suspense

Example Sentences

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Reader concern for Jane, her family and her clients raises the suspense level.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

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

But each rumor proved to be false and did nothing but add to the already intolerable anxiety and suspense my father and I were feeling as we read the papers and listened to the radio.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok