Synonym: agitation, anxiety, apprehension, concern, disquiet, distress, fear, uneasiness. Similar words: suspension, suspend, suspended, suspended animation, dispense, suspect, suspect of, consensus. Meaning: [sə'spens] n. 1. apprehension about what is going to happen 2. an uncertain cognitive state 3. excited anticipation of an approaching climax.
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1) They kept us in suspense for over two hours.
2) We waited in great suspense for the doctor's opinion.
3) Don't keep us in suspense?did you get the job or not?
4) The suspense over the two remaining hostages ended last night when the police discovered the bullet ridden bodies.
5) The detective story kept me in suspense until the end.
6) She kept him in suspense for several days before she said that she would marry him.
7) What happened next? The suspense is killing me .
8) Don't keep us in suspense. Tell us what happened!
9) Suspense adds interest to a story.
10) I couldn't bear the suspense a moment longer.
11) Tell me now! I can't bear the suspense!
12) I suffered agonies of suspense in silence.
13) She waited in an agony of suspense.
14) She couldn't bear the suspense a moment longer.
15) Hitchcock was an acknowledged master of suspense.
16) I was in an agony of suspense.
17) Don't keep us in suspense any longer!
18) The suspense was unbearable.
19) They were kept in suspense about their possibility of joining the expedition for several weeks.
20) Keppler kept all his men in suspense until that morning before announcing which two would be going.
21) Don't keep us in suspense any longer: tell us what happened!
22) There is a gradual build-up of suspense throughout the film,[http://sentencedict.com/suspense.html] until it comes to an unexpected ending.
23) Her latest film is a suspense thriller very much in the manner of Hitchcock.
24) Come on then, tell me what happened; the suspense is killing me .
25) Don't keep us in suspense any longer -- what happens at the end of the story?
26) Hitchcock was the master of suspense movies.
27) I don't get the results till next week, and the suspense is killing me.
28) Don't look at the end of the book yet?you'll break the suspense.
29) Please tell us what happened, we're all waiting in suspense.
30) There are slow passages in which little happens, but they help to build up the suspense.
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