cliffhanger
IPA: kɫˈɪfhæŋɝ
noun
- (narratology) An ending or stopping point calculated to leave a story unresolved, in order to create suspense.
- (by extension) An outcome which is awaited with keen anticipation, especially one which is delayed for a period of time or which is not known until the last minute.
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Examples of "cliffhanger" in Sentences
- It says cliffhanger all over it.
- It remains a perpetual cliffhanger.
- Each episode ended in a cliffhanger.
- People kept calling it a cliffhanger.
- The Hughleys ended with a cliffhanger.
- And it ends on a hell of a cliffhanger.
- Bobby featured in a number of cliffhangers.
- The book then suddenly ends on a cliffhanger.
- It will conclude the second season cliffhanger.
- It is the season finale, ending on a cliffhanger.
- The cliffhanger is good, but not aggravating the way some books are.
- Oh, and Mike getting married — though in cliffhanger fashion, we don't know to whom.
- I was interested to see how they handled the cliffhanger from the end of last season.
- The cliffhanger is similarly typical: how will Haruna and Yoh handle being separated by their college choices?
- He gets a lot further into the story than I expected him to and ends at a much more compelling moment than the cliffhanger from the novel that I thought he'd pick.
- At the end of the first issue, the cliffhanger is that the reader learns that Marty plans to get Gary killed if that is what it will take to get rid of Agent Orange.
- It continues in The Fall of Hyperion, but the cliffhanger is so sharp and unexpected, and the ending so silly and jarring, that I almost feel like it will be difficult to begin the next book.
- The show temporarily becomes Seattle Medical: Road to Recovery, with sensational teasers amid other infotainment hoopla, as hand-held cameras follow the doctors along the usual rounds of triumph (a double arm transplant, a regenerative trachea procedure in the pediatrics ward) and tragedy (Mandy Moore, from the shoot-em-up cliffhanger, is back, but goes into an irreversible coma after Bailey's routine op).