How to Use high-wire in a Sentence

high-wire

adjective
  • And lately, that high-wire has started to feel more like a thread.
    — Lisa Christen, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025
  • But hanging art on a wall and inviting the public in for free is a high-wire act.
    — Michelle Weber, Longreads, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Even if you guys are on the same page, talking about politics is a high-wire act.
    — Julia Ries, SELF, 16 Sep. 2024
  • The Bruins had taken their high-wire act to new heights while improving to 8-0.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Two innings after Woods Richardson’s high-wire escape, the Twins got on the board first.
    — Dan Hayes, The Athletic, 21 Aug. 2024
  • Winston’s high-wire act means the Giants have a puncher’s chance to win if the backup enters.
    — Ben Standig, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The music, as Spiegelman notes, has to be tuned into, tracked among the acrobatics of wordage, the high-wire leaps of thought.
    — Carol Muske-Dukes, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Enter Email Sign Up His high-wire legal act hit a new challenge this month.
    — Jonathan Swan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Getting to March this year will be more than half the fun, if Hurley, his Oura Ring and the fans’ psyche can take a few more weeks of this high-wire act.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Still, Tester is thought to be facing tough odds despite his past successful high-wire acts.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This episode is another proof point that the high-wire glitz of previous seasons is no longer the show’s focus.
    — Nina Li Coomes, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2024
  • But Weaver and the Reds bullpen pulled off the high-wire act most of the rest of the way, escaping sizable jams in the fourth, fifth and eighth innings – before Salvador Perez’s tying shot in the ninth.
    — Gordon Wittenmyer, The Enquirer, 13 June 2023
  • That’s the high-wire act that creator Jesse Armstrong, whose previous shows were comedies, managed to pull off.
    — Rachel Dodes, ELLE, 31 May 2023
  • Taking on Trump could be a high-wire act considering that DeSantis would need to win over at least a slice of his diehard base.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 16 May 2023
  • That’s a high-wire act to pull off, to keep the momentum going on a TV series, especially in this climate.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Then there’s the movie’s ringmaster, Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the movie with partner Noah Baumbach and directed the high-wire act.
    — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Erivo’s comedic high-wire act is the pièce de résistance of the Season 2 premiere, which finds Charlie drawn into the siblings’ lethal double-dealing.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
  • And producers, who face a financial high-wire act even in the best of times, have made some not-to-subtle calculations.
    — Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2024
  • Philippe Petit, the high-wire artist, had wanted to visit Edge, the hundredth-floor observation deck at Hudson Yards, for a long time.
    — Bob Morris, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Sure, there’s the high-wire walk/weekly escape acts of Kansas City’s regular season.
    — Hannah Vanbiber, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • What would normally be a routine Fed meeting is shaping up to be a high-wire balancing act.
    — Alexander Kurov, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The book’s constant mimicry of disposable digital expression makes for a tonal high-wire act.
    — Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
  • Reds reliever Fernando Cruz completed a high-wire act in the 10th inning by entering the game with two outs and the bases loaded.
    — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 3 June 2023
  • The result is a madcap high-wire act of choreography and comedy.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Each of the five leaders is engaged in a high-wire act, trying to pursue reforms without triggering a backlash.
    — Judd Devermont, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
  • This is a high-wire act for both Brazilian democracy and the climate that requires uncommon balance.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 25 May 2023
  • Thomas rejected the high-wire act that girls who have wanted to make progress have been told to perfect—that dance between using girlhood as a shield and turning it into a weapon.
    — Mattie Kahn, Glamour, 14 June 2023
  • The director also doubles back and tells Townsend’s story, connecting the pointed impermanence of the artist’s work with the high-wire nature of the secret mall apartment.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Could our patron saint of modern cinematic womanhood pull off this high-wire act?
    — Lisa Wong MacAbasco, Vogue, 18 July 2023
  • Each show is a feat of improvisation, and part of the appeal is witnessing this high-wire act alongside fellow travelers.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 22 June 2024

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