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a. (alternative spelling of heartstopping English)
Usage examples of "heart-stopping".
In that heart-stopping ululation of the blood trill, the invocation to violence that the heart of the African warrior cannot resist, the sound struck the jostling press of Gallas like a whip, stroke and their bodies convulsed and their voices rose in an answering blood roar.
For one heart-stopping second Trav turned his face and brushed his lips across her palm.
That much, for a second, and that only, Vallery saw: then with heart-stopping shock, with physically sickening abruptness, he saw something else again: the burning sea was alive with swimming, struggling men.
For one heart-stopping moment I thought they were all dead or dying, mown down in swathes by that stuttering machine gun, then I saw mr.
For a heart-stopping moment Reidel thought the woman was Cleta, then saw the unfamiliar face beneath the dark hair and stopped, sick with disappointment.
He moved quietly to the edge of the nearest promontory, then let himself drop into nothingness, counting to twenty through a heart-stopping freefall before he spread his arms and felt the air lift him.
We hesitated, at that tense point when the gambler at the craps table breathes on the dice, then clutches them in his hand for a single, heart-stopping instant, asking for the win.
His eyes dropped to the soft mounds as they moved, lingered for a long, heart-stopping moment, and when he finally looked back up to her face, black fury had filled his gaze.
Huple was a good pilot, Yossarian knew, but he was only a kid, and Dobbs had no confidence in him, either, and wrested the controls away without warning after they had dropped their bombs, going berserk in mid-air and tipping the plane over into that heart-stopping, ear-splitting, indescribably petrifying fatal dive that tore Yossarian's earphones free from their connection and hung him helplessly to the roof of the nose by the top of his head.
For a heart-stopping moment there was nothing, and then the pilot chute unfolded, dragging out the main sail.