funambulist

NOUN
  1. an acrobat who performs on a tightrope or slack rope
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How To Use funambulist In A Sentence

  • After all, both men were both expert funambulists, having risen to the rank of Black Belt in the Ringling Brothers School of Aerial Arts.
  • These acts, which range from trampoline performers to high wire funambulists, provide audience members with edge-of-your-seat excitement and pulse-pounding suspense.
  • Then, from one generation the next, the Venetians battled the elements like funambulists walking a tight-rope.
  • It's an extraordinary quality bartenders have; a bar or, in this case, a lounge, can be quite adverse and hectic and easily become chaotic, yet bartenders - good bartenders, that is, go about the storm of hands and impatient glares and fidgets with a frightful calm, riding a teetering wire between cordiality of social obligation and quickness and precision of hand with the balance of a world-class funambulist. Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 1
  • Caillois looked to the funambulist for inspiration: he who ‘only succeeds if he is sure enough of himself to rely upon vertigo instead of trying to resist it.’
  • Other members of the cast of La Nouba include funambulists, dancers, tumblers, trapeze performers, equilibrists, clowns, actors, acrogymnasts, cyclists, musicians, vocalists and circus artists.
  • Having looked in up, in retrospect “funambulist” sounds far more interesting than the common term most people use. Beating the rush on a National Book Award winner « A Progressive on the Prairie
  • Having looked in up, in retrospect “funambulist” sounds far more interesting than the common term [3] most people use. A Progressive on the Prairie » Beating the rush on a National Book Award winner » Print
  • Most of the banquets lasted 8-10 hours, with some pauses for a concert or a representation with clowns, circus and funambulists.
  • It begins by referring to the “funambulist” at the heart of the novel. Beating the rush on a National Book Award winner « A Progressive on the Prairie
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