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white-knuckle
[ hwahyt-nuhk-uhl, wahyt- ]
adjective
- causing fear, apprehension, or panic:
The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- experiencing fear, terror, or apprehension:
The white-knuckle crowd loved that director's newest horror movie.
white-knuckle
adjective
- causing or experiencing fear or anxiety
a white-knuckle ride
Example Sentences
President Donald Trump is sweating his party's white-knuckle grip on the House of Representatives, and he's pulled yet another Cabinet nomination to avoid making the GOP's legislative troubles any worse.
It’s kind of a white-knuckle ride.
So while “Juror #2†is no white-knuckle movie, it is a slow-squeeze conscience trap, as well as a keen prism through which to stress-test our own ethics.
Compared with Pacino’s outraged and outrageous Cohn, spraying a vulgarian’s spittle across Nichols’ magisterial “Angels,†Strong’s performance is a model of white-knuckle control, swaggering when Cohn exerts his power, wilting when he can’t.
It was a thrilling, exhausting, white-knuckle ride.
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