walk-on
Example Sentences
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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
“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
That makes me excited to wake up and do the whole, like, walk-on or whatever.
From Barron's • Jan. 21, 2026
Starting center, former walk-on Kilian O’Connor, played in eight games.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 30, 2025
Louis the Goon Engel was a mere walk-on in the piece, a spear-carrier doomed to death.
From Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 by Various
