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
Antony Costa is swapping the boy band Blue to tread the boards while embracing his Greek heritage.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2023
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
Inevitably, Nell Gwyn, the most famous actor in London at a moment when women were at last allowed to tread the boards, looms large here.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2012
We talked for a long time on "pictures"—he was so happy and earnest about it that it was some time before we made an attempt to tread the boards and get behind the footlights.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
