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How to use understudy in a sentence

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When rehearsals began, she was so impressed with him that she made him understudy for Jason's leading role.
Shortly after making the move, she was hired as an understudy for the company.
He is standing to the side once again on this day, an understudy in this tumultuous theatre.
The spritely 27-year-old was swept in as a last-minute understudy for the part when Clairemarie Osta came down with double tendinitis.
I was his understudy for a few years and I tried to learn as much as I could from him.
Dale Robinson will again understudy with a tune-up eight-rounder ahead of a possible crack at the British flyweight title around Christmas.
Beginning as a swing and understudy in 1996, the teenager eventually scored a major role and performed the lead as an understudy about ten times.
She was called back for a second, then a third audition before being cast as an understudy to the lead.
He will understudy his successor who has an important role behind the scenes on the tour.
I was rehearsing for a small part in Chicago, though my agent felt a understudy role in Alabama was more likely.
What is an understudy or replacement to do when he takes over a role vacated by a star?
There are several Juliets, at least two Romeos, and among the 32 dancers everyone seems to understudy everybody else.
Their Siegfried injured his leg, so his understudy lip-synced the role while the hurt tenor sang from a chair.
After the auditions, she told me that she wanted me to understudy all of the parts, since I knew them already, just in case.
In 1942 she was taken on as understudy for Tallulah Bankhead in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth on Broadway.
Indeed, I was heavily backed to go the 1978 World Cup as his understudy but in the end I wasn't fit enough.
Staff will be deployed to understudy countries with increasing expertise on those countries.
In this era, he was the understudy and occasional striking partner of a certain Diego Maradona.
I don't suppose anyone goes to drama school with the sole intention of being an understudy.
Now considered the leading understudy to the peerless Gianluigi Buffon, the agile Marco Amelia has fulfilled his early promise.
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Examples from Classical Literature
And the maid will leave us before the month is over and I shall be her understudy.
It will start in two minutes, and we shall see what the understudy can make of it.
The Indian sambar deer looks like a short-legged big-bodied understudy of our American elk.
The result was that toller was forthwith appointed as an understudy to Snarley Bob.
But an understudy was to play her part that night and she had no excuse.
I must provide an understudy for Mr. Macy, and others of the cast, also.
Through the two acts which followed, the understudy kept it up.
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