How to Use suspense in a Sentence

suspense

noun

• The movie is a suspense thriller.
• I can't bear the suspense.
• The suspense builds as the story progresses.
• Alfred Hitchcock was a master of suspense.
• There’s a great twist at the end, and lots of suspense.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 13 Feb. 2025
• The suspense was whether Europe could try to make a game of it.
  — Doug Ferguson, courant.com, 26 Sep. 2021
• When there were three sweets left in the roll, Ivor could not take the suspense any longer.
  — Anne Enright, New Yorker, 27 July 2025
• Having the same handful of shows win again and again and again and again sucks all the suspense out of the evening(*).
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2024
• For the sake of suspense, the wine turns a disturbing shade of brown as the hours tick away.
  — Steve Marble, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• Time to bust out the popcorn, turn off the lights and turn on movies high on gore and suspense.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
• And suspense exists not in the lines, but between the lines.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 30 Sep. 2021
• But there's still a bit of suspense over who might join him in New York.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 8 Dec. 2019
• But there’s still a bit of suspense over who might join him in New York.
  — Steve Megargee, The Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2019
• The plot was thrilling and the suspense was unbearable.
  — Jeff Leen, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2020
• And the buildup to the creation of the first atomic bomb just about ticks with cosmic suspense.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 July 2023
• One of the all-time great suspense films with a pay-off like no other.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 28 Aug. 2022
• That killer suspense was there at the Tokyo Olympics on Monday.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 July 2021
• The films are based on the 1973 young-adult suspense novel by Lois Duncan.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Feb. 2023
• To be fair, this is an inspired idea for a suspense film.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 June 2021
• The vote was unanimous among the 14 schools and there was no suspense or doubt.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 29 July 2021
• Much of the film’s suspense comes from the sheer pleasure of discovery.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2023
• But this approach is at odds with the false suspense the rest of the show attempts to concoct.
  — Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2024
• To break the suspense: Eliade was an anti-Semite and a full member of the Iron Guard.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 15 Nov. 2023
• Trump and his people are all too happy to build the suspense.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
• Bills that remain in the committee’s suspense file are dead for the year.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle sure do know how to build suspense.
  — Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2023
• The Plot is filled with the hallmark twists of a suspense narrative.
  — Annabel Gutterman, Time, 12 May 2021
• The movie cues us to think that's a racist idea, yet isn't above exploiting it for suspense.
  — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 23 July 2021
• Well, there’s a live jazz orchestra to keep the crowds swinging and live radio plays to deliver suspense and thrills.
  — Randy McMullen, Mercury News, 17 July 2025
• Packed with scandal, secrets, and suspense, The Hunting Wives wraps season 1 with a twisty finale.
  — Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 23 July 2025