How to Use suspense in a Sentence
suspense
noun
- The movie is a suspense thriller.
- I can't bear the suspense.
- The suspense builds as the story progresses.
- Alfred Hitchcock was a master of suspense.
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The suspense was whether Europe could try to make a game of it.
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Doug Ferguson,
courant.com,
26 Sep. 2021
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Having the same handful of shows win again and again and again and again sucks all the suspense out of the evening(*).
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Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2024
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Time to bust out the popcorn, turn off the lights and turn on movies high on gore and suspense.
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Faith Karimi,
CNN,
31 Oct. 2021
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And suspense exists not in the lines, but between the lines.
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Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
30 Sep. 2021
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And the buildup to the creation of the first atomic bomb just about ticks with cosmic suspense.
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Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
19 July 2023
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One of the all-time great suspense films with a pay-off like no other.
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Ben Flanagan | Bflanagan@al.com,
al,
28 Aug. 2022
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The films are based on the 1973 young-adult suspense novel by Lois Duncan.
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Etan Vlessing,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Feb. 2023
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Much of the film’s suspense comes from the sheer pleasure of discovery.
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Peter Debruge,
Variety,
3 Sep. 2023
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But this approach is at odds with the false suspense the rest of the show attempts to concoct.
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Emma Stefansky,
The Atlantic,
12 Sep. 2024
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To break the suspense: Eliade was an anti-Semite and a full member of the Iron Guard.
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Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
15 Nov. 2023
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Trump and his people are all too happy to build the suspense.
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David Jackson,
USA TODAY,
28 June 2024
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Bills that remain in the committee’s suspense file are dead for the year.
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Laurel Rosenhall,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Aug. 2023
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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sure do know how to build suspense.
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Louisa Ballhaus,
Robb Report,
5 Apr. 2023
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The race was still too close to call, meaning the suspense will continue.
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Katie Wadington,
USA TODAY,
15 Nov. 2022
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The longer Mezzocchi hangs out, sharing his thoughts, the more the suspense builds.
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Christopher Arnott,
courant.com,
22 Oct. 2021
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Many begged for spoilers, saying that the suspense was killing them.
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Amanda Taub,
New York Times,
8 Dec. 2023
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Yes, for me the Adam Driver character was one of the great points of suspense in the first season of that show.
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The New Yorker,
15 Feb. 2022
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After a moment of suspense, the door fell shut, and Raff relaxed.
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Jonathan Franzen,
The New Yorker,
25 Dec. 2023
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There’s also a bit of suspense as people wonder who will light the Olympic torch.
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Chris Morris,
Fortune,
26 July 2024
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Do the opposite of what Donald Trump's going to do, which is to keep us all in suspense till the last minute.
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NBC News,
3 July 2022
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Results have now been hidden to add suspense for these last hours.
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cleveland,
28 Oct. 2021
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Though violence seems inevitable, the question of whether the crops will survive the first frost is a source of equal suspense.
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Alex Barasch,
The New Yorker,
28 Jan. 2024
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That only served to build the suspense in extra innings.
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Kirk Kenney,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
31 May 2024
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The murder mystery was full of suspense with a bit of comedy.
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Arkansas Online,
4 Dec. 2022
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The true story about the death of Paul and Lydia’s son is revealed late in the series, and keeping it obscured for that long doesn’t serve any purpose other than prolonging the suspense.
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Nina Metz Chicago Tribune,
Boston Herald,
13 Dec. 2024
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The Lodge takes its time building a tense atmosphere of suspense and delirium set in a remote winter cabin just days before Christmas.
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Huntley Woods,
EW.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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