stage-struck
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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"I'm not stage-struck now. Nobody's more surprised than I am that I have, in fact, spent my life doing this."
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
But Broadway is still the dream of stage-struck thespians.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2022
I saw it with my equally stage-struck friend, Scot Osterweil, and after the show we dissected it with the intensity common to know-it-all theater nerds the world over.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 25, 2020
Musical theater is the milieu of “Better Nate Than Ever,” Tim Federle’s winning tale of a stage-struck young teen.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2019
There was a big fire out under the mesquite that night and a band of cowboys, in all the bravery of spurs, shaps, and pistols, romped around it in a stage-struck exuberance of spirits.
From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard
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