scene stealer

Example Sentences

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The scene-stealer, though, is Patrick McGoohan as an acerbic secret agent.

From Los Angeles Times

He said he was content to be known as a character actor — “every role is a character role,” he once remarked — and developed a reputation as a reliable scene-stealer, even when his scenes were brief.

From Washington Post

NEF What is your relationship to the word “scene-stealer”? It’s the word that really follows me.

From New York Times

If any title released in 2023 has the weight to be a scene-stealer like Ragnarök or Elden Ring, it’s Tears of the Kingdom.

From Seattle Times

If butter was the megastar of the year, the surprise scene-stealer turned out to be pancake mix.

From Salon