suspense
Example Sentences
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“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
Directors Hammerling and Baghdadi don’t have a huge mystery on their hands, and the direction and choice of imagery and editing generate a sense of ethereal wonder and elusiveness, rather than suspense or high drama.
He’d had it with the suspense, the implications, the accusations, the strain.
From Literature
"I will break the suspense tomorrow," he said.
From Barron's
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
