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.
• Having the same handful of shows win again and again and again and again sucks all the suspense out of the evening(*).
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2024
• And the buildup to the creation of the first atomic bomb just about ticks with cosmic suspense.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 July 2023
• One of the all-time great suspense films with a pay-off like no other.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 28 Aug. 2022
• The films are based on the 1973 young-adult suspense novel by Lois Duncan.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2023
• Much of the film’s suspense comes from the sheer pleasure of discovery.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
• But this approach is at odds with the false suspense the rest of the show attempts to concoct.
  — Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2024
• To break the suspense: Eliade was an anti-Semite and a full member of the Iron Guard.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• Trump and his people are all too happy to build the suspense.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
• Bills that remain in the committee’s suspense file are dead for the year.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sure do know how to build suspense.
  — Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2023
• The race was still too close to call, meaning the suspense will continue.
  — Katie Wadington, USA TODAY, 15 Nov. 2022
• Many begged for spoilers, saying that the suspense was killing them.
  — Amanda Taub, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• After a moment of suspense, the door fell shut, and Raff relaxed.
  — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• There’s also a bit of suspense as people wonder who will light the Olympic torch.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 26 July 2024
• Do the opposite of what Donald Trump's going to do, which is to keep us all in suspense till the last minute.
  — NBC News, 3 July 2022
• Though violence seems inevitable, the question of whether the crops will survive the first frost is a source of equal suspense.
  — Alex Barasch, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• That only served to build the suspense in extra innings.
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 May 2024
• The murder mystery was full of suspense with a bit of comedy.
  — Arkansas Online, 4 Dec. 2022
• The Atkins legislation, known as Senate Bill 519, was sent to what’s called the suspense file last month.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2023
• Just being incognito, the suspense, that's a whole 'nother thing.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
• If no response is received within 30 days, the voter is placed on the suspense list.
  — Dallas News, 31 Mar. 2023
• Many categories feel like a lock, but there still is an air of suspense about a couple of the top contests.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2024
• And its greatest source of suspense is how much the guests, who rotate every few episodes, will tip at the end of each charter.
  — Meredith Blakestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2022
• Heather unlocks and opens the door, and the video flashes and ends, an editing decision to build suspense about who was there.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022
• If the Ducks can build a multi-score cushion before halftime, there might not be much suspense at the end.
  — Eddie Timanus, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
• Creation Lake gets some of its suspense from its action, but Kushner mainly builds tension inside her narrator’s head.
  — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024