Sentence examples for cleared the stage from inspiring English sources

He was just finishing I Don't Like, and talking about the need to stop violence, when music was turned down, the hologram disappeared and police cleared the stage.

After fielding questions from the audience, Ahold's executives concluded their presentation and cleared the stage of the theater for a drama of a different sort.

I've never forgotten a 1957 Stratford Tempest which cleared the stage of clutter and showed Gielgud as an angry, unromantic Prospero relying on rough magic.

By the time Kate Beckinsale, Colin Farrell, Jessica Biel and company, from Sony's "Total Recall" remake, cleared the stage, there was tension in the ranks of fandom.

Though the Cretaceous asteroid cleared the stage, mammals did not really get going until 10m years later, in the Eocene epoch.

Realizing that there was nothing he could do for the moment, he cleared the stage and spent the lunch hour back in his office eating a sandwich, returning phone calls.

His strategists call this "clearing the stage".

It was hard to clear the stage, and alumni lingered in the wings.

A student, in an auditorium, films the SWAT team clearing the stage with their guns drawn.

After the band stopped playing, security was able to clear the stage.

Like compulsory retirement, term limits clear the stage for new blood.