suspense
Example Sentences
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Reader concern for Jane, her family and her clients raises the suspense level.
Writer-director Ian Tuason, in his first feature, handles the second of these assignments with gusto: The movie generates a pleasing fog of suspense as it makes the audience pay attention to each new audio cue.
While suspense about best picture doesn't happen every year, what is truly unusual this time is the amount of uncertainty surrounding the acting prizes.
From Barron's
There’s suspense and emotion, and she already sort of has a point—about things going differently than you hope they will, and moving on without the kind of closure you want.
From Literature
“The suspense has been building and building, and now we have a few things that are either a variation on minoxidil or maybe something new, but they’re still very, very early.”
From MarketWatch
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
