain descends.
    — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The Meadows will license its great collection to the Dallas Opera, which will design its stage sets around it.
    — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 23 Nov. 2019
  • All that gives it away as a stage set for a ballet is a pair of pink ballet slippers visible between the horse’s front legs.
    — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The ambiguous drama makes the pictured room, with its open window and map on the wall, feel like an arbitrary stage set.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Her foster mother, a drama teacher, let Alyssa help build stage sets at school.
    — Allie Morris, San Antonio Express-News, 25 Mar. 2018
  • Most of Hoberman’s early achievements — the toy-building, a stage set for U2, and a host of other projects — were largely solo gigs.
    — Stephen Ornes, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2020
  • With an overwhelming stage set-up, Excision has become one of the hottest tickets in live EDM.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Even with Omicron looming over all of us, Bellinger is excited to safely give things a try and bring a whole new stage set with a live band in tow to his fan base.
    — Rivea Ruff, Essence, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Gomez began in a white dress in front of a busted car on a smoky stage set in the woods, before backing vocalists emerged from behind the trees to sway and dance with her.
    — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2017
  • The backdrop of books and photographs hangs behind him like stage set in a play about an aging novelist.
    — Ryan D'agostino, Town & Country, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The work features a stage set designed by visual artists Ari Marcopoulos and Kara Walker.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2019
  • The men admitted to throwing smoke bombs at a line of police trying to keep the mob from the stage set up for Biden's inauguration.
    — Fox News, 9 Sep. 2022

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