Sentence examples for heart stood from inspiring English sources

Charlie's heart stood still.

He wasn't going to make the world forget those few seconds when its heart stood still.

I was looking for a place to live, and one afternoon I walked just ten steps into an apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and my heart stood still.

The chair of the judging panel, Guardian Review editor Lisa Allardice, paid tribute to the "raw talent, promise and originality" exhibited by all the shortlisted writers, but said The Spinning Heart stood out for its "startling audacity".

I caught Sir James with his protectoress The rector's wife, I mean the rectoress His heart stood still: angina pectoris To keep my love alive This version has the wonderful Elaine Stritch, who died in 2014, giving a paean to pain (ouch) the performance it deserves.

Lines such as "I met him on a Sunday and my heart stood still" and "Remember what you promised my mama / You told her that I'd be in by two" came naturally from the mouths of the Ronettes' Ronnie Bennett and the Crystals' 15-year-old La La Brooks.

("My hand shakes, but my head and my heart stand for Democracy," she assures her followers).

I can't, hand on heart, stand up for any of them..

In one pivotal scene, Avi, torn by his spiritual conviction and the tug of his heart, stands at the edge of the sea begging God for some kind of sign.

Jyun-shin-an, which literally means "a house of mellow heart," stands on the elegant cobblestone street of Ishibe-Koji, just behind the touristy boulevard that runs in front of the Kodaiji Temple.

A clean-cut soldier with a row of decorations over his heart stands watch night and day from behind a wall of sandbags at a New York State armory on Manor Road.