Example sentences for: backstage

How can you use “backstage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Stuever in the Washington Post has a dishy piece on the Kennedy Center Honors, backstage, if you will.

  • Most critics report mixed reactions: "[T]his handsome, airtight meditation on art, celebrity, love, and rampant repertory-group horniness indulges in a lot of very American navel gazing" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Janet Maslin gives the film its most upbeat review, calling it an "enormously fond homage to the world of acting, beguilingly presented and filled with knowing backstage humor" (the New York Times ). Two stars get special note for their performances: Christopher Walken as a flamboyantly foppish critic and Susan Sarandon as an aging but still dynamite diva.

  • She punched Kathleen Hanna of the riot grrrl band Bikini Kill backstage at Lollapalooza, and referred to her as "ratface."

  • The Post paints a backstage picture in which anxious aides fear that the president is not widely believed.

  • Arrayed on dummies, the Versaces have the air of waiting backstage for their entrance music.


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