Example Sentences

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The film is a loosely sketched drama told via visually impeccable tableaus and a few flights of well-staged fancy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Except for the next well-staged crime prevention announcement.

From Washington Post • Oct. 8, 2021

Or that “Hotel Mumbai,” a well-staged model of the form, should leave you feeling fidgety and low?

From The New Yorker • Mar. 15, 2019

Daredevil Ben Affleck stars as a blind attorney who perfects his other senses to the point of moonlighting as a costumed hero in this well-staged 2003 fantasy-adventure.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2017

So far, everything had run smoothly, like a well-staged play.

From Jean of the Lazy A by Bower, B. M.