Words similar to tightrope

Example sentences for: tightrope

How can you use “tightrope” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In the climax, the pair must walk a fraying tightrope between the twin towers of the world's tallest building (in Kuala Lumpur) while millennium fireworks explode around them.
Its royal House of Savoy walked a diplomatic tightrope between the rivalries of France, Switzerland, Spain, and the German emperors until the fall of Napoleon.
The degree to which they show their ambivalence shows their ability to walk the trendy pseudo-liberal tightrope of PC-ness.
(To read Slate's take on Bradley's tightrope walk on vouchers, click here.)
Apparently, some rescue workers took an adjacent elevator to the place where the man and woman were stuck, took out the side panels that separated the two elevator cars, then asked them to make a tightrope walk across a narrow beam that spanned the shaft between the two elevators, as if these two poor knee-knocking souls were suddenly the second coming of Karl Wallenda.