How to Use in suspense in a Sentence
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Can voters in suspense still cast a ballot?
—Chaya Tong, Austin American Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026
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There’s a question that now has me in suspense more than most of the Marvel-movie teasers do.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024
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The show picks up in the summer, leaving viewers in suspense in the meantime.
—Dallas News, 4 Jan. 2023
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The madcap plot will keep readers in suspense until the final page.
—Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
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There are strange and startling twists of plot keeping the audience in suspense.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
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Awards were announced in a way that kept the participants in suspense.
—Stephanie Ogilvie, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
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Netflix’s trailer for the season-nine reunion keeps us in suspense.
—Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
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With the crew's life support dwindling, the world watched gripped in suspense over their four-day journey back to Earth.
—David Morgan, CBS News, 8 Nov. 2025
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But director Chloé Zhao isn't keeping us in suspense much longer.
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 5 Nov. 2021
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The episodes were recorded last spring, so only the viewers will be in suspense on who the ultimate victor is.
—Bethonie Butler, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023
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Writer Lemire is very deft in keeping the audience in suspense as to what is real and what isn’t.
—Tribune News Service, cleveland, 14 Nov. 2020
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So did Woll's friends, who had looked on in suspense as the jury prepared to announce its decision.
—Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2024
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The first movie in particular manages to keep you in suspense despite having a cast of just two actors.
—Jacob Siegal, BGR, 24 Jan. 2022
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Even with the massive hint of her Kimmel appearance, the final episode still kept viewers in suspense.
—EW.com, 24 Jan. 2024
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The prologue is a masterclass in suspense and raw horror, including a full-on attack in broad daylight.
—Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 18 May 2021
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That’s because Elon Musk has kept consumers in suspense until the final moment.
—Bychristiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
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In Mitre’s capable hands, the outcome of the trial, while never in doubt, is nonetheless wreathed in suspense.
—Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2023
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Yes, inflation is starting to ease and interest rates are slowly coming down, but the economy still feels in suspense.
—Jordyn Holman, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2024
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Then the massive marine mammals disappeared beneath the waves, leaving the anglers in suspense.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 15 Jan. 2025
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The chord changes leave the listener in suspense and yearning, the aural equivalent of Lorde hanging out of her car in the song’s music video.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 23 Aug. 2021
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As an experience in suspense, however, the film is effective.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024
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Mail-in ballots are what can keep California’s competitive races in suspense.
—Emily Brooks, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
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Ari Lennox has been keeping fans in suspense for a little over a year now, but the wait for new music from the R&B singer is finally over.
—Charu Sinha, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2021
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The screenplay is by Zach Helm and Sam Levinson, who do their best to leave the criminality in suspense.
—The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2022
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This means that until today, Office fans have lived in suspense for 13 years while trying to figure out one of the show's biggest mysteries.
—Andrea Towers, EW.com, 7 May 2021
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In the ensuing months, Jane and the rest of the nation waited in suspense for news of a battle between British and American troops.
—Julie Flavell, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2021
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Most voters end up in suspense after moving without updating their voter registration, Davis said.
—Chaya Tong, Austin American Statesman, 3 Mar. 2026
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Are Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively deliberately keeping fans in suspense for their own amusement?
—Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 14 Feb. 2023
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After her 2024 loss in the presidential race, the political world is in suspense about Harris’s next move.
—Julia Mueller, The Hill, 2 July 2025
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Over 2,000 miles away, his mother is watching in suspense, hoping her son continues to never give up despite the situation.
—Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 26 Aug. 2025
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