How to Use white-knuckle in a Sentence

white-knuckle

adjective
  • 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
  • The only thing anyone seemingly can count on is this being a white-knuckle ride the whole way.
    Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2024
  • 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
  • Following a white-knuckle jailbreak, Cass made his way home to the planet Ferrix in time for his mother’s funeral, and managed to elude capture by the many factions hunting him.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 June 2024
  • Patrick Brammall, co-creator and star of breakout Australian comedy Colin from Accounts, is swapping laughs for a white-knuckle thriller.
    Peter White, Deadline, 1 July 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
  • If Star Wars represented childlike joy and rollicking adventure, Alien was a bleak and brutal meditation on white-knuckle suspense and gory body horror.
    Chris Nashawaty, WIRED, 30 July 2024
  • 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

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