heart-stopping

Then, dramatically, they scored once—and almost twice— in one of the most heart-stopping finales of the World Cup thus far.

Skedaddle onto the equally heart-stopping Million Dollar Highway to Ouray and Telluride.

Each site is chosen for shade, isolation, and heart-stopping views.

They were the heart-stopping exclamation point on a whole season of weak Perry debate performances—all captured on videotape.

One of her two teenage sons has asthma, a condition that led to some heart-stopping moments when he was young.

We could not but remember the heart-stopping drop of that goat after we had cut the rope; and the swoop of the raven.

In heart-stopping panic George dropped the cat, jumped around.

For one heart-stopping moment the darkness had seemed to swoop in upon them like the clutching hand of death.

A heart-stopping moment, in which the diving boat, the darting shadow of the torpedo, the blocking prow of the Vulcan was clear.