trapeze artist
Americannoun
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“It was so eloquent. Like watching a trapeze artist on a high wire, poised gracefully in midair.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
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
“Montreal is called the home of nouveau cirque,” said trapeze artist Guillaume Blais, co-founder of circus nonprofit Le Monastère.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 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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