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Upstaging is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Upstaging | Upstaged | Upstages

Upstaging meaning

present participle and gerund of upstage

Using Upstaging

  • The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of upstage
  • In the example corpus, upstaging often appears in combinations such as: of upstaging, upstaging the, upstaging his.

Context around Upstaging

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

crucially 1× resist 1× inspired 1× little 1× soon 1× gentiles 1×

Often after:

powerhouses 1× rivals 1× tends 1× jewish 1×

Sentence patterns with Upstaging

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a little upstaging with his 1× after upstaging powerhouses the 1× alcohol inspired upstaging tends to 1× capable of upstaging the two 1× chances of upstaging an accomplished 1× concerned with upstaging his boss 1× doing the upstaging but alas 1× short of upstaging the reigning 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a belgian political 1× after upstaging powerhouses 1× although there had 1× birregurra coach karen 1× elon musk at 1× even as vice 1×

Common sentence endings:

and ayanna hutchinson 1× from the continent 1× gunpowder is involved 1× his own story 1× his political trajectory 1× hummer seem discreet 1×

Words around Upstaging

Just before it in the word index:

upstages 2 upstaged 29 upstage 38 upst 7 upsssc 3 upss 4

Just after it in the word index:

upstairs 547 upstander 2 upstanding 35 upstart 140 upstarts 28 upstate 308

Similar in corpus frequency:

abada 16 abbottabad 16 abdulkareem 16 abdurrahman 16 aberdour 16 abominations 16

Corpus analysis for Upstaging

  • In this selection, "upstaging" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, crucially, resist, inspired, powerhouses, rivals and tends stand out and add context to how "upstaging" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a little upstaging with his and after upstaging powerhouses the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "upstaging" sits close to words such as abada, abbottabad and abdulkareem, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with upstaging

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

In Concorde, Ahye was soon upstaging her seniors Fana Ashby and Ayanna Hutchinson. (13 words)

Perhaps he was hoping hair would finally be the one doing the upstaging—but, alas, he had lost his moment. (20 words)

Birregurra coach Karen Hart says the young Saints are starting to build belief after falling agonisingly short of upstaging the reigning premiers. (22 words)

Longer example sentences

He is new to captaincy but Bangladesh skipper Mominul Haque is confident that the added responsibility will not affect his batting, which will be crucial to his team’s chances of upstaging an accomplished India in the Test series starting here Thursday. (42 words)

Although there had been questions of whether Ezekwesili has a political structure to oust Buhari during the 2019 election, considering his power of incumbency and Tinubu as his ally, she insisted she was capable of upstaging the two front runners. (40 words)

Even as Vice -President, he was more concerned with upstaging his boss and becoming the President as he had been promised by marabouts who had earlier, uncannily, predicted his political trajectory. (31 words)

Example sentences (12)

Birregurra coach Karen Hart says the young Saints are starting to build belief after falling agonisingly short of upstaging the reigning premiers.

Even as Vice -President, he was more concerned with upstaging his boss and becoming the President as he had been promised by marabouts who had earlier, uncannily, predicted his political trajectory.

A Belgian political veteran, Reynders played his Berlaymont role in overseeing the EU’s high-profile legal stand-off with Hungary over the rule of law without — crucially — upstaging his boss.

After upstaging powerhouses the United States and Jamaica to win a rare Olympic sprint gold for Africa, Letsile Tebogo aims to unleash the "deadly" untapped potential of athletes from the continent.

Elon Musk at Tesla couldn’t resist upstaging rivals with the concept Cybertruck, a truck so Mad Max-macho that it makes a Hummer seem discreet.

But, for some of the country’s more adventurous (read: inebriated) merrymakers, a solid combination of alcohol-inspired upstaging tends to go south very quickly when gunpowder is involved.

He is new to captaincy but Bangladesh skipper Mominul Haque is confident that the added responsibility will not affect his batting, which will be crucial to his team’s chances of upstaging an accomplished India in the Test series starting here Thursday.

The keynote speaker was Alvin Jackson, Bunnell’s relatively new city manager, who managed somehow to do a little upstaging with his own story.

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Although there had been questions of whether Ezekwesili has a political structure to oust Buhari during the 2019 election, considering his power of incumbency and Tinubu as his ally, she insisted she was capable of upstaging the two front runners.

In Concorde, Ahye was soon upstaging her seniors Fana Ashby and Ayanna Hutchinson.

Perhaps he was hoping hair would finally be the one doing the upstaging—but, alas, he had lost his moment.

Taken literally the passage at Revelations 3:9 would refer to Gentiles upstaging Jewish followers of Jesus, feigning to be more Jewish than Jews themselves.

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Common combinations with upstaging

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

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Upstaging means: present participle and gerund of upstage
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