How To Use Funambulist In A Sentence
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It begins by referring to the “funambulist” at the heart of the novel.
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The bow (like the funambulist with the soles of his slippers fresh chalked) kept glancing on and off, till we hoped he would be off altogether and break his neck; and now the least harsh and grating of the cords snaps up in the fiddler's face, and a crude one is to be applied; and now -- but what is the use of pursuing the description?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.
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On August 7, 1974, French funambulist Petit, then 24, performed an astonishing high-wire act on a cable that he and his accomplices had surreptitiously rigged between the north and south towers of the World Trade Center.
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~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~ tchatche (tchatcher) = to chat; la brocante (f) = second-hand goods, fleamarket; le brocanteur (m) = seller at a fleamarket; portugais = Portugeuse; français = French; le funambulist = tightrope walker; le pichet = pitcher; le papier (m) à bulles = plastic wrap with "bubbles
Brocante / Antiques
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The masked funambulist Ginés de Pasamonte was disguised as the puppeteer Master Pedro?
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Travelling spectacle represents the oldest tradition with showmen, funambulists, conjuring tricks and acrobatics.
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That the scion of one of the oldest-established funambulist families in the land should come to this, should give up this gay life of sawdust, music, sequins, and romance to become a bean-counter.
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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This is the first and only edition of the first treatise about acrobats and funambulists.
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Jean Francois Gravelet, aka Charles Blondin, was considered to be one of the greatest funambulists (aerialists/tightrope-walkers) of all time.
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After all, both men were both expert funambulists, having risen to the rank of Black Belt in the Ringling Brothers School of Aerial Arts.
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Most of the banquets lasted 8-10 hours, with some pauses for a concert or a representation with clowns, circus and funambulists.
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Having looked in up, in retrospect “funambulist” sounds far more interesting than the common term [3] most people use.
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Having looked in up, in retrospect “funambulist” sounds far more interesting than the common term most people use.
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Other members of the cast of La Nouba include funambulists, dancers, tumblers, trapeze performers, equilibrists, clowns, actors, acrogymnasts, cyclists, musicians, vocalists and circus artists.
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Caillois looked to the funambulist for inspiration: he who ‘only succeeds if he is sure enough of himself to rely upon vertigo instead of trying to resist it.’
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It's an extraordinary quality bartenders have; a bar or, in this case, a lounge, can be quite adverse and hectic and easily become chaotic, yet bartenders - good bartenders, that is, go about the storm of hands and impatient glares and fidgets with a frightful calm, riding a teetering wire between cordiality of social obligation and quickness and precision of hand with the balance of a world-class funambulist.
Grant Whitney Harvey: Moonshadows: Part 1
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Then, from one generation the next, the Venetians battled the elements like funambulists walking a tight-rope.
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These acts, which range from trampoline performers to high wire funambulists, provide audience members with edge-of-your-seat excitement and pulse-pounding suspense.
