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heart stands still
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Idioms and Phrases
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Example Sentences
A carriage passes you with drawn blinds, and your heart stands still.
Then John's heart stands still with a sudden fear, as he imagines that some terrible thing has occurred.
My heart stands still as I realize that it is Frick shouting.
My heart stands still when I remember the thundering of those forts, the premeditated destruction, the finality which each boom!
Going down the Yukon for the first time, one's heart stands still nearly half the time.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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