Definition of "cliffhanging" [cliffhanging]

• Present participle of cliffhang. (verb)
• Suspenseful. (adjective)

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• "Had the Parkers been cruising at another five hundred feet, he would have managed a bumpy but passable landing, reducing the incident to just another anecdote about the kind of cliffhanging hair's-breadth escape that came so frequently in the lives of top undercover agents like Richard and Mary Parker."
• "Therefore, after the cliffhanging events of The Search For Spock (the Enterprise destroyed, the crew fugitives), I was thrilled to see that DC's Star Trek comic was picking up directly from the movie."
• "You have to remember that for every cliffhanging situation provided in Temple of Doom, there were stressful moments of Harrison Ford questioning himself, deciding to do something fairly crazy, and then bracing for the worst."