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
She handed me her new album, autographed 'To Richard, thou shalt tread the boards.
From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2012
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
The hour awaited for twenty years had at last struck; he was about to tread the boards.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
