SUSPENSE in a Sentence
Learn SUSPENSE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
80 example sentences for SUSPENSE, such as:
1. Their suspense lasted an hour or two.
2. Let there be an end of this suspense.
3. We waited in great suspense for the doctor's opinion.
4. The other three sat up at the inn all night in great suspense.
5. Both sides are now working towards a suspension of hostilities.
2. Let there be an end of this suspense.
3. We waited in great suspense for the doctor's opinion.
4. The other three sat up at the inn all night in great suspense.
5. Both sides are now working towards a suspension of hostilities.
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Meanings and Examples of SUSPENSE
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suspense
n. apprehension about what is going to happen
n. excited anticipation of an approaching climax
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1 Any known danger he could face with a firm lip, but this suspense was unnerving.
2 John Ferrier felt that instant death would be better than the suspense which shook his nerves and chilled his heart.
3 This suspense, I know, is telling upon all of you; but it is now our intention to make an end of it.
4 But here I took pity on my visitor's suspense, and some perhaps on my own growing curiosity.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
5 The sun was setting now; and the red light in the evening sky touched every face there, and caused it to be distinctly seen in all its rapt suspense.
6 For, although an ingenious Allegory relating to a butcher, a three-legged stool, a dog, and a leg of mutton, this narrative consumed time; and they were in great suspense.
7 The other three sat up at the inn all night in great suspense.
8 Their suspense lasted an hour or two.
9 This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in greater suspense than ever.
10 Let there be an end of this suspense.
11 Her feelings made her speak low; and Captain Wentworth, hearing only in part, and probably not having Dick Musgrove at all near his thoughts, looked rather in suspense, and as if waiting for more.
12 Anne was startled and confused; but after standing in a moment's suspense, was obliged, and not sorry to be obliged, to hurry away.
13 After the usual period of suspense, the usual sounds of approach were heard, and "Mr and Mrs Charles Musgrove" were ushered into the room.
14 Anything was possible, anything might be defied rather than suspense.
15 In this agony of suspense she entered the house, put the baby in a place of safety, woke the lad and the female domestic, and ran out to give the alarm at the nearest cottage.
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1 He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that this entire hubbub was about him.
2 He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom.
3 We waited in great suspense for the doctor's opinion.
4 They were kept in suspense about their possibility of joining the expedition for several weeks.
5 The film version requires greater suspension of disbelief than the book.
6 The union is protesting about the suspension of a restaurant worker.
7 Both sides are now working towards a suspension of hostilities.
8 A strike by British Airways ground staff has led to the suspension of flights between London and Manchester.
9 The minister warned that any civil servant not at his desk faced immediate suspension.
10 Grima has started to work off his eight - match suspension.
11 Another caution will result in his automatic suspension from the final.
12 A four - day suspension was imposed on her.
13 The car's suspension is so good that when you hit a pothole you hardly notice it.
14 Dr El Baradei said international inspectors were in Iran to monitor and verify the suspension of enrichment activities in advance of the IAEA board meeting on Thursday.
15 The headmaster has made a decision of suspension of a pupil from school.