How to Use cliff-hanger in a Sentence

cliff-hanger

noun
  • Which means there are some major cliff-hangers to obsess over for the next few weeks.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 11 Aug. 2025
  • For now, Mars keeps its secrets, and Bright Angel stays a cliff-hanger.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The show remains compulsively watchable; each episode ends on a cliff-hanger.
    — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Whether banger or ballad, her tracks make room for characters, settings, twists, a tidy ending, a cliff-hanger.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The biggest key to the success of minidramas, though, is the cliff-hangers, which push viewers to keep paying for the next episode.
    — Yixuan Tan, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Nonesuch ends not with a cliff-hanger, exactly, but with a transformation that necessitates a follow-up.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The latest cliff-hanger, which saw Netflix ceding the bidding war to Paramount late Thursday, had Hollywood and the media worlds agog.
    — Rebecca Keegan, NBC news, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Angus Cloud, who played drug dealer Fezco, died after season two; the second season ended on a major cliff-hanger involving his character.
    — Jackie Strause, HollywoodReporter, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That film ended on a massive cliff-hanger, meaning a lot of people have been waiting to see what happens after Peter Parker makes the difficult decision to erase his identity from the world.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Debora Cahn, creator and showrunner of the Netflix series, discusses season two’s cliff-hanger ending and the importance of highlighting the work of civil servants.
    — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 19 Aug. 2025
  • And many have speculated that Netflix’s vast trove of data informs certain narrative habits on its shows (cliff-hangers to encourage bingeing, for example, and frequent restating of plot points to engage viewers distracted by their phones).
    — Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026

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