How to Use proscenium in a Sentence

proscenium

noun
  • The host walked onto the proscenium.
  • Here’s who else popped in the proscenium this week in late night.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The guys with the mics rhyme not from a proscenium, but amidst the crowd.
    — Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Gustern would liken the mouth to a theater, and the arch over the tongue a proscenium.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2022
  • When those big old stage lights came on in the proscenium arch theater, my whole heart leapt.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Out goes the proscenium arch and the entire fabric and texture.
    — David Benedict, Variety, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Her unique position behind love’s proscenium has chipped away at her.
    — Alexandra Tanner, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • Early in her career, Brown wanted no part of the proscenium stage.
    — Joan Acocella, The New Yorker, 24 June 2019
  • The proscenium has been reduced in size at least twice since the theater opened in 1835.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2017
  • His sculpture, shaped like a proscenium, is meant to be used as an actual stage for performers who need space.
    — Diana Budds, Curbed, 27 May 2021
  • The gleaming metal bas-reliefs above the proscenium arch are pure ‘30s swank.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2022
  • So Daldry breaks through the proscenium pretense to let his characters talk to the camera (us).
    — Armond White, National Review, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Sachs’s proscenium-like images catch glints off the sword-sharp edges of the elegant dialogue.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2019
  • The proscenium theater, which would have the largest footprint of the new additions, would sit along the southern edge of the park.
    — Dallas News, 8 Dec. 2022
  • With the orchestra onstage, the pit will be covered so that singers can move out past the proscenium and closer to the front of the stage.
    — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Performers’ voices don’t seem to carry beyond the proscenium, which seems to trap sound.
    — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • Mary stage right, Joseph stage left, with the Magi hovering near the proscenium.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, SFChronicle.com, 24 Nov. 2020
  • There, the actors perform on a proscenium stage rather than on a low outdoor platform just a few feet from the audience.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 24 July 2024
  • At the opening of the third act, the stage was dominated by a two-story house that very nearly filled the proscenium.
    — David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 7 June 2018
  • The sets, by the design collective dots, are mostly cheap flats that are far too short for the size of the Lyceum proscenium.
    — Christian Lewis, Variety, 12 July 2024
  • From the concert hall’s proscenium stage, 20 attendants looked on.
    — New York Times, 15 June 2018
  • The scrim in the back went up and revealed the letters of Bianca’s name as tall as the proscenium, which is about one and a half stories.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 18 June 2024
  • Located on the south end of the complex, its proscenium is framed by the skeletal remnants of the original east shed.
    — Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The intimacy is such that even with a proscenium stage, this is the epitome of immersive opera.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Gone is the proscenium, gone are the front rows of seats, and now a long walkway thrusts toward the audience in a darkened atmosphere.
    — Mel Shields, sacbee.com, 22 June 2017
  • But now, stepping past the proscenium of his private life and performing on the public stage, Douglas faces great risk.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The original, set to a score by Cage — it won’t be played at the beach, which provides its own score — was created for the proscenium stage.
    — Gia Kourlas Amir Hamja, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Freedom feels ever more tangible when there are no walls around you, the artists have escaped the proscenium frame, and set design is left up to the sun, sky and birds.
    — Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post, 2 June 2022
  • But the beam-me-up rays of light are pulled away to reveal a floating proscenium, gilded at the edges and decorated with a landscape mural.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2023
  • And methinks the mystery driving this sparkly debut would translate well onto a proscenium.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026

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