tightrope

How To Use tightrope In A Sentence

• Walk the tightrope
• And he will now be walking another disciplinary tightrope over the coming six weeks. The Sun
• You'd eventually get fired when the tightrope walker wouldn't go on because he'd ricked his ankle - but of course on paper it would say that ‘Stephen didn't meet targets.’
• Their art treads a perilous tightrope and I think they've just fallen off.
• The men and women who take amazing risks by jumping great distances on motorcycles and in cars, walk thin tightropes high above the ground, and get dangerously close to animals have long been a source of inspiration and shock.
• The tightrope walk between self-promotion for the sake of viability and distaste for anything that smacks of selling-out has presented Stanley with a dilemma.
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• Despite the narrator's poetically expressed assertion that "history tightropes toward family," history barely puts in an appearance here.
• There were gasps of horror from the spectators as he fell off the tightrope.
• Finland, which is not a NATO member, walked a fine tightrope between East and West by adopting a practice known as "Finlandization," meaning the country deferred to Russia on major political decisions. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion