tightrope-walk
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.72 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To take a perilous course between alternatives.
noun
Example Sentences
- "It was just 78 years ago that […] [Charles] Blondin tightrope-walked across the Niagara, […]"
- "An East German circus artist tightrope-walked across a switched-off power line that had been left from pre-wall days."
- "In Santa Monica, a daredevil tightrope-walks across a swing set."
- "As for the Logan siblings, Kendall likens his latest showdown with his father to “a tightrope walk on a straight razor ... Five-hundred-foot reputational drop.” / “Why is that making you smile? That shouldn’t make you smile,” Roman replies. “Who likes tightrope-walking on a straight razor?”"
- "They clambered over walls and rocks, crossed water (with blowup alligators lurking below) on a zip line, climbed a muddy cargo net out of a water pit and tightrope-walked across logs."
- "In his speech tonight, McCain, who has backed [George Walker] Bush on such controversial issues as tax cuts and the Iraq war, will have to tightrope-walk his way between saluting Bush and making it clear that he’s something different, that he represents change."