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heart-stopping
adjective as in breathtaking
Example Sentences
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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