How to Use touch and go in a Sentence

touch and go

adjective
  • Around the world, the state of the pandemic remains touch and go.
    Eve Sneider, Wired, 22 Jan. 2021
  • For a long time, the cat’s condition was touch and go, Brown said.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Dowdy recalled that the first of those fights was touch and go until the final vote.
    Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Then came a dozen days of touch and go in the clinic’s intensive care unit.
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
  • His shooting—while touch and go—offers just enough tug on the defense to keep things moving at all times.
    Ben Golliver and Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Its upper deck features a dining area big enough for 24 guests, a lounge area and a touch and go helipad.
    Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 13 Dec. 2021
  • Rates dropped as the Fed tried to shore up the economy, and rates stayed low for years as the economic recovery was often touch and go.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 Mar. 2022
  • While progress on the bill has at times been touch and go, the measure got a huge shot of momentum Friday when Republican Sens.
    John Fritze, baltimoresun.com, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Over the next couple weeks, there were touch and go moments, with Spackle winding up at a kill shelter and given only 24 hours to live.
    Susan Snyder, Philly.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Robbie Brady is expected to return to the squad after being described as 'touch and go' last week.
    SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • But hiring remains touch and go, and the unemployment rate notched up 0.1 percent to 5.9 percent.
    NBC News, 30 June 2021
  • The next three weeks in the hospital were gut-wrenching as Cano's condition remained touch and go, the family described.
    Emily Wilder, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2021
  • Daley Blind is touch and go for the game after recovering from an ankle problem.
    SI.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • It's been touch and go for most of the past two months, but the Braves' dynasty's other Jones did squeak through with 31 votes, 10 more than needed to maintain his eligibility.
    Jay Jaffe, SI.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • From the outside, Humm's accomplishments at Eleven Madison Park may seem to have been written in the stars, but the reality is that his early years in the kitchen were nightmarishly touch and go.
    Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The women gave birth while in medically induced comas, hooked up to ventilators, touch and go.
    Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2021
  • Another group pored over photos of the Tagsam after the touch and go, peering into its visible area (about 40 percent of the container) to estimate the volume of the debris inside.
    Chris Wright, Wired, 16 Dec. 2020
  • The title defense was touch and go on Monday , with South Korea trailing 3-2 against Uzbekistan with 15 minutes of the quarterfinal remaining.
    John Duerden, The Seattle Times, 27 Aug. 2018
  • Airbnb's financial health during the pandemic has been touch and go, at best, with business forecasts and interviews with company executives projecting an outlook from grim to apocalyptic.
    Rachel King, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2020

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