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
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
The part was given to Westwood, a professional actor, and Otway never essayed to tread the boards again.'
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague
