How to Use staging ground in a Sentence

staging ground

noun

• In return, Lukashenko allowed Belarus to be used as a staging ground for the war in Ukraine.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 26 June 2023
• Afghanistan no longer served as a potential staging ground for attacks on the U.S.
  — Gerald F. Seib, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2021
• And the Great Salt Lake isn’t the only saline lake in the West providing this critical avian staging ground.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Oct. 2022
• The staging ground for this odyssey is the Colombian town of Necoclí, where hundreds of migrants from around the world are camped out on the palm-fringed beaches.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2021
• The staging ground for their relationship squabbles has grown from a petri dish to the cosmos.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
• The shooting took place near a park in Portland that has been the staging ground for a number of protests against police killings in recent years.
  — New York Times, 20 Feb. 2022
• Russian troops have used the town as a staging ground for operations in the east since seizing control of it in May.
  — Gordon Lubold, WSJ, 30 Sep. 2022
• The headquarters and its factory gates were the frequent staging ground for protests.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Aug. 2022
• The passage devoted to the fort describes it as the staging ground for Wallace’s plans to capture the Scottish castle of Lochmaben in 1297.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2020
• Now, Necoclí, a small Colombian tourist town just at the mouth of the passage, has become a staging ground for migrants hoping to cross.
  — New York Times, 1 Oct. 2021
• Oil still drives a boom-and-bust economy, making the state a kind of war profiteer and a staging ground for climate change.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
• Crimea was a key staging ground when President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than a year ago.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Apr. 2023
• Belarus is a close ally of Russia and was a staging ground for the Kremlin's invasion on Feb. 24.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2022
• The Great Salt Lake alone serves as a nesting and staging ground for more than 10 million migratory birds each year.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Dec. 2022
• Control over the city would isolate Russian forces to the south in Izyum, which Moscow had sought to use as a staging ground for its own offensive.
  — Isabel Coles, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• Belarus was a staging ground for Russian troops to launch their invasion of Ukraine a little over 13 months ago.
  — Yuras Karmanau, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Mar. 2023
• Russia took control of it in the opening days of the war in the apparent hope of using it as a staging ground for an assault on Odesa.
  — Francesca Ebel, Anchorage Daily News, 1 July 2022
• Kyiv has warned Transnistria, which lies on Ukraine’s western border, could be the staging ground for a Russian attack.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 22 Apr. 2022
• Reddit, the company that was the staging ground for the revolt of amateur traders, also did well.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2022
• Forty-two years later, that same spot serves as the staging ground for construction crews building the border wall in this valley.
  — Ed Lavandera and Ashley Killough, CNN, 23 Dec. 2020
• His efforts came even as the country became a staging ground for the invasion of Ukraine in February.
  — Andrew Higgins, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Nov. 2022
• Just across the border from an Israeli radar tower, it has been used as a staging ground for Hezbollah’s attacks against Israel.
  — Meg Kelly, Washington Post, 11 Dec. 2023
• The move made southern Turkish towns staging grounds for the opposition.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
• Belarus served as a staging ground for Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine.
  — Time, 29 Dec. 2022
• Belarus was a staging ground for amassing Russian troops before the invasion of Ukraine a little over 13 months ago.
  — Yuras Karmanau, ajc, 31 Mar. 2023
• Analysts say the region is a staging ground and logistics hub for the incursion.
  — Illia Novikov and Emma Burrows, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
• Russia could use Crimea’s ports to block Ukrainian trade, for example, or as a staging ground for future conflict.
  — Adam Taylor, Júlia Ledur, Francesca Ebel and Mary Ilyushina, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Apr. 2023
• On Thursday, with the Cason Methodist Church as the staging ground, nearly a dozen scouts — both boys and girls — fanned out around town to deliver dinners to 66 families who are in need.
  — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 24 Nov. 2022
• Under the agreement, the Taliban promise not to let extremists use the country as a staging ground for attacking the U.S. or its allies.
  — Kathy Gannon, The Denver Post, 29 Feb. 2020
• That has allowed Russia to use the border areas as safe staging grounds for offensives and missile attacks.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 14 July 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024