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Definition of heart-stopping in English: heart-stoppingadjective Full of suspense or excitement; thrilling. a five-minute burst of heart-stopping action Example sentencesExamples - There are heart-stopping ballads, squeezebox folk songs and all the vamping jazz and Latin dance tunes you would have heard so close to the Mexican border.
- After waiting so long for one genuine piece of heart-stopping action to awaken the masses from their slumber, chances arrived incessantly.
- I would go into a terrible, heart-stopping panic which would increase when I suddenly realised that the exams actually started today.
- Reach for the thesaurus and look up ‘drama’ and every last word you find will be needed to do justice to this heart-stopping occasion.
- Sean ran three heart-stopping races on Saturday and Sunday, which earned him a fourth place Certificate of Merit in the final.
- At first I thought we had a 50-50 chance and after four or five heart-stopping moments we were chuffed to bits.
- During our visit, a heart-stopping 32 ounce steak appeared on the specials board, but I couldn't tell if this was a challenge or a threat.
- The heart-stopping chases and elaborate killings are the main assets of the film along with a couple of new entries in the dinosaur catalog.
- Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity.
- And also, an actor who was on that flight somehow finds humor during the heart-stopping flight.
- Then with 50m to go, he would edge ahead for a heart-stopping victory.
- It was the longest women's final in Wimbledon history and one of the most heart-stopping epics the old place has seen in a century and more.
- It was challenging, it was exciting, it was heart-stopping at moments and for me it brought a different kind of thought process which I really enjoyed.
- The ride demands more courage - all you can think about is the speed and the heart-stopping near-vertical drop into the pool.
- There are many moments of heart-stopping beauty in this staged narrative of an Iraqi family the Australian government almost destroyed.
- The final twelve, heart-stopping minutes proved to be scoreless.
- So here's one more heart-stopping quote for them, too.
- A couple of days ago, I experienced a real heart-stopping moment.
- For those who have not yet felt that heart-stopping thrill of the first sustained pull of a strong wild salmon - believe me it is simply superb.
- An uneven album at best, there seems to be a schizophrenia at work, forcing them from heart-stopping beauty to clod-hopping stupidity and back again.
Derivativesnoun The Adriatic coast is hipper than ever, but still, the £4m price tag is a heart-stopper. Example sentencesExamples - This tells me that low-volume, high-quality heart-stoppers sell for a premium.
- Tale is ingenuously layered, infused with creepiness and spiked with a couple of real heart-stoppers.
- Apart from that minor heart-stopper, we had a fantastic time on holiday in Boston.
- The gold may steal brochure headlines, but the kitchen is the real heart - and heart-stopper - of the Golden Temple.
adverb This unhappy situation unfolds in parallel to West Germany doing heart-stoppingly badly in the competition's early stages; then Matthias's dad softens and even takes his boy on a road trip to Switzerland. Example sentencesExamples - The opening is as heart-stoppingly harrowing as any war diary, with the author caught in a landscape of overwhelming panic and loss.
- You can see it in the rancor that both parties displayed during the heart-stoppingly close election and the long count that followed.
- English cities and towns can be heart-stoppingly beautiful, when viewed from a favourable angle - Cambridge springs to mind - but there are very few of them that can rival the splendour of Edinburgh.
- Five hours is a long drive no matter how heart-stoppingly beautiful the scenery and we are pathetically grateful when the wind blows us into the womb-like warmth of the restaurant vestibule.
Definition of heart-stopping in US English: heart-stoppingadjectivehɑrt ˈstɑpɪŋhärt ˈstäpiNG Thrilling; full of suspense. 令人激动的；惊险的；充满悬念的 a five-minute burst of heart-stopping action Example sentencesExamples - It was the longest women's final in Wimbledon history and one of the most heart-stopping epics the old place has seen in a century and more.
- At first I thought we had a 50-50 chance and after four or five heart-stopping moments we were chuffed to bits.
- Large packs of black matted mastiffs prowl the streets for scraps, occasionally breaking into fights of heart-stopping ferocity.
- There are many moments of heart-stopping beauty in this staged narrative of an Iraqi family the Australian government almost destroyed.
- After waiting so long for one genuine piece of heart-stopping action to awaken the masses from their slumber, chances arrived incessantly.
- An uneven album at best, there seems to be a schizophrenia at work, forcing them from heart-stopping beauty to clod-hopping stupidity and back again.
- So here's one more heart-stopping quote for them, too.
- During our visit, a heart-stopping 32 ounce steak appeared on the specials board, but I couldn't tell if this was a challenge or a threat.
- I would go into a terrible, heart-stopping panic which would increase when I suddenly realised that the exams actually started today.
- It was challenging, it was exciting, it was heart-stopping at moments and for me it brought a different kind of thought process which I really enjoyed.
- The final twelve, heart-stopping minutes proved to be scoreless.
- Then with 50m to go, he would edge ahead for a heart-stopping victory.
- The ride demands more courage - all you can think about is the speed and the heart-stopping near-vertical drop into the pool.
- There are heart-stopping ballads, squeezebox folk songs and all the vamping jazz and Latin dance tunes you would have heard so close to the Mexican border.
- For those who have not yet felt that heart-stopping thrill of the first sustained pull of a strong wild salmon - believe me it is simply superb.
- The heart-stopping chases and elaborate killings are the main assets of the film along with a couple of new entries in the dinosaur catalog.
- Sean ran three heart-stopping races on Saturday and Sunday, which earned him a fourth place Certificate of Merit in the final.
- And also, an actor who was on that flight somehow finds humor during the heart-stopping flight.
- A couple of days ago, I experienced a real heart-stopping moment.
- Reach for the thesaurus and look up ‘drama’ and every last word you find will be needed to do justice to this heart-stopping occasion.
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