Similar words: biting, inhibiting, backbiting, retail banking, nailing, rub it in, fingernail, snail mail. Meaning: adj. (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense.
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1 Germany won the championship after a nail-biting final.
2 The match went all the way to a nail-biting finish.
3 It's been a nail-biting couple of weeks waiting for my results.
4 The rescue scene makes a nice, nail-biting finale.
5 The World Series provided a number of nail-biting moments.
6 A nail-biting finish, but finally won by Moira Creek at her first attempt and a complete stranger to Pooh culture.
7 In a nail-biting last game, Lau just edged home in deuce 22-20 to put Pinewood into their first cup final.
8 It had been a nail-biting day glued to the television.
9 Fresh from a nail-biting triumph with his economic stimulus package, Barack Obama will head to the American heartland tomorrow in an attempt to win public support for his massive rescue bill.
10 After a nail-biting ballot, in which Naoto Kan, the prime minister, and Mr Ozawa, his brooding challenger, sat just feet away from each other, eyes shut, meditating intensely, Mr Kan won handsomely.
11 But there was more nail-biting before the Manchester-built aircraft, Britain’s most potent nuclear deterrent during the Cold War, was declared airworthy by the Civil Aviation Authority.
12 I've known several people who have overcome nail-biting simply by buying 50 nail files and distributing them everywhere: in their pockets, their desks and their bedrooms.
13 After you survive a series of nail-biting experiences that turn out to be nothing to worry about, your mind will say, "See I told you so."
14 Moan with nail-biting, or take measures to solve the problems actively and pass the means on to the posterity charitably.
15 Reluctant to release Ajiaxi back to nature, ?the nail-biting zoologists?put Ajiaxi into a spacious cage where he lived a superior and sex-free life until Liana came to him.
16 At the nail-biting China-Spain basketball game on Tuesday, thousands of Chinese fans performed the wave, which they call the "Mexican wave." (Are Mexicans known for doing the wave?
17 Years of negotiations to secure the exhibition, which runs Saturday through Oct. 26, often were marked by nail-biting moments.
18 But if they drop points, Leicester City or Derby County could triumph in a nail-biting finish.
19 I was thinking about terrorism a great deal then because of the nail-biting two months wed had leading up to the millennium celebration.
20 FOR more than a year the euro zone's debt drama has lurched from one nail-biting scene to another.
21 Glenn Hoddle's side showed a bulldog spirit, personified by bloodied captain Paul Ince, as they battled for the point they needed in a nail-biting goalless draw.
22 David Platt's 119th minute volley against Belgium in Bologna led to a nail-biting 3-2 victory over Cameroon in Naples in the quarter-final.
23 With professional advice,[www.Sentencedict.com] you can often dramatically lessen the amount of nail-biting and red ink you have to endure before the business takes hold.
24 United are once again champions of England and inevitably, it was achieved the hard way, with a nail-biting goalless draw against Arsenal at Old Trafford.
25 It is even possible that one or other nomination will be decided only at the conventions: a nail-biting Act IV.
26 Wildlife series are defined by the impossible-to-get shot the same way that summer blockbusters are defined by a nail-biting car chase or an over-the-top explosion.
27 You feel frustrated and anxious, which can induce a nail-biting frenzy that can escalate into a triple-chocolate-mud-cake-eating frenzy in a blink of an eye!
28 For example, the debt ceiling has been raised by enough to see the country through the far side of the coming election, without another nail-biting stand-off in between.
29 That part of the project also tested my patience and commitment until one day in 2003 I began a nail-biting countdown to the launch of the experiment I'd named Phoenix.
30 Public opinion and local planners are often more sceptical than national authorities—so getting permits is a nail-biting business.
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