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Meanings of cliff-hanging in anglès
(Of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense.
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Examples for "suspenseful"
Examples for "suspenseful"
1
But it's fun, it's an extra suspenseful element to it, Davis said.
2
It's suspenseful and adds an incredible sense of scale to the movie.
3
Well, we was robbed of a suspenseful episode up until this moment.
4
With great performances including from Andrea Riseborough, the suspenseful series will grip you.
5
How does his new, suspenseful novel compare with his much-loved music?
1
The king could affix a suspensive veto to the acts of the Cortes.
2
We are not to be allowed even a suspensive veto.
3
In 1768 Paucton conceived the idea of an apparatus with two screws, suspensive and propulsive.
4
The question was whether the veto-power was suspensive or absolute as to amendments of the Constitution.
5
You mean those little metal balls that they used to put in machinery before suspensive magnetic interfaces?
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The next three days will be a long, nail-biting time for everyone.
2
Everything had been nail-biting and I remembered why I never went anywhere.
3
It was a great success with nail-biting action on the track.
4
It's that nail-biting time again for Junior Cert teachers and their young students.
5
Mursi was declared the winner on Sunday, a nail-biting week after voting ended.
Usage of cliff-hanging in anglès
1
Victorian audiences found the ghosts in their favorite melodramas provided emphatic sensations, supernatural thrills, and cliff-hanging action.
2
This was one of those cliff-hanging Tours, but Lance Armstrong was not the man on the edge.
3
The lack of commitment may surprise viewers, given that the final episode of season two ended with a cliff-hanging storyline.
4
I have tried to tell this story as it was experienced at the time, forward rather than backward, preserving its cliff-hanging excitement and unpredictability.
5
This yields well-photographed tourist sites, several cliff-hanging sequences -a few literally that -and a capable returning cast playing now-familiar roles in an action-fantasy.