How to Use balancing act in a Sentence

balancing act

noun
  • The Mets have quite the balancing act to pull off this week.
    Abbey Mastracco, Hartford Courant, 26 Sep. 2022
  • That was the main balancing act, both during the shoot and in the editing room.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2022
  • The host with the most was born Oct. 8 (and has a serious balancing act with his kids!).
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Gone are the days of doing a balancing act with a strainer and pot.
    cleveland, 29 June 2022
  • But as the season’s gone on, that’s become part of the balancing act.
    Giana Han, al, 8 Nov. 2020
  • The first three weeks of the season has been a balancing act for Pete DeBoer and the Stars.
    Dallas News, 3 Nov. 2022
  • For months, the practice has felt like a balancing act.
    Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2024
  • There’s this balancing act of being tied to a place and a people with that sort of past.
    Noah Davis, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 July 2023
  • This dressing is a balancing act of bright, salty and creamy.
    Anna Luisa Rodriguez, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2022
  • But the balancing act does not always come easy for the rapper.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 13 July 2022
  • But it’s been a balancing act for the Stars in striking the right chord on a nightly basis.
    Dallas News, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Older age can be a balancing act — how much to put out, how hard to try, how much to let go.
    Anne Lamott, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • Here, Branagh attempts to balance both, and its in that balancing act that the film misses the mark.
    Jeff Ewing, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The problem: The Fed has rarely nailed that balancing act before.
    Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2022
  • With Jimmy, that is the balancing act, with so much of his game played in attack mode.
    Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Jan. 2022
  • That’s quite the balancing act from Brunson and her team of writers.
    Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • What is the balancing act of getting those guys reps in practice?
    oregonlive, 28 July 2021
  • But overall the balancing act leaves the boundaries largely the same.
    Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2022
  • But that's a tricky balancing act, as the pandemic has shown.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Everything in life is a trade-off, and a balancing act.
    Annie Lane, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2023
  • My life used to be a balancing act of taking care of my children and working.
    Harriette Cole, The Mercury News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • In the best of times, doing no harm is a delicate balancing act.
    Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Ice cream is a balancing act of fat, sugar, water, and air.
    Matt Allyn, Popular Mechanics, 22 July 2021
  • Just as with her skin-care routine, Bock knows that work and self-care is also a balancing act.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 20 Apr. 2022
  • As much of a thriller as a comedy, this is a daring tonal balancing act and one of the best pieces of writing by White.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 11 Jan. 2021
  • The balancing act of the two storylines in Pachinko is impressive to watch.
    Emily Burack, Town & Country, 2 Apr. 2022
  • The Taliban takeover presents a tricky balancing act for Pakistan.
    Sabrina Toppa, Time, 18 Aug. 2021
  • In focusing on the mechanics of the balancing act, the film loses sight of the magic.
    Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2021
  • The Bills also have to perform that delicate balancing act of keeping players healthy while not losing momentum.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
  • The optimization of accuracy, performance and cost is a balancing act.
    Jeffrey Hammond, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024

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