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- adjective Very
exciting orshocking , as though to cause one's heart to skip beats.
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Examples
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ER and Baby in the same sentence is heartstopping enough without serial poopsplosions. i hope everyone is better now.
Warning: This post is largely about poop. Lots and lots of poop. « A Bird’s Nest 2009
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All I need to say is this-I got so caught up in this heartstopping book that I missed both lunch and supper as I couldn't stop reading.
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ER and Baby in the same sentence is heartstopping enough without serial poopsplosions. i hope everyone is better now.
Warning: This post is largely about poop. Lots and lots of poop. « A Bird’s Nest 2009
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There is in the piece of short fiction a moment of time, a beating pulse of emotion, often a heartstopping last line.
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The White Luck Warrior is a story filled with heartstopping action, devious treachery, grand passion, and meticulous detail.
Archive 2010-06-01 Adam Whitehead 2010
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The White Luck Warrior is a story filled with heartstopping action, devious treachery, grand passion, and meticulous detail.
American cover art for Scott Bakker's WHITE LUCK WARRIOR Adam Whitehead 2010
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There are few sights anywhere to match the lovely gentle curve of the High Street, with its spires and belltowers and medieval gables, or the heartstopping glimpse of a garden or a meadow through the half-open door in the cloister.
Dreaming Amid the Spires Ferdinand Mount 2009
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The meal could be hopel-poppel, a Midwest heartstopping favorite.
"You cook breakfast. I'll blog it." Ann Althouse 2009
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It turned into a classic affair that the underdog Giants took in heartstopping fashion to avenge two regular season losses.
Greg Hanlon: From Whiners to Winners: How the Giants Got to the Superbowl 2008
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Dinner, tv, cuddling with K and relaxing while avoiding Oriel and her slobber toys of doom (drool and water and sand * shudder*) SVU tonight was absolutely heartstopping - one of the best episodes i've ever seen of it ... i usually wouldn't mention watching it at all ... but after this will admit to having high hopes for the series.
February 12th, 2006 mynxii 2006
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