tightrope walking
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.72 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Most of the novelties, including the aerial jumpings and the tightrope walkings, had been tapering off in preparation for this exciting final event."
- "The extant verses deal with the usual subject of love, cup-bearers, songs, dances, music; there is no shortage of tightrope walkings, virtuosity and artificiality typical of Arab poetry."
- "Mary Ann could witness the intricacies, the pitfalls, and the tightrope walkings of marriage, and even handle them, but not Michael."
- "Each show targets some facet of adult life that richly deserves to be questioned, such as sport hunting with assault weapons. Those are hot-button topics for adults, and the show’s writing is a miracle of tightrope walking in its handling of them."
- "I have failed to find a single article in your newspaper about the "tightrope walking" that the Swiss were forced to perform between the Allies and the Nazis in order to survive as a country and avoid invasion."