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
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
As the doctor and her attendant were about placing her in a sedan-chair to bear her away, a strange desire seized her to behold the theatre and tread the boards once more.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 by Various
