tread the boards
Example Sentences
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So, has she any desire to tread the boards again?
From BBC • Apr. 13, 2025
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
For his 2012 album, “Viva Duets,” he collaborated with Latin American artists like Chayanne, Thalía and Marc Anthony; in Newark, he’ll tread the boards with one of his daughters, the singer Antonia Bennett.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2015
Miller, 29, is the latest British film star to tread the boards in the West End.
From Reuters • Jan. 21, 2011
And does not Planche, tremulous and blank, Meanwhile his personages tread the boards, Seem goaded by sharp swords, And called upon himself to "walk the plank?"
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
