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  • noun Plural form of trapeze.

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Examples

  • In an earlier article I wrote on this topic, I quoted Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy, who referred to this experience as something akin to being in between trapezes, when the one you just released is long behind and next one isn't even in sight.

    Dr. Judith Rich: Braving The Storms of Change Dr. Judith Rich 2011

  • Have we really gotten to a point where performers need to transform themselves into trapezes artists in order to appease their fans?

    Oh, Kanye! 2009

  • It looks like a stab at Cirque du Soleil on a too-small stage and the dancers more concerned about personal safety than expressive movement, but they swing in and out on trapezes, whetting our appetite for adding some kind of aerial challenge to the competition.

    'Dancing with Stars' airs Boo-Gate video, gives Michael Bolton the boot Lisa de Moraes 2010

  • The British director's resume, which includes the 1963 film "Lord of the Flies," is dominated by stage productions deemed radical for their times, like "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1970, where he ditched the woodland setting for a white-box set with actors on circus trapezes and stilts.

    A Mozart Fable, Stripped Down Ellen Gamerman 2011

  • His intricate, jewel-like creations, so delicate that they're plated with tweezers, came to the table on prongs, pins and antennae or were hung from small metal trapezes.

    Taking The Heat Moira Hodgson 2011

  • In an earlier article I wrote on this topic, I quoted Marilyn Ferguson, author of The Aquarian Conspiracy, who referred to this experience as something akin to being in between trapezes, when the one you just released is long behind and next one isn't even in sight.

    Dr. Judith Rich: Braving The Storms of Change Dr. Judith Rich 2011

  • I'd like to get my doctorate in the unmentionables: circus acts, flying trapezes.

    Bed Robert Vaughan 2011

  • Although I've been told that trapezes are out and figure-conscious dresses are in, when it comes to cute, there are always exceptions.

    Ysolt Usigan: Fun With Vintage: I Traveled, I Shopped, and I Put Together Some Cheap Outfits 2010

  • Like the soldier standing erect in a gaze which holds no promise of immortality, you wilt in the sun against her gaze knowing the heat of the day will bring slumber when night falls and when the moon trapezes across the tapestry of your skin you shine

    Nancy Chuda: Oh Mighty Tree 2010

  • Needless to say, armed men in suits coming looking for him, and it is Hey Rube! with superpowers, guns, trapezes and shepherds.

    Superhero Prose Fiction: Psi-Man - 1 Mind-Force Warrior Blue Tyson 2008

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