Example sentences for: upstaged

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

  • Clashes over human rights upstaged collaboration on other matters.

  • This film adaptation of the popular computer game is deemed "so cheesy it could be served on crackers" (Renee Graham, the Boston Globe ). Freddie Prinze Jr. and Matthew Lillard (who is "upstaged by his hair ," according to Entertainment Weekly 's Owen Gleiberman) star as two young fighter pilots in the year 2564.

  • Ranking Democrat John Glenn, D-Ohio, indirectly accused Thompson of McCarthyism and upstaged him by announcing an offer from John Huang to testify in exchange for partial immunity.

  • However, being upstaged isn't quite the same as being annihilated, and it certainly isn't anything like war.

  • In Independence Day his wife went down in a helicopter and he got upstaged by the more manly Will Smith.


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