tread the boards
Example Sentences
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At 83, he is eager to tread the boards once again — and to continue working as steadily as he has for the last six decades.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2024
But, in the words of his biographer Kate Bassett: "He could not both walk the wards and tread the boards."
From BBC • Nov. 27, 2019
She handed me her new album, autographed 'To Richard, thou shalt tread the boards.
From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2012
Miller, 29, is the latest British film star to tread the boards in the West End.
From Reuters • Jan. 21, 2011
Corneille did not, however, like Moli�re, tread the boards as an actor.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
