How To Use Tightrope In A Sentence
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Walk the tightrope
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And he will now be walking another disciplinary tightrope over the coming six weeks.
The Sun
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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.’
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Their art treads a perilous tightrope and I think they've just fallen off.
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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.
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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.
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There were gasps of horror from the spectators as he fell off the tightrope.
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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
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Hedges effectively treads the tightrope between comedy and drama without veering too far in either direction.
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Silver (aged six) asked why she was afraid of heights if she used to be a tightrope walker.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Meditation for a leap into the unknown At great turning points, life quivers precariously on the tightrope of obedience.
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In this regard, the resolution of the parliamentary faction treads a veritable tightrope.
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Acrobatics has maintained its status as a spectacular bodily art; complex gymnastic feats are now often performed with apparatus such as balls, unicycles, trampolines, tightropes, and trapezes.
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So the government is having to walk a tightrope here.
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We are walking a tightrope on that issue.
Times, Sunday Times
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~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~ tchatche (tchatcher) = to chat; la brocante (f) = second-hand goods, fleamarket; le brocanteur (m) = seller at a fleamarket; portugais = Portugeuse; français = French; le funambulist = tightrope walker; le pichet = pitcher; le papier (m) à bulles = plastic wrap with "bubbles
Brocante / Antiques
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They have magic shows , flying trapeze arts, tightrope walking and even the clowns.
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He walks the tightrope between drama and farce.
Times, Sunday Times
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For a player who walks a disciplinary tightrope, a fifth booking around the festive fixtures is par for the course.
The Sun
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I expect to continue to be accused by proponents on both sides of being pro-Isreal by some and anti-semitic and anti-Israel by others as I attempt to walk the narrow tightrope, with the aim of increasing the "dimensionality" of the discussion.
Rob Kall: Middle East Wiggle Room-- To Be Bought at a High Price, But Not Optional
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Given the tightrope she faced it is not surprising she tried to dodge the question.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government is walking a difficult tightrope in wanting to reduce interest rates without pushing up inflation.
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I think I'm doing this series of posts on images of trapeze artists/tightrope walkers because the word "aerialist" is so cool.
Lucas Gonze's blog
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His command is built on a tightrope of mixed emotions, a powder keg ready to explode at the slightest suggestion of disrespect.
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Hawley achieves the difficult task of walking the tightrope between sweet and sickly sweet, between sentiment and sentimentality.
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I feel I am walking a tightrope all the time.
Times, Sunday Times
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Life on the tightrope of politics is like a drug for those mad, brave or bigheaded enough to attempt it.
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Silver (aged six) asked why she was afraid of heights if she used to be a tightrope walker.
The Times Literary Supplement
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I walked a sad tightrope between trying to impress cooler kids through imitation and my mortal terror of wrathful authority figures.
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Audiences too, are drawn to the purity of the form; it's a little like watching someone walk a tightrope or bungee jump.
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It is a difficult balancing act, but, at the moment, Canadian politicians barely stand on two feet, let alone walk a tightrope of any kind.
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Comedians always seem to walk a tightrope between pathos and humour.
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Given the tightrope she faced it is not surprising she tried to dodge the question.
Times, Sunday Times
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It must have been the end of the school day for them as a flurry of wannabe clowns, tumblers and tightrope walkers came out of the bar as I was passing by.
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Parents often must balance on a tightrope between giving too much and too little attention to their child's obesity.
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Rather than a tightrope walker or trapezist we have a slack-wire artist who balances on his head.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's amazing how the tiger can jump through flaming hoops, how the bear can ride a motorcycle and how the lion can walk on a tightrope.
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Instead, the show walked a tightrope between sentiment and sentimentality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jean Francois Gravelet, aka Charles Blondin, was considered to be one of the greatest funambulists (aerialists/tightrope-walkers) of all time.
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It's a tricky enough business to perform this rustic comedy without the full paraphernalia of dancers, village musicians and tightrope walkers.
Times, Sunday Times
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But as matters stand, Scotland are in limbo, consigned to treading a tightrope with players balancing jobs and sport.
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Trustees were walking a tightrope by striving to curb profiteering while keeping generous benefactors happy, she added.
Times, Sunday Times
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He danced across a tightrope as easily as he strolled down a coun-try lane.
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You'd think she was about to walk a tightrope between two skyscrapers or something!
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Then he proceeded to dive off the tightrope in quite spectacular fashion.
Times, Sunday Times
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Your top cop needs to be a cheerleader, tightrope walker.
The Sun
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The administration walked a political and social tightrope as it tried to satisfy the conflicting demands of all these constituencies.
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For a player who walks a disciplinary tightrope, a fifth booking around the festive fixtures is par for the course.
The Sun
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And you have to walk that tightrope while making magnanimous noises to your opponent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sometimes, when moving along a large branch, or on the ground, they stand upright with their arms held high for balance, like a tightrope walker.
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He was talked out of a tightrope walk between two sky-scrapers to open a megastore in New York, but he has come close to death many times in publicity stunts.
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There's a tightrope to walk between honesty and hysteria, emotional blackness and emotional blackmail.
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He performed both feats without safety nets or harnesses and set new records for tightrope walking.
Times, Sunday Times
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In both her August 4 New York Times Magazine cover story about being a serial analysand, and in an article in the same publication on May 10, 2009 (from which the "wish to die" quotation comes), Merkin shows the courage of a burn victim on a tightrope.
Laura Baudo Sillerman: Reading The New Yorker , Thinking About Daphne Merkin
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In a sense they have walked a policy tightrope, aiming to do something about economic hardship without demanding "unrealistic" political changes.
Science, Technology, and Social Change
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The audience held its / their breath as the acrobat walked along the tightrope.
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The rare person who on the rare occasion wants to be wholly neutral has to walk a tightrope.
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She became a television presenter instead of a tightrope walker.
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It's often not easy for a manager to ‘walk the tightrope’ between commanding the respect of his team and risk being regarded as a martinet.
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He asked the famous tightrope walker, he tells her, how he had the nerve to perform his acrobatic feats.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government is walking a difficult tightrope in wanting to reduce interest rates without pushing up inflation.
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Houdini could walk a tightrope, untie knots with his toes, scale skyscrapers, dislocate his shoulders, and hold his breath for over three minutes.
The Magician Escapes the Show
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To write without thinking is to walk a tightrope with no net.
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Sir, Britain is walking an economic tightrope.
Times, Sunday Times
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School administrators walk a tightrope between the demands of the community and the realities of how children really behave.
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He was constantly aware of the tightrope he was walking-being a major player among the elite but not really one of them.
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The party system therefore treads a tightrope.
Democracy and its Critics - Anglo-American democratic thought in the nineteenth century
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It's like dancing on a tightrope across a ravine carrying a china cup and saucer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Designing a post - PC device is something of a tightrope act.
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All useful thought is founded on these two approaches working in tandem and balancing each other the way a long pole balances a tightrope walker.
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It's an impossible tightrope to walk.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whatever the nature of their reclusiveness, all of them have learnt to maintain a tightrope balance between the world, the self and their art.
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But for the past few weeks, due to her sickness, Chad, the ringmaster and manager of the circus refused to let her on the tightrope.
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Modern men and women walk a tightrope, with tiny changes being enough to tip the balance one way or the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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He asked the famous tightrope walker, he tells her, how he had the nerve to perform his acrobatic feats.
Times, Sunday Times
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WHY did the lion eat the tightrope walker?
The Sun
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Without the boom, it's "like if you were a tightrope walker, and you didn't have the net," said R? nee Brooks, an alderwoman in Pass Christian.
Oil slick brings boom to the boom business
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Next up for me it was tightrope walking - how hard could that be?
Times, Sunday Times
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They walk a tightrope between triumph and disaster.
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He has to walk a tightrope, not just one, but many, strung between all the many factions of this deeply divided nation.
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‘I think I've always walked a tightrope between art and commerce,’ muses Schumacher, sitting relaxedly on the floor of his suite.
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Given the tightrope she faced it is not surprising she tried to dodge the question.
Times, Sunday Times
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A tightrope walker would not attract a second glance if he performed his balancing feat four inches from the ground.
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Then he proceeded to dive off the tightrope in quite spectacular fashion.
Times, Sunday Times
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It must often be a very difficult tightrope to tread, since for very many patients medication is a definite lifeline.
Why am I Afraid to Grieve
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Also guilty of reckless challenge in first half and had to walk the tightrope.
The Sun
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Your top cop needs to be a cheerleader, tightrope walker.
The Sun
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Serbia are walking a disciplinary tightrope as six of their regulars are on one booking.
The Sun
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In 2009, director James Marsh won an Academy Award for "Man on Wire," which told the story of Philippe Petit, an anti-authoritarian aerialist who in 1974 walked from one Twin Tower to the other on a tightrope.
The Short List
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He flirts with danger, walks the tightrope and sends the run-rate zooming with booming blows.
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I feel as though I'm walking a tightrope between success and failure.
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I feel as though I'm walking a tightrope between success and failure.
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My afternoon begins with tightrope walking.
Times, Sunday Times
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We went to a performance where trained pachyderms put on an amazing demonstration of skill and talent, walking tightropes, dunking basketballs with their trunks and standing on their heads.
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The West Wing became a critical and fan favorite, and successfully walked that tricky tightrope between pontification and dramatization.
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That first present isn't a balancing act, but a sweaty-palmed tightrope walk.
The Sun
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Your top cop needs to be a cheerleader, tightrope walker.
The Sun
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Bank bosses ARE walking a tightrope.
The Sun
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Another is a violinist who plays quietly and rather well while balancing on a tightrope.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Does this sound like a balancing act on a tightrope?
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It's like walking a tightrope.
Acrylics Masterclass
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A couple of the more adventurous and acrobatic have even made the leap from one side of the garden to the other, spinning long tightropes way above head height.
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He's got one prop, an umbrella, and his dance exhausts its every use: as a cane, a pointer, a balancer on the tightrope of a curb, a cyclotron whirling him inside a whirlwind.
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Retailers, having cut back dramatically on inventories over the past year, are now walking a tightrope.
Times, Sunday Times
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The audience held its / their breath as the acrobat walked along the tightrope.
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Your top cop needs to be a cheerleader, tightrope walker.
The Sun
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Also guilty of reckless challenge in first half and had to walk the tightrope.
The Sun
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At the same time, Giolitti, always walking a tightrope between the conservative and progressive components of his own majority, was heavily conditioned in what he could offer.
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Inch by inch, the aerialist in the red flamenco outfit edges her way up a tightrope.
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Rocked by this dizzying mix of emotions, you walk a tightrope, balancing your own needs against those of your loved one.
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Children as young as eight and nine have been spotted chancing dangerous tightrope walks across the poles which rise up to 30 ft above the ground.
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Also guilty of reckless challenge in first half and had to walk the tightrope.
The Sun
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These include crossing a tightrope, a rope bridge, a swinging log, tyres, a tension traverse and a ‘crocodile pit’.
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It must tread a tightrope between being too punitive or too lenient.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fusilli with braised octopus and bone marrow is a tightrope balancing of flavors while the spaghetti with crab and sea urchin delivers instant comfort.
Chris Kompanek: Marea and New York Craft Beer Week Preview
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If you've ever wanted to walk a tightrope high above the circus floor but got nervous just thinking about it, slacklining may be for you.
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Her tree climbing was often described as how an ox would try to walk a tightrope.
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He asked the famous tightrope walker, he tells her, how he had the nerve to perform his acrobatic feats.
Times, Sunday Times
