The hook dropping at just the wrong moment.

Seconds later, Janice's father is shown dropping dead of a heart attack at the moment of her delivery.

It would have been a great effect, wouldn't it, if the weight had suddenly dropped at the moment of that disappearance!

Do you have a backup idea to drop in place at the last moment?

"We must all have stopped dropping shells at the same moment.'"

Before very long, and without any consultation, both cigars were quietly dropped from our nerveless fingers at the same moment.

However, the license was dropped at the last moment when the developers found that getting legal permission to use the likeness would be expensive.

Breyguhn dropped the books at the same moment, revealing a pistol.

Sure enough, they dropped their sticks at the same moment and ran across to the downriver side of the bridge to watch for the winner.

But somehow the ship stops in time, perhaps by dropping a heavy anchor astern at the right moment.