How to Use stagehand in a Sentence

stagehand

noun

• Thus cued the stagehand who emerged to the right wing of the stage, mop in hand.
  — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 18 Nov. 2023
• Better to have left the curtain up and revealed the stagehands at work.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
• The wait looked to be about 2-1/2 hours, according to a venue stagehand, a graybeard in a black T-shirt.
  — Jerry Beilinson, Popular Mechanics, 25 Mar. 2014
• If the kitchen is a culinary theater, then the cabinets are the stagehands.
  — Kelly Dawson, House Beautiful, 1 Aug. 2019
• One video, said to be taken from the crowd at the venue, a stagehand kicked a squirrel who had made its way onto the stage.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE.com, 9 June 2022
• A mute group of 13 children served briefly as window-dressing and stagehands.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2016
• The city and the company agreed to hire nine union employees — eight stagehands and one foreman — for the three-day concert.
  — Maria Cramer, BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2019
• A stagehand pulled a switch and he was charged with fifty thousand volts of pure electricity.
  — Bruce Sterling, WIRED, 6 June 2012
• My buddy John and I were asked to be stagehands – the only seventh graders in an eighth grade production.
  — Owen Thomas, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Feb. 2024
• As much can be said of the scene-changing entr’acte these mock stagehands stage during the intermission.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
• If stagehands were busy or there were rehearsals going on, forget about it.
  — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2018
• This was a financial boon for a band that was paying many unionized stagehands.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 28 July 2019
• In late February 2018, like stagehands striking and rebuilding a set, the Supreme Court did it all over again.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 28 May 2018
• During her ascent, a masked stagehand could be seen helping her up.
  — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2023
• After the first bit ended, Osborne rushed over to Duddy and grabbed two beers before the prop box was taken from him by a stagehand.
  — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, 6 June 2019
• Each death brings me back to the stage, for a conversation with the director or a stagehand, a glimpse into a world behind the curtain.
  — Julie Muncy, WIRED, 7 June 2019
• Is the hand of a fan or stagehand or bodyguard, Body double, bystander, interloper, beloved ghost, & the two of us watching from a bridge on the far side.
  — Terrance Hayes, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• The closures will cost an untold tens of millions of dollars and put actors, stagehands, ushers, and many others out of a job.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2020
• Some people are expected to rush or wait for others, like stagehands running around in the background so the real show can go on.
  — Hazlitt, 8 Mar. 2023
• The sky and sea are colored swaths of cotton stretched out on simple frames, the waves the effect of two stagehands manipulating the fabric.
  — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• The taller, deeper stage will attract bigger acts and let stagehands perform quicker changeovers.
  — Bill Glauber, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2019
• And stagehands have pulled an audience member onstage to hold up a mantelpiece that keeps falling off the set.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2017
• Last month, Live Nation was sued over a forklift injury allegedly suffered by a stagehand who was building a stage for the Weeknd.
  — Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, 8 Sep. 2023
• Doubling as a sort of stagehand, Ms. Persson moves props around and rearranges small models of the Woman and Man’s home, which are then projected on the screen, blown up to life size.
  — James R. Oestreich, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2017
• Two stagehands appear and remove the dress as Dreyfuss mimics a striptease before putting on a blazer and taking his seat ahead of the screening.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
• Marty Burnett’s tongue-in-cheek scenic design has two large cabinet walls with pop-open panels for stagehands to pass props through.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Apr. 2023
• At the time, Poitier was working as a janitor in exchange for acting classes and Harry was a stagehand.
  — Alexia Fernández, PEOPLE.com, 7 Jan. 2022
• The associate designers are the ones that are going out and finding the stagehands and crafts that can actually maintain a show.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023
• Four officials in dark uniforms come to retrieve him, like stagehands fetching scenery.
  — Jon Mooallem, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• The grants covered costs that included theater license fees, staffing, stagehands, ticketing and in-house equipment use fees.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Oct 2024