suspense

Example Sentences

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EFL chief executive Trevor Birch said the play-offs have become a "highlight of the domestic football calendar, capturing the drama, suspense and jeopardy that make the EFL so special".

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

Is it why markets are rocking, why oil shipments are cut back from the Strait of Hormuz, why the world hangs on tenterhooks of suspense over what happens next?

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

"I will break the suspense tomorrow," he said.

From Barron's • Feb. 14, 2026

If “One of Us” is an entertaining family saga of privilege and comeuppance, it is also a consummate novel of suspense in which revelations detonate with lethal accuracy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

Of course, having caught their interest, he puffed long in concentration to draw out the suspense.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich