Sentence examples for tight wire from inspiring English sources

Put up a tight wire mesh fence about two feet tall to foil the mower and the rabbits.

Periodically, a yellow bus, its windows encased in tight wire mesh, cruises down a street, the blue uniformed riot policemen barely visible inside.

"Please understand, I am a deeply religious man," Dr. Shaikh said recently, professing his Islamic faith through the tight wire mesh of a jail cell.

Until the final thrilling moments, when a tight wire stands in for the bridge itself, the sheer expanse of the space often works against the drama and creates some difficulties with the sound.

Not so, notes the eminent usagist Jacques Barzun from his San Antonio house of intellect: "To walk a tight wire at the 14th floor level is perilous and not parlous.

Par Par's wife, Ma Win Ma, would travel four days by train for a 15-minute visit through a tight wire mesh, sometimes only to be met by the news that her visit had been cancelled.

Or his flip-flop might underscore the tight-wire act he has to tread to avoid trampling Smith's confidence.

Nothing has ever been quite so triumphal as the entrance into the arena of Con Colleano, Spanish tight-wire artist.

In the act, conceived as a playful homage to old-time show business, he leads two fleas calls Midge and Madge through chariot racing and tight-wire dancing, then shoots them out of a miniature cannon into a tiny Airstream trailer.

And that's a really delicate tight-wire act to try to walk.

At the airport in Tahiti, on the eve of a big break, she describes this pack as "a sea of tans, tattoos, testosterone and nerves stretched tight as wire".