Want to use Tightrope correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning and synonyms like rope.
Tightrope in a sentence
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Tightrope meaning
- A tightly stretched rope or cable on which acrobats perform high above the ground.
- A difficult or desperate situation.
Synonyms of Tightrope
Example sentences (20)
It was a political tightrope he may never have managed if he’d grown up in the heart of Plains rather than Archery.
Stepping off the precarious tightrope of waiting until 70 doesn’t mean sacrificing a comfortable retirement, though.
Tightrope walker Ksenia Archer stood on top of a large ball holding a banner that read ‘2 weeks to save the circus’.
It finds itself walking a tightrope, striving to avoid becoming collateral damage in the escalating Cold War tensions.
Netflix movie adds a story and many more self-parodying celebs to the comedian’s tightrope walk of a talk show.
I was charmed as Chau walked that tightrope but some audiences may feel she wobbles alarmingly and tumbles off.
The cross-community Alliance Party is walking a tightrope between having a really good night or a very disappointing one.
The world, as UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres recently warned, is “teetering on a planetary tightrope.
In 1861, as Herr Professor Cristophe, he performed on the tightrope at the Theatre Royal, in Malop Street.
The choreographer’s work, too, exists on this tightrope: her latest show is an immersive dance party about domestic violence.
The Fed is walking a tightrope of slowing inflation and trying to prevent further damage to our economy.
I was a brace-faced, greasy-haired 12-year-old who navigated social situations like I was walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls.
Rovers captain has started every Championship match this season but is now walking a disciplinary tightrope for the next 12 games.
The painting he's showing me at home features a man in a martial arts uniform walking a tightrope over a mountain of human skulls.
Officials in Bellevue and around the world are walking a tightrope as they respond to the coronavirus pandemic in the digital age.
With two metas running side by side, it will be a tightrope act for Riot to keep them both balanced.
It’s a tricky tightrope to traverse, one that Emerson Hart is only partially successful navigating.
Banks went to star in the children's series Tightrope (1972) (made by the same team behind Timeslip) and The Georgian House (1976).
Even in the recovery phase, delicately walks a perilous tightrope and arrives on the other side as the masterpiece of Perry’s career.
Brehm describes how Colbert walks a tightrope of poking fun without deriding the church he loves.
Common combinations with tightrope
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the tightrope 14×
- walking tightrope 13×
- tightrope between 10×
- on tightrope 10×
- tightrope of 8×
- tightrope walk 7×
- tightrope and 4×
- that tightrope 4×
- walk tightrope 4×
- diplomatic tightrope 3×
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The 20 examples on this page contain the complete word tightrope. Duplicate, incomplete, unusually short and technically noisy sentences are removed automatically. The definition is sourced from Wiktionary. Read more about our sources and checks on the About Voorbeeldzinnen.info page or see how to report a correction.