Sentence examples for stage set off from inspiring English sources

A ticker-tape machine looms center stage, set off by cagelike, circular walls that separate, define and confine the inhabitants of a rigidly stratified city.

As the third stage set off from Cambridge, the peloton passed famous landmarks including Cambridge University's St John's, Trinity and King's colleges.

A figure strode onto the stage, setting off a cascade of cheers.

Only a year earlier, NBC's "Frasier" proved the same point by bringing the show's longest-running subplot, the unrequited love between two characters (Niles and Daphne) to center stage, setting off a similar creative and ratings resurgence.

Stage One Friday 29 April 2016: Beverley to Settle Total stage length 184km The first stage will set off from Saturday Market in Beverley.

The alarm was raised only when organisers noticed a bike was left over after the other competitors had completed the 750m swimming stage and set off on the 14-mile cycle stage.

The young soloist Maria Alexandrova has a jump so astonishing that when, as Myrtha in the opening-night "Giselle," she did her big running leaps down the stage, she set off a wave of involuntary vocalization ("Holy shit!") in my section of the audience.

As was customary of time trial stages, cyclists set off in reverse order from where they were ranked in the general classification at the end of the previous stage.

As is customary in time trial stages, cyclists set off in reverse order from where they were ranked in the general classification at the end of the previous stage.

The researchers also found that noncancerous cells near nascent tumors emitted a remarkably strong glow: early-stage cancers apparently set off hot spots of accelerated cellular aging.

Contre-la-montre - French for time trial, the stages where riders set off one-by-one, or in team formations, and ride against the clock.