How to Use tightrope in a Sentence

tightrope

noun

• At the end of the video, Styles falls off the tightrope as the screen fades to black.
  — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
• To do stand-up is kind of this high-wire tightrope act, right?
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2019
• That stunt required Nik to walk across the Grand Canyon on a tightrope.
  — Peter Dawson, Houston Chronicle, 24 June 2019
• Ben Leeper earned a save with his tightrope work in the ninth.
  — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 18 Feb. 2020
• What might have been a romp for the Dodgers has turned into a tightrope walk.
  — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• Last week, the group tweeted their plans to walk the tightrope without a net.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2023
• The bullpen stumbled trying to walk a high-wire tightrope with a two-run lead.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2020
• Win the division and the Brewers can avoid the tightrope of the single wild-card play-in game.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 27 Sep. 2019
• That tightrope is a credit to Elias and his front office.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2024
• There is no way to bridge such a wide chasm, leaving the players to walk a tightrope over it.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• From the final buzzer, the Trojans’ return is a tightrope walk.
  — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2020
• To his credit, Walker knows how to walk quite a tightrope.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 4 Feb. 2020
• The Big Ten is walking a tightrope, planning for nine games over nine weeks.
  — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2020
• The Reds’ bullpen, however, couldn’t walk that same tightrope.
  — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 7 July 2022
• Baltimore has walked a tightrope to the top of the AFC North standings this season.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 9 Dec. 2021
• Harris also got hit from the left over her health care tightrope walk.
  — Juana Summers, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2019
• As expected, New York City will walk a tightrope so to speak, the edge of the band likely to skim the city for hours on end.
  — Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2022
• The thinnest of tightrope acts extends to team sponsorship, too.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2020
• The tightrope act included three walks and a hit batter.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
• Their plan worked — although always on a tightrope — for 13 years.
  — Alice Mannette, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• Those schools that freeze tuition are walking a tightrope.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 30 June 2020
• This will probably be a bit like walking the tightrope.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 8 Apr. 2020
• To get dressed is to walk a tightrope with ourselves at one end and everyone else on the other.
  — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
• At some point most days, the kids end up fighting, usually on the rubber mats by the tightrope where there’s the most room.
  — Joshua David Stein, Curbed, 8 July 2021
• On the most contentious issue -- voting laws in the wake of 2020 -- Kemp walks his highest tightrope.
  — Bill Barrow and Jeff Amy, ajc, 10 July 2021
• The Trump administration has had to walk the ethanol tightrope.
  — Miranda Green, The New Republic, 10 Feb. 2020
• The Grasshoppers coaching staff walked a tightrope with their pitchers all night long.
  — Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 3 Aug. 2020
• Those schools who freeze tuition are walking a tightrope.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2020
• In-game items like PS1 memory cards and DualShock controller cables double for platforms and tightropes to walk.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2024
• Advertisement That bolstered hopes the Federal Reserve can successfully walk its tightrope and get inflation down to its 2% target without a recession.
  — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024