tread the boards
Example Sentences
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Now Finlayson has been memorialised with a new portrait in the Scottish theatre where he first tread the boards more than a century ago.
From BBC • Mar. 12, 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
As the doctor and her attendant were about placing her in a sedan-chair to bear her away, a strange desire seized her to behold the theatre and tread the boards once more.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various
