walk-on
Example Sentences
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And what’s with Douglas MacArthur’s walk-on just before the final curtain?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
How it happened is a tale of speculation, the oil panic and the rotating winners from artificial intelligence, with a walk-on part for the weird way indexes work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Rioux, who will be a redshirt sophomore, grew up in Quebec, Canada, and played at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., before attending Florida as a preferred walk-on.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
But she failed to hear her husband Mark's voice on a phone call with Kathy, or see her son's walk-on cameo at the Queen Vic.
From BBC ● Feb. 22, 2026
I could guess how she'd set the stage for my weekly call, and if I found myself with anything more than a walk-on part in a mob scene I'd be lucky.
From Torchy, Private Sec. by F. Foster Lincoln
