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
She handed me her new album, autographed 'To Richard, thou shalt tread the boards.
From New York Times • Aug. 21, 2012
Miller, 29, is the latest British film star to tread the boards in the West End.
From Reuters • Jan. 21, 2011
And does not Planche, tremulous and blank, Meanwhile his personages tread the boards, Seem goaded by sharp swords, And called upon himself to "walk the plank?"
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James
