white knuckle

Example Sentences

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Like Stenmark, she’s foremost a wizard at twisting through gates in slalom and giant slalom, where she’s collected the bulk of her wins, but Shiffrin’s also shown unprecedented range, winning more than a handful of races in the white-knuckle speed disciplines of super-G and downhill.

From The Wall Street Journal

So, in a new year, while we’re still holding onto resolutions with a white-knuckle grip, these are a few things that film culture should leave on the cutting room floor.

From Salon

If England's crushing defeat in the first Test was a white-knuckle helter-skelter, this opening day in Brisbane was a titanic struggle and not for the faint-hearted.

From BBC

“We view this as a short-lived white-knuckle moment for tech stocks,” Wedbush analysts, led by Dan Ives, said in a note Sunday, adding that they still expect the sector to rally as much as 10% more before year’s end.

From MarketWatch

Perched 8,750 feet up in a box canyon in the Colorado Rockies, it’s reachable only by twisting roads or a white-knuckle drop into one of the nation’s highest airports.

From Los Angeles Times