tightrope walker
Britishnoun
Other Word Forms
- tightrope walking noun
Example Sentences
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His first series, “Jultagi,” used the Korean tightrope walker as a metaphor for the immigrant experience.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024
Their buccaneering batting is made all the more thrilling by the risk of it going spectacularly wrong, like watching a tightrope walker tiptoe between skyscrapers.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2023
House of Representatives, their party leader Kevin McCarthy is hoping to land one job he has long coveted - speaker of the House - but may get another tough one as well - tightrope walker.
From Reuters • Nov. 15, 2022
Graham Greene is deemed a “brilliant tightrope walker edging between God and his grubby little creatures” but nonetheless compares unfavorably to Isaac Bashevis Singer.
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2022
I felt like a tightrope walker, balancing the urge to hurry out of the cutting wind and the need to step carefully so as not to fall on my hind regions.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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