Sentence examples for understudy off from inspiring English sources
Mr. Robbins, a soft-spoken director who displayed a teacher's encouraging hand during rehearsal, said Ms. Rebeck had been his first choice for the commission because he had long been an admirer of her "edgy, fearless work," which includes the plays "Mauritius" on Broadway and "The Understudy" Off Broadway.
It took on greater significance, however, when Bacary Sagna's understudy limped off with a knee injury leaving Arsenal without a recognised right-back.
Ms. Quackenbush, a native of New Jersey who moved to Manhattan in 1983 when she was hired for her first Off Broadway show, has since performed both principal roles and as an understudy on and off Broadway during her two-decade career.
She has nimble feet and a reliable medium-range shot but no understudy help off the bench.
In Priestland's injury-absence in 2012-13, Hook was Biggar's Six Nations understudy, coming off the bench for his last cap in the 30-3 win over England in Cardiff that sealed Wales' title win.
After college, he got a job as an understudy in an off-Broadway play.
A year after graduating, Skeggs was cast to be an understudy in the Off-Broadway production of Fun Home at the Public Theater.
The basic idea for the film started when he hired screenwriters to rework a screenplay called The Understudy, which was about off-Broadway actors and explored the notion of being haunted by a double.
After about a half-hour, the opera resumed where it had left off, with an understudy, Theodora Hanslowe, carrying on in the role.
Injury was added to insult as Szczesny's understudy Lukasz Fabianski was carried off on a stretcher with a bad gash on his left knee before full-back Andre Santos limped out early in the second half with a sprained right ankle.
But at his best – and he will have to perform at somewhere near the optimum to hold off his young understudies, Jamie George of Saracens and Luke Cowan-Dickie of Exeter, he is the nearest thing England currently have to a world-class tight forward.
