How to Use white-knuckle in a Sentence

white-knuckle

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• At eight episodes, of course, the show can’t possibly be the white-knuckle trip that the film was.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
• Short circuit that part of the pitching process and the whole thing can become a white-knuckle ride.
  — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
• Zion Adventures has had climbers as young as 5 and as old as 74 white-knuckle their way along the routes.
  — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
• That didn’t bode well for a white-knuckle descender like me.
  — Lori Rackl, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
• But the Kings held on despite turning the blowout into a white-knuckle finish.
  — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 2024
• The crash itself is a white-knuckle sequence in which every shudder of the aircraft is felt.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
• Your fun night out is suddenly about to become a wild, white-knuckle ride into the abyss.
  — Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
• And part of that feeling, for him, is the white-knuckle uncertainty that comes with every project.
  — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 5 July 2023
• Perhaps, if this movie’s focus were geared toward heady, white-knuckle thrills.
  — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• Moreover, Wisconsin’s offensive struggles tend to hurt the team when it’s involved in one of those white-knuckle games.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2023
• Travel booking platform Omio has compiled a guide to the white-knuckle sport and its magical apres scene for those who want to be eco and wallet-conscious this year.
  — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• In Washington, the standoff is reaching a white-knuckle moment.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• Thus, the film’s white-knuckle finale boils down to a miniscule misstep, one that reveals how espionage is vulnerable even to a grain of sand.
  — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2024
• There were periods of white-knuckle pack racing, three-wide passes and jaw-dropping bravery as drivers were unafraid of Texas’ high speeds.
  — Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2023
• Few put together an action scene with jaw-dropping gunfights and white-knuckle crashes that energize all the senses like Miller.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
• Zemeckis, meanwhile, balances the script's bigger questions with white-knuckle awe.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
• Yes, even homely, lonely graupel — the soft hail that coated parts of Interstate 8 last winter, making driving a white-knuckle affair.
  — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2023
• What’s lost, during lapses like that, are the moments that inspire awe, replaced by a kind of white-knuckle anxiety in, for example, the grand chorus that closes the oratorio’s first part.
  — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• The director goes full white-knuckle thrill ride in its sequel, orchestrating a glorious sandworm riding sequence that took 44 days to shoot.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
• And Jones delivers plenty of thrills as our heroes cover 435 miles in five-plus days, peaking in a zip-line misadventure packed with white-knuckle antics and tension-cutting quips.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
• While the sequel mainly sticks to the original's successful formula, the second (and better) Apollo/Rocky fight is a fantastic, white-knuckle climax.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
• Rising to prominence in the Seventies, Friedkin came to specialize in gritty, white-knuckle thrillers, often shot through with a healthy dose of documentary-style realism.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
• The innovative filmmaker’s tale about a rocket scientist (Matthew McConaughey) who jumps through wormholes to save mankind is more than white-knuckle science fiction.
  — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023
• Vaillant weaves together the story of the tar sands industry, the impacts of climate change and the white-knuckle evacuation of the town into a frightening wake-up call of our new reality concerning wildfires.
  — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
• Rising to prominence in the Seventies, Friedkin came to specialize in gritty, white-knuckle thrillers, often shot through with a healthy dose of practically documentary-style realism.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
• Will the white-knuckle experience of surviving Silicon Valley Bank’s meltdown change how companies—especially young private companies—behave?
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Aug 2024