walk-on
Example Sentences
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“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
At a charity ball earlier this year tied to the Cannes film festival, Durov paid 400,000 euros in an auction to win Vavilova a walk-on role in a Spike Lee movie.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
Sakai gained the support of the Alexandra Palace crowd with a long, exuberant walk-on and was a showman who played up to the fans throughout his match.
From BBC • Dec. 18, 2025
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
