How to Use white-knuckle in a Sentence

white-knuckle

adjective
Definition of white-knucklenext
  • At eight episodes, of course, the show can’t possibly be the white-knuckle trip that the film was.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 4 May 2024
  • Short circuit that part of the pitching process and the whole thing can become a white-knuckle ride.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Zion Adventures has had climbers as young as 5 and as old as 74 white-knuckle their way along the routes.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • That didn’t bode well for a white-knuckle descender like me.
    — Lori Rackl, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2023
  • But the Kings held on despite turning the blowout into a white-knuckle finish.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 2024
  • The crash itself is a white-knuckle sequence in which every shudder of the aircraft is felt.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Your fun night out is suddenly about to become a wild, white-knuckle ride into the abyss.
    — Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The only thing anyone seemingly can count on is this being a white-knuckle ride the whole way.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2024
  • And part of that feeling, for him, is the white-knuckle uncertainty that comes with every project.
    — Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, 5 July 2023
  • Perhaps, if this movie’s focus were geared toward heady, white-knuckle thrills.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • Moreover, Wisconsin’s offensive struggles tend to hurt the team when it’s involved in one of those white-knuckle games.
    — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Travel booking platform Omio has compiled a guide to the white-knuckle sport and its magical apres scene for those who want to be eco and wallet-conscious this year.
    — Rebecca Ann Hughes, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • In Washington, the standoff is reaching a white-knuckle moment.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • Thus, the film’s white-knuckle finale boils down to a miniscule misstep, one that reveals how espionage is vulnerable even to a grain of sand.
    — Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 5 Apr. 2024
  • There were periods of white-knuckle pack racing, three-wide passes and jaw-dropping bravery as drivers were unafraid of Texas’ high speeds.
    — Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Few put together an action scene with jaw-dropping gunfights and white-knuckle crashes that energize all the senses like Miller.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
  • Following a white-knuckle jailbreak, Cass made his way home to the planet Ferrix in time for his mother’s funeral, and managed to elude capture by the many factions hunting him.
    — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 25 June 2024
  • Patrick Brammall, co-creator and star of breakout Australian comedy Colin from Accounts, is swapping laughs for a white-knuckle thriller.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 1 July 2024
  • Zemeckis, meanwhile, balances the script's bigger questions with white-knuckle awe.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Yes, even homely, lonely graupel — the soft hail that coated parts of Interstate 8 last winter, making driving a white-knuckle affair.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2023
  • What’s lost, during lapses like that, are the moments that inspire awe, replaced by a kind of white-knuckle anxiety in, for example, the grand chorus that closes the oratorio’s first part.
    — Joshua Barone, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The director goes full white-knuckle thrill ride in its sequel, orchestrating a glorious sandworm riding sequence that took 44 days to shoot.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 4 Mar. 2024
  • And Jones delivers plenty of thrills as our heroes cover 435 miles in five-plus days, peaking in a zip-line misadventure packed with white-knuckle antics and tension-cutting quips.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024
  • While the sequel mainly sticks to the original's successful formula, the second (and better) Apollo/Rocky fight is a fantastic, white-knuckle climax.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Rising to prominence in the Seventies, Friedkin came to specialize in gritty, white-knuckle thrillers, often shot through with a healthy dose of documentary-style realism.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The innovative filmmaker’s tale about a rocket scientist (Matthew McConaughey) who jumps through wormholes to save mankind is more than white-knuckle science fiction.
    — Deanna Janes, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 May 2023
  • Vaillant weaves together the story of the tar sands industry, the impacts of climate change and the white-knuckle evacuation of the town into a frightening wake-up call of our new reality concerning wildfires.
    — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Rising to prominence in the Seventies, Friedkin came to specialize in gritty, white-knuckle thrillers, often shot through with a healthy dose of practically documentary-style realism.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Will the white-knuckle experience of surviving Silicon Valley Bank’s meltdown change how companies—especially young private companies—behave?
    — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 24 Mar. 2023

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