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high wire

noun

  1. a tightrope stretched very high above the ground.


high wire

noun

  1. a tightrope stretched high in the air for balancing acts


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Word History and Origins

Origin of high wire1

First recorded in 1880–85

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Example Sentences

Treating any infectious disease is a high wire act—doctors must balance the risks and benefits of therapies with the risks of the disease.

From Time

That Elgort executes the high-wire act so flawlessly is probably owed to the fact that he shares some of the same qualities.

All the while, FDR was performing a political high-wire act at home.

These risks and stylistic choices are no literary high-wire act.

Nevertheless, many boxers find it hard to walk away from the high wire act of high stakes professional boxing.

Ghesquière almost always succeeds with his high-wire balancing act of pop culture, historic art, and modern technology.

At the sound of the first shot, Black Hood had climbed to the top of the high wire fence to leap into the factory grounds.

The kennel and runs were built near the carriage barn, the runs, twenty by one hundred feet, enclosed with high wire netting.

Note the old-fashioned high wire fender, the heavy plush curtains, and elaborate rosewood furniture.

The benches were carpeted with straw and were divided off by high wire partitions into compartments about three feet in area.

There it was, just ahead, a high wire fence, the strands barbed and strung taut on steel poles.

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