Similar words: tight, tights, uptight, tightly, tighten, trope, sit tight, airtight. Meaning: n. tightly stretched rope or wire on which acrobats perform high above the ground.
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1 One of the acrobats who walked the tightrope at the circus did it blindfolded.
2 School administrators walk a tightrope between the demands of the community and the realities of how children really behave.
3 I feel as though I'm walking a tightrope between success and failure.
4 Many manufacturers have to walk a tightrope between pricing their goods too high and not selling them, and pricing them low and losing money.
5 The government is walking a difficult tightrope in wanting to reduce interest rates without pushing up inflation.
6 But Blondin had made the horizontal tightrope his own.
7 United lived on a tightrope at times.
8 Gielgud, seizing a parasol,[www.Sentencedict.com] crosses by tightrope.
9 It's like walking a tightrope in size-15 wellies.
10 Skinny tightrope walkers, feet weighted with fishing sinkers, traversed the high wire.
11 The Profitboss walks a tightrope between research and risk, between research and opportunity.
12 She sometimes felt she was walking a tightrope, wanting to be friendly with Therese, and yet terrified of upsetting Karl.
13 To become foot-sure and fearless in such tightrope bridge crossings, he practiced on easier ones a few inches above the ground.
14 I walked a tightrope between two realities to both of which I felt seriously committed.
15 He was constantly aware of the tightrope he was walking-being a major player among the elite but not really one of them.
16 And went back up and walked the tightrope to the west bank 31.
17 He danced across a tightrope as easily as he strolled down a coun-try lane.
18 The Profitboss knows how to walk that high-hung tightrope between work and pleasure, between the office and home.
19 The audience held its / their breath as the acrobat walked along the tightrope.
20 The drums rolled as the acrobat walked along the tightrope.
21 There were gasps of horror from the spectators as he fell off the tightrope.
22 I was drawing these pictures in my head of walking across a tightrope and falling into a chasm.
23 But he's been doing very well at it despite having to learn terrifying new skills, like walking a tightrope.
24 Meditation for a leap into the unknown At great turning points, life quivers precariously on the tightrope of obedience.
25 The rare person who on the rare occasion wants to be wholly neutral has to walk a tightrope.
26 Only London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard seems to grow, still balancing on a tightrope - a difficult and dangerous trick.
27 All organizations especially those that are growing, walk a tightrope between stability and change, tradition and revision.
28 Last week, it seemed Dole was coming precariously close to falling off that tightrope.
29 In the old days he had been front and center on tightrope and trapeze.
30 In the old days he could've swallowed a six-pack in half an hour and then gone out and walked a tightrope.
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