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
• Both Kate and Rémi’s careers have criss-crossed the high-wire of high fashion.
  — Angelina Villa-Clarke, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
• Even if you guys are on the same page, talking about politics is a high-wire act.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 16 Sep. 2024
• Vazquez was a high-wire act – just like the rest of her outing – with Foxboro constantly putting traffic on the bases.
  — Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 12 June 2025
• This high-wire act would have gone for naught if Routh had not so capably filled the Man of Steel’s costume.
  — Kirk Honeycutt, HollywoodReporter, 7 July 2025
• 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
• But behind those headlines and high-wire acts is the quiet, steady presence of managers.
  — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 9 May 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
• As for his own future — the high-wire act that is modern-day movie-execing — De Luca doesn’t flinch.
  — Peter Kiefer, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2025
• 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
• Any shift on the key issues could topple the high-wire act needed to please House and Senate Republicans.
  — Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 7 June 2025
• 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
• Five actors will play all of the roles in a fast-paced, quick-change high-wire act.
  — Abby Hamblin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
• Performers normally seen on bigger local stages have joined the high-wire act that is an Ochre House show.
  — Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
• Expect more high-wire feats in this one.
  — Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2026