Use "suspense" in a sentence
suspense example sentences
suspense
1. At five o’clock she could bear the suspense no longer and switched on the television, keeping the volume down as low as she could, desperate to find out what was happening
2. could bear the suspense no longer and switched on the television,
3. He didn’t see how she could, it was a trade mag, ‘Center Lake Shipping Digest,’ that was not known for gripping suspense or moving human interest
4. He can feel his pulse racing and to reassure himself, to break the spell of suspense, he mutters, "Stupid bastard, messing yourself up
5. The world hangs in rolling suspense
6. energy at the malls, cookies baking in the oven, eggnog, kids held in such suspense
7. clearly, then? You tell it all with an unnecessary air of suspense
8. suspense of the length, is Tanker got away and saved us
9. Some years before this, while the expectations of Europe were in suspense about the projects of the Portuguese, of which the success appeared yet to be doubtful, a Genoese pilot formed the yet more daring project of sailing to the East Indies by the west
10. and it says”, and here he began to drag things out again building up the suspense until I could have killed him
11. The Commador Cinema in George Street was screening a series of old classics and today’s film was Jaws - in McKee’s view, one of the best suspense films ever made
12. In Cuba it was frequently impossible even to discover the regiment of a wounded or dead man, countless mistakes arose, and for weeks families at home endured a terrible suspense, when some loved one, whose body had probably been buried without identity by a fatigue party, was posted as missing
13. Then the drum roll rolled over the speakers again and Joe hesitated, smiling, feeding the people all the suspense they wanted
14. South African Navy ships rescued the stranded advisors in an operation which justifies a book in suspense and made South African Chief of Staff General Constand Viljoen say "it was the most difficult night ever in my operational career
15. Had Joseph been delayed? Perhaps he'd had a change of heart? Could he have been discovered, exposed? She didn't know, and the suspense was making her anxious and irritable
16. In fact they’re a little late and the suspense is almost killing me
17. “Can you explain that, over the phone?” he asked in an agony of suspense
18. Eynochia watched in suspense as she stood up straight with more
19. Cinder nearly shook with suspense
20. Suspense ate at Sven’s stomach as well as the others’, impatient in the
21. be, let him come to us, he’s always trying to keep us in suspense
22. 25 The Jews, breathless with momentary suspense, stretched out their hands, and prayed the Greatest God,
23. Jack, being the stage actor that he was, decided to lap up the suspense before speaking and carefully shook the hand of each and every one of them
24. time, and the suspense was driving her crazy
25. "Are you going to keep me in suspense?" he said wiping his brow with his right hand
26. loyalty because the books “are exciting and well written resonate with suspense, mystery, intrigue and showdowns between the forces of
27. 25 The Jews breathless with momentary suspense stretched out their hands and prayed the Greatest God in mournful strains again to help them speedily
28. 24 The Jews therefore came around Him and said to Him "How long will You hold us in suspense? If You are the Christ tell us plainly
29. asked with a look of suspense on his face
30. Kirk could stand the suspense no longer
31. The suspense was slowly eating Ashat up, but Baku remained calm
32. Drama, intrigue, and suspense –these are a great mix of flavors for a movie, and for the first time, executed so well in a video game
33. The suspense of the coming events kept us in a state of extreme anxiety
34. The simplicity of the answer was filling my soul with anxiety and suspense
35. Quite to the contrary, was making me more bothersome of the suspense of the future days
36. The suspense was so dense that I couldn't breathe literally
37. "Don't leave me in suspense
38. breathless with suspense, dying to turn the page? Your writing
39. See? Always— constantly—build interest, involvement, suspense, and movement
40. ( buy it to see these principles in action!), to stretch Tension and Suspense
41. to another scene that you also leave hanging and unresolved, to build suspense, tension, and more
42. Suspense in a book is created by Anticipation
43. Create Suspense in the reader and get her to keep
44. Build interest and suspense in the book by holding back
45. building and heightened suspense and conflict
46. After all, we migrate to horror, suspense, and tragedy because they trigger in us a kind of biochemical rush, which makes utopias boring and dystopias thrilling
47. The children waited in suspense
48. They walked in silence until the children could bear the suspense no longer; they asked the Coralute what, specifically, the last orders of the King and Queen had been
49. Also pause can be an effective instrument in creating suspense
50. I chuckled nervously, the suspense was killing me