[
UK
/ˈɒnsteɪdʒ/
]
[ US /ˌɑnˈsteɪdʒ/ ]
[ US /ˌɑnˈsteɪdʒ/ ]
ADVERB
-
on the stage
it was time for her to go onstage
ADJECTIVE
- situated or taking place on the area of a stage visible to the audience
How To Use onstage In A Sentence
- I looked up to see Brody onstage, his dishevelled dark brown hair flopping across his forehead and both hands hanging onto the microphone.
- The former calypso monarch is widely regarded as a superb showman, one of the best at extemporaneous renditions while onstage.
- An actor onstage walked over to the actress, which was not apart of the script, and touched her face as he spoke to her.
- I expect comics to come and be prepared and I expect them not to stand around chinwagging with each other while people are onstage working.
- Once onstage there was no way I could phonate on certain notes. Susanne Mentzer: The Unsingable
- Bikini-clad dancers writhe onstage at a swinger's club in their best '80s music-video impersonation.
- Later in the show the band invited members of the audience up onstage to jam with them.
- I have gone along with your idea and gone onstage wearing same, to be stripped off by a colonel. Times, Sunday Times
- The crowd diligently sang along, going through the paint-by-numbers motions with their onstage idols.
- The day of the show, we turned on the strobe lights and got ready onstage.