trapeze
Example Sentences
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“I’ve never been a natural, all I do is try, try, try; I’m still on that trapeze, I’m still trying everything to keep you looking at me. ’
From Washington Post
There was a trapeze school on the block that once held the top-secret facility.
From Washington Post
They live for decades, mate for life and love to play, whirling like trapeze artists on a wire.
From New York Times
For a writer, eschewing the dramatic guardrails that plot and high stakes provide is a bit like a trapeze artist working without a net.
From Los Angeles Times
Gamboling in its clinical white galleries, life-size polar bears, smothered in Day-Glo plumage, play tag, dance, hang on trapezes, scratch itches, and generally introduce raucous joy to the hushed precinct.
From New York Times
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