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
• If this is a style of storytelling that’s going to stick around, you sure as hell should know how a cliff-hanger break works in a vertical.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 21 Aug. 2026
• In other words, cut the contentious cliff-hangers and replace them with pasta and palazzos — and stories people can connect with.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
• 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