cliffhanger's Usage Examples:

End-of-season cliffhanger (Episode 696): It's a dramatic end-of-year final with numerous cliffhangers leaving lives hanging in the balance.

precedent" for a serial, the title character is rarely involved in the cliffhangers.

Though the snake used, a python, would have a non-lethal bite, that storyline featuring the infamous snake cliffhanger was often credited as a way to try and increase ratings for the show.

In 1930, Tyler was loaned out to Mascot Pictures for his first all talking sound film, The Phantom of the West, a typical ten-chapter Saturday matinee cowboy cliffhanger featuring a mysterious secret villain and numerous stunts and action sequences.

In 2010, Charlie Jane Anders of io9 named the cliffhanger to the fourth episode"nbsp;– in which the Master decides to shoot the Doctor"nbsp;– as one of the greatest cliffhangers in Doctor Who.

The cliffhangers, and their resolutions, in chapters one and 12 are almost identical.

Fittingly, seven of the 11 cliffhangers involve burning buildings with at least one principal trapped inside.

"Billy"s Bucket List" was met with critical acclaim, with one reviewer complimenting the episode"s cliffhanger and emotional growth.

Literary devices such as red herrings, plot twists, unreliable narrators, and cliffhangers are used extensively.

] And just when you thought things just couldn"t get any crummier, the bonus chapter also ends on an abrupt, insultingly unfinished cliffhanger.

In the second-season finale of Ghost Whisperer, Zach made an appearance while trying to get help from Melinda before being taken into the Dark Side, leaving the internet series in its own cliffhanger.

Marvel"s brief stint of Star Trek publishing; however, it was cancelled unceremoniously leaving the cliffhanger unresolved.

Following the enormous success of Dickens by the 1860s cliffhanger endings had become a staple part of the sensation serials.

Synonyms:

competition, contest,

Antonyms:

friend, cooperation, nonpayment, finish,