How to Use tightrope in a Sentence

tightrope

noun
  • To do stand-up is kind of this high-wire tightrope act, right?
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • And that is the tightrope the club have chosen to walk.
    — Beren Cross, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The tightrope was a flat road to me, the drop was never there.
    — Literary Hub, 15 June 2026
  • Here’s what Lowe told me about walking that tightrope.
    — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Perched on that tightrope, Glasnow would not look down.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Ben Leeper earned a save with his tightrope work in the ninth.
    — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Harris also got hit from the left over her health care tightrope walk.
    — Juana Summers, Anchorage Daily News, 29 July 2019
  • At the end of the video, Styles falls off the tightrope as the screen fades to black.
    — Jack Irvin, Peoplemag, 19 July 2023
  • There are so many performances in the film that walk tricky tonal tightropes.
    — William Earl, Variety, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Last week, the group tweeted their plans to walk the tightrope without a net.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2023
  • What might have been a romp for the Dodgers has turned into a tightrope walk.
    — Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2022
  • The bullpen stumbled trying to walk a high-wire tightrope with a two-run lead.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 12 Aug. 2020
  • There is no way to bridge such a wide chasm, leaving the players to walk a tightrope over it.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2022
  • These guys at the surgery centers are walking on a tightrope with no safety net.
    — USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Scholars and journalists who study the right walk a tightrope.
    — Eric Herschthal, New Republic, 16 Jan. 2018
  • The thinnest of tightrope acts extends to team sponsorship, too.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 8 Aug. 2020
  • Their plan worked — although always on a tightrope — for 13 years.
    — Alice Mannette, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The Reds’ bullpen, however, couldn’t walk that same tightrope.
    — Bobby Nightengale, The Enquirer, 7 July 2022
  • Pushing myself out onto that tightrope has been thrilling.
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
  • The catheter was poking up from your cranium, its cord stretched back as taut as a tightrope.
    — Freep.com, 3 Nov. 2019
  • This tightrope is key to the experience.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Apr. 2026
  • What this means is that McConnell is still walking a tightrope.
    — Reihan Salam, Slate Magazine, 25 July 2017
  • The Rams are walking a tightrope between the present and the future.
    — Nate Atkins, New York Times, 20 May 2026
  • That stunt required Nik to walk across the Grand Canyon on a tightrope.
    — Peter Dawson, Houston Chronicle, 24 June 2019
  • From the final buzzer, the Trojans’ return is a tightrope walk.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2020
  • To get dressed is to walk a tightrope with ourselves at one end and everyone else on the other.
    — New York Times, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The Big Ten is walking a tightrope, planning for nine games over nine weeks.
    — Teddy Greenstein, chicagotribune.com, 24 Oct. 2020
  • McDaniels walks a tightrope every game in this regard.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 May 2026
  • The path to the stage on Thursday night, in hindsight, was less of a road and more of a tightrope.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Rookie lefty Tyler Samaniego walked the tightrope in a chaotic top of the eighth.
    — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 3 June 2026

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