tightrope
IPA: tˈaɪtroʊp
noun
- A tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground.
- (figuratively) a difficult or desperate situation.
verb
- To walk on a tightrope
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Examples of "tightrope" in Sentences
- It's a tightrope we all walk on.
- I'm up to Tightrope at the moment.
- Like balancing a coin on a tightrope.
- Johnson walked a tightrope in society.
- It's a tightrope covered with bananna peels.
- Trina is a ballet dancing, tightrope walker.
- Though Islamists occasionally walk the tightrope.
- And thanks for recognizing the tightrope challenge.
- But with the eyes closed it was like walking a tightrope.
- I use an analogy of which I have no actual knowledge — namely tightrope walking.
- Living with a neighbour, especially an oversized one, is like walking a tightrope.
- … The one-and-done thing, walking the tightrope is a hard thing, a very difficult thing.
- She zips past me, in a dramatic movie-starrish way, to the center of my living room, where she proceeds to pace back and forth in short tightrope movements.
- She revels in Pippi's sly adventures, and she is getting exposed to words like "tightrope" and "expedition" that don't usually come up in everyday conversation and will surely come in handy when she sees them in other texts someday.
- Sneider manages to sustain a delicate balance between caricature and identification in a black comedy that, for the most part, successfully walks that peculiarly Latin American tightrope between soap-opera naturalism and slightly feverish myth.
- The tightrope is a fitting visual metaphor seen constantly in the movie as the players, as they do in the ‘play within the play’ in Hamlet, wield power of a sort by confronting the court with things that no member of the aristocracy or monarchy could say outright.
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