offstage
not in view of the audience; backstage, in the wings, etc.: an offstage crash.
withheld from public view or attention; private: offstage political meetings.
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How to use offstage in a sentence
The curious offstage character is the playwright, who was in college in New York at the time of his mother’s ordeal.
Though few of these former Facebook employees have spoken as publicly and potently as Haugen has, many have sat just offstage for months, sometimes years, roiling over what they saw while working at Facebook.
Like whistleblower Frances Haugen, these Facebook employees warned about the company’s problems for years. No one listened. | Elizabeth Dwoskin, Craig Timberg | October 8, 2021 | Washington PostMiranda had stayed offstage when he put together his campus production of In the Heights at Wesleyan, but in 2002, Kail suggested he might as well play supporting character Usnavi.
How In the Heights went from a student musical to one of the summer’s biggest movies | Constance Grady | June 11, 2021 | VoxI look in the wings offstage, and Rip Taylor is laughing his ass off.
Ethiopia Habtemariam, the president of Motown Records, has spent the past year assisting her artists in navigating the painful reality of life offstage while retooling album-release plans.
Motown President Ethiopia Habtemariam on Steering the Legendary Label Through the Pandemic | Eben Shapiro | February 7, 2021 | Time
He needed his art because, offstage, the chaos was sometimes too much.
How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America | David Yaffe, Scott Saul | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAll these folks were full of gripping stories about their time with Pryor, since he created much drama offstage as well as on.
How Richard Pryor Beat Bill Cosby and Transformed America | David Yaffe, Scott Saul | December 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd they never break character, even offstage—at least in front of the press.
In the Backseat With Janelle Monae: A Limo Ride with the Stylish R&B Diva | Douglas Wolk | April 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe agents of their slide were many, and they operated offstage.
The End of Us And Them: David Cannadine’s Quest to Unite History | Jimmy So | May 10, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTJust offstage, however, stands a nation of unemployed, abandoned and desperate people.
He used even Johnny Simms as an offstage voice repeating stern commands.
Operation: Outer Space | William Fitzgerald JenkinsAnd even if he found them, who would believe an actor offstage, delivering such improbable lines?
My Fair Planet | Evelyn E. SmithWhen Ophelia perishes offstage you don't think of post-mortem lividity or foam on the mouth.
The Trial of Callista Blake | Edgar Pangborn"—caught red-handed with the incriminating papers," shouted an offstage announcer.
The Junkmakers | Albert R. Teichner
British Dictionary definitions for offstage
/ (ˈɒfˈsteɪdʒ) /
out of the view of the audience; off the stage
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