walk-on
Example Sentences
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Appropriately, then, his walk-on music at Wembley was also an Elvis track - in this case, a cover of Bridge Over Troubled Water.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 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
The former Crespi High star initially wanted to play for Michigan State, but he couldn’t make the team, even as a walk-on, so he tried to become a student manager, and failed at that, too.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
“If I did nothing but eat and lift for six months,” a football fan might fantasize, “I could be a walk-on at the next Jets training camp.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 29, 2026
Some twenty-five years ago, I and another member of the "Grill-room Club" used occasionally to "walk-on" in the great autumn Drury Lane melodramas.
From Here, There and Everywhere by Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord
