How to Use white-knuckle in a Sentence

white-knuckle

adjective
  • Do not white-knuckle through this alone.
    — Lien De Pau, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • Be prepared to white-knuckle a lot of the process, but don’t be afraid to jump in.
    — Henry Chen, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
  • This all makes great set dressing for the races, which are white-knuckle intense.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 26 June 2026
  • This all makes great set dressing for the races, which are white-knuckle intense.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 23 June 2026
  • That ended a white-knuckle day of hockey.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 18 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • That’s not to say Moton hasn’t had to white-knuckle through some ailments last year.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Perhaps, if this movie’s focus were geared toward heady, white-knuckle thrills.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The Lakers will have to white-knuckle their way through the next few weeks without their two stars.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Your fun night out is suddenly about to become a wild, white-knuckle ride into the abyss.
    — Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Up in the stars, two brave souls white-knuckle their way around maneuvers that might doom them as easily as save them.
    — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 28 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Needless to say, the prototypes got a bit bent and the pilots ended up in full white-knuckle mode.
    — New Atlas, 8 Jan. 2026
  • But the Kings held on despite turning the blowout into a white-knuckle finish.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 28 Jan. 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
  • In the video after his thrilling run, Flav can be heard howling in delight at the white-knuckle ride down the icy shoot.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Wes Craven's white-knuckle thriller, now streaming on Netflix, turns 20 next month.
    — EW.com, 7 July 2025
  • Its story beats haven’t changed much, retaining the white-knuckle jump scares and looming dread of the original.
    — Aimee Hart, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Bigelow inserts a quasi-whodunit aspect into an already white-knuckle affair.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The final few minutes were white-knuckle basketball with the lead changing several times.
    — David Brandt, Chicago Tribune, 15 Apr. 2026
  • In Washington, the standoff is reaching a white-knuckle moment.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • The ferry arrived, and my husband, Rob, white-knuckled our suitcases onto the ship.
    — Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Highway 101 passes directly through town, and there are no switchbacks or white-knuckle coastal roads.
    — Audrey T. Williams, Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Zemeckis, meanwhile, balances the script's bigger questions with white-knuckle awe.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 May 2022
  • This film is a primal howl, a white-knuckle ride that explores the devastating fragility of the human condition.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 5 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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