Meaning of high-wire-walker | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C2]

Examples

“A high-wire-walker appeared on our streets last⟳ Thursday afternoon and performed some wonderful feats on a small wire cable stretched across Chestnut street, from the top of Leonard Smith’s block⟳, occupied by the Union Drug Store of Denniston, Reinardy & Co to the top of Wheeler’s three-story block⟳ over the Free Press⟳ office.”

“Fiercely protective and lavishly generous with his family and his close⟳ circle of friends, the soft-spoken Cablevision chairman pursues his goals with a self-made man’s stubbornness, a chess master’s patience and a high-wire-walker’s tolerance for risk⟳.”

“You never know⟳ if this might be the night that the high-wire-walker loses his balance and fails to recover⟳.”

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