cliffhanger
Example Sentences
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Back in the current Archers timeline, fans were left on tenterhooks by the cliffhanger broadcast on New Year's Eve, when a dramatic attack shook the village.
From BBC
Tarantino peels away the cliffhanger at the end of “Vol. 1” and expands an animated sequence that he didn’t have time to finish.
From Los Angeles Times
Cornelius Vanderbilt, glimpsed briefly on his way to visit Constance, disappears, presumably to resurface in the concluding three episodes; and by “concluding” I mean whatever brings us to the cliffhanger I assume is coming.
From Los Angeles Times
So like the serials of the silent era, we’re left, for the moment at least, with a cliffhanger.
It started with a cliffhanger and ended with a cliffhanger.
From BBC
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