treading the boards
Example Sentences
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“It’s as much fun as it looks,” he says, adding that he can’t really give advice to his former small-screen sibling about treading the boards.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2025
Had she been treading the boards a few hundred years ago, there is little doubt Welch would indeed have been unafraid to give the Bard a piece of her mind.
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2024
That's because the 33-year-old is treading the boards in New York in a revival of the one-woman show that started the whole phenomenon in 2013.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2019
It's the ham actor in a daytime soap opera who dreams of treading the boards for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2012
You imagine yourself treading the boards and holding all hearts captive with your voice.
From Hetty Wesley by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
