Sentence examples for on that rope from inspiring English sources

So now, forty years later, I have this terror that I am going to be struggling on that rope IN FRONT OF THOUSANDS ON THE PLAYING FIELD OF A STADIUM.

I'd cut the ads for movies like The Exorcist and Rollerball and paste them in a book; and the image of Richard Rowntree swinging on that rope and firing this gun totally did it for me.

They all said later it was the rope-a-dope — he laid on that rope and I, like a dope, punched myself out.

"Going upside down on that rope is not something you wake up and say, I'm gonna go at it," Soto said, noting it took four months of building calluses and courage.

We've moved away from the intense physicality of her younger years to the emotional challenges of a girl walking on that swinging, teetering rope bridge to tween-dom.

On busy nights, undiscovered comics like me often worked the entry door to the main room, and one crazy night between sets, I was on "the rope," that magical divide between the bar and the stage.

Handstroke (a pull on the rope that rotates the bell almost 360° to the other balance position) alternates with backstroke (a pull on the rope that returns the bell to its initial position), two successive revolutions constituting a whole pull.

Steven Hull, "Never Again Sharpen Your Teeth on the Rope That Holds You Safely to Shore," at Rosamund Felsen Gallery.

In the last few days, reports suggested that Mr. Obama was on the ropes and that Mrs. Clinton's camp had been reinvigorated.

This year's contenders included two films, "Buena Vista Social Club" and "On the Ropes," that were widely released in theaters.

Looking as though he had just won the lottery, SHAQUAN DELEON, 10, was hoisted high above the Hudson River in a harnessed chair as his temporary shipmates tugged on the ropes that bound him to their schooner.