Sentence examples for clearing the stage from inspiring English sources

His strategists call this "clearing the stage".

Mr. Clinton is scheduled to address the convention on Monday night and then leave the next day, effectively clearing the stage for Mr. Gore.

"You can go through hell and still survive," she says, just before clearing the stage and returning for Be My Baby.

The Sooners lost six seniors from last year's team that advanced to the third round of the N.C.A.A. tournament and was No. 9 in the final Associated Press rankings, clearing the stage for Ashley, who has started every game this season.

The analogy conjures up not only the endless recycling of familiar conventions -- which I think was Judd's meaning -- but also a sequence of more or less pleasant entertainments in which each player executes a song-and-dance routine that works well with the other numbers and then exits gracefully, clearing the stage for the next performer.

Raina advanced to 38 off 33 before he was bowled by Nabi in the final over, his dismissal merely clearing the stage for captain Mahendra Dhoni to belt 10 runs off the last two balls of the innings.

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

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

If this is to work as desired, it will not be enough to clear the stage.

Then, before encores, he politely insisted that the fans clear the stage.

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