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

But, in the words of his biographer Kate Bassett: "He could not both walk the wards and tread the boards."

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2019

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

In Great Expectations Mr. Wopsle, who is a parish clerk by profession, had an ambition not only to tread the boards, but to start off as Hamlet.

From Charles Dickens and Music by Lightwood, James T.