SUSPEND in a Sentence

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97 example sentences for SUSPEND, such as:

1. We saw smoke suspended in the still air.
2. A painting of Ingres was suspended on the wall.
3. A lamp was suspended from the ceiling above us.
4. Tom is suspended from school for a week for bad conduct.
5. The project was suspended because of the shortage of fund.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUSPEND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
suspend
 v.  hang freely; postpone; delay
Classic Sentence: (71 in 5 pages)
1  By experiment its one and fifty yarns will each suspend a weight of one hundred and twenty pounds; so that the whole rope will bear a strain nearly equal to three tons.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 60. The Line.
2  If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
3  "I would by no means suspend any pleasure of yours," he coldly replied.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
4  Short of paper, short of ink, short of men, the newspapers had suspended publication after the siege began, and the wildest rumors appeared from nowhere and swept through the town.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
5  Trial by jury and the law of habeas corpus were practically suspended.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  I was in a state of suspended animation and it was enough that I had something to eat and a bed to lie on.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  Then she laid out a sheet of paper, and sat over it with suspended pen.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
8  It was a small group still, with heterogeneous figures suspended in large unpeopled spaces; but Lily did not take long to learn that its regulation was no longer in Mr. Stancy's hands.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
9  In vain the captain threatened to throw him overboard; suspended a cutlass over his naked wrists; Queequeg was the son of a King, and Queequeg budged not.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
10  Two enormous wooden pots painted black, and suspended by asses' ears, swung from the cross-trees of an old top-mast, planted in front of an old doorway.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
11  Seems it credible that by three such thin threads the great Leviathan was suspended like the big weight to an eight day clock.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
12  Immediately, by Starbuck's orders, lines were secured to it at different points, so that ere long every boat was a buoy; the sunken whale being suspended a few inches beneath them by the cords.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
13  Crowding all sail the Pequod pressed after them; the harpooneers handling their weapons, and loudly cheering from the heads of their yet suspended boats.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
14  For, suspended in those watery vaults, floated the forms of the nursing mothers of the whales, and those that by their enormous girth seemed shortly to become mothers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
15  The owners were ordered not to return, the Free Speech was suspended with as little compunction as the business of the "People's Grocery" broken up and the proprietors murdered.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In V
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  As the warning of earthquake, a number of train and subway lines had to suspend services.
2  To disbar a lawyer, to unfrock a priest, to suspend a doctor's license to practice-these are extreme steps that the authorities should take only after careful consideration.
3  After the verdict, his lawyers claimed he had a mental stress caused by confinement, and called for the court to suspend the appeals trial until improved.
4  Both sides in the conflict have agreed temporarily to suspend hostilities.
5  If suggested improvements are not carried out, we have the right to suspend the insurance cover.
6  He overstepped the mark and we had no option but to suspend him.
7  A lamp was suspended from the ceiling above us.
8  We saw smoke suspended in the still air.
9  The project was suspended because of the shortage of fund.
10  A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.
11  A painting of Ingres was suspended on the wall.
12  Tom is suspended from school for a week for bad conduct.
13  Sales of the drug will be suspended until more tests are completed.
14  Some animals, such as hedgehogs, exist in a state of suspended animation during the winter.
15  Several employees were suspended amid allegations that financial improprieties had been committed.