Sentence examples for walk a tight from inspiring English sources

The banks, he said, have "to walk a tight rope".

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.

I walk a tight path between families that are sitting around the head stones of loved ones.

But if the person wants to learn to walk a tight rope, he will gradually develop that skill.

He sees a photo in a magazine for the construction of the Twin Towers in NYC and gets the inspiration to walk a tight rope connecting the two buildings.

Can the Chinese walk a tight rope on formal neutrality as not to trigger a confrontation with the West?

Dave Barry, Carl Hiaasen, Brad Meltzer, Billy Corben and Leonard Pitts are commentators who walk-a-tight-rope between keeping-Miami-honest and perpetuating negativity.

As a former street boy and amateur filmmaker from Kenya, I walk a tight-rope trying to balance the portrayal of courage in the face of despair as experienced by many homeless street children in Nairobi.

The story of the forced sale of 60% of the shares and Jose's eventual departure in March 1976 is recounted in detail in his autobiography Walking a Tight Rope (1987).

Particularly fun is a sequence where he walks a tight wire while being attacked by a legion of angry monkeys.

"This is live television, you're walking a tight rope with no net... juggling," Tracy Morgan told NBCUniversal Direct in the video above.