Sentence examples for barely a heartbeat from inspiring English sources
("Blessed is the one who sits down" echoes like a goofy, pseudoserious refrain.) In scenes in which a man, begging for his job, clutches the ankle of his golf-playing boss, the mood is barely a heartbeat away from unbearable melodrama.
Byrd knocked a hard grounder to third base, and they found one, Justin Turner celebrating his bobblehead giveaway with a bouncing, twisting stop and throw that beat Byrd by barely a heartbeat, a play so close it required more than two minutes of replay examination to confirm.
No small feat, since Bob is so chilled out that he barely seems to have a heartbeat; even kicking heroin cold turkey seems to be a tour of downbeat glamour for him.
In a heartbeat, just to feel hers.
And John McCain, who barely knew her, fell for the story -- fell in love with the story -- and picked her to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
"Absolutely, in a heartbeat".
In a heartbeat," he thinks.
