trapeze artist
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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As for Morgan Gibbs-White exaggerating the challenge, and flying through the air like a trapeze artist, he should be ashamed of himself.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2024
I had leveled its stems with scissors, pinched its buds with my pincers and hung it upside down like a trapeze artist without a net.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022
For a writer, eschewing the dramatic guardrails that plot and high stakes provide is a bit like a trapeze artist working without a net.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2022
"The Greatest Showman," in contrast, scrubs this history clean by casting Zendaya as a trapeze artist with whom Barnum's playwright partner, played by Zac Efron, falls in love.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2020
This, I told myself, is how a trapeze artist in a circus must feel as he goes swishing through the air high up in the circus tent.
From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl
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