Example sentences for: upstaged

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

  • The sexual charms of prospective customers were on no account to be upstaged by those of the model.

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

  • The impeachment of President Clinton was upstaged on Friday's front pages in Germany by the European Commission's dramatic survival of a parliamentary censure motion, in France by Germany's shock decision to end all production of nuclear energy, and in Italy by fraud in the Milan lottery; but in Britain it was reported with full pomp and circumstance.

  • The Chinese president also hopes Clinton's visit will bolster his own prestige as a statesman, "upstaged" by new Prime Minister Zhu Rongji's successful European tour.

  • Clashes over human rights upstaged collaboration on other matters.


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