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- adverb In a
heart-pounding manner.
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Examples
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Take particular note, during the video's heart-poundingly frightful opening, of the image of the Soviet sickle and hammer, fleetingly shown at the end of the intoning voice-over's "... environmentalism is striving to put America, and the world, under its destructive control."
John Shore: Environmentalism is Satan's Cause! John Shore 2010
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Take particular note, during the video's heart-poundingly frightful opening, of the image of the Soviet sickle and hammer, fleetingly shown at the end of the intoning voice-over's "... environmentalism is striving to put America, and the world, under its destructive control."
John Shore: Environmentalism is Satan's Cause! John Shore 2010
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In the weeks following caucus, the news about Obama was heart-poundingly great.
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These set-piece battles, along with the sporadic Big Sister, conflicts will provide the game's most heart-poundingly tense moments.
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Some of the gaps you need to slide through are heart-poundingly tight, and some are just too tight for navigation with two buttons or your average phone joystick.
Pocket Gamer | www.pocketgamer.co.uk | Latest additions 2009
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Some of the gaps you need to slide through are heart-poundingly tight, and some are just too tight for navigation with two buttons or your average phone joystick.
Pocket Gamer | www.pocketgamer.co.uk | Latest additions 2009
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Some of the gaps you need to slide through are heart-poundingly tight, and some are just too tight for navigation with two buttons or your average phone joystick.
Pocket Gamer | www.pocketgamer.co.uk | Latest additions 2009
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Yet, while glitzy, fast, and heart-poundingly desirable, these types of cars already seem like relics of a different era - a weird and surreal window on the past.
Green Options Nick Chambers 2008
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When they went for laughs, they were genuinely funny, and their dramatic scenes were still heart-poundingly tense, even after I'd read them dozens of times.
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Lykae males were notoriously good-looking, and the few she’d seen had lived up to their reputation, but this one was heart-poundingly sexy.
Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve Kresley Cole 2010
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