high wire

Example Sentences

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Of course, one problem with walking a high wire is that your opponent can try to knock you off.

From Los Angeles Times

“It was so eloquent. Like watching a trapeze artist on a high wire, poised gracefully in midair.”

From Los Angeles Times

AP Film Writer Jake Coyle called it a “high wire act of a biopic” in his review, favoring the experimental black-and-white beginning over the later years, which focuses more on the increasingly complex family dynamics.

From Seattle Times

A new high wire act is running downtown, where Teatro ZinZanni has settled into its current home at Lotte Hotel’s Sanctuary Ballroom.

From Seattle Times

Three years later, German adventurer Alexander Schulz become the first person to walk to and from the summit of the Old Man of Hoy on a high wire.

From BBC