SUSPENSION in a Sentence

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80 example sentences for SUSPENSION, such as:

1. Their suspense lasted an hour or two.
2. Let there be an end of this suspense.
3. We waited in great suspense for the doctor's opinion.
4. The other three sat up at the inn all night in great suspense.
5. Both sides are now working towards a suspension of hostilities.

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 Meanings and Examples of SUSPENSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
suspension
 n.  temporary delay, interruption, or cessation
Classic Sentence: (64 in 5 pages)
1  He was alone, if the solitary sentinel who paced the mound be excepted; for the artillerists had hastened also to profit by the temporary suspension of their arduous duties.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
2  Mr. Bounderby stayed her, by holding a mouthful of chop in suspension before swallowing it, and putting out his left hand.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
3  The soaked soil is in a state of fusion, as it were; all its molecules are in suspension in soft medium; it is not earth and it is not water.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ...
4  Any known danger he could face with a firm lip, but this suspense was unnerving.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
5  John Ferrier felt that instant death would be better than the suspense which shook his nerves and chilled his heart.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
6  This suspense, I know, is telling upon all of you; but it is now our intention to make an end of it.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
7  But here I took pity on my visitor's suspense, and some perhaps on my own growing curiosity.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. LANYON'S NARRATIVE
8  The sun was setting now; and the red light in the evening sky touched every face there, and caused it to be distinctly seen in all its rapt suspense.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
9  For, although an ingenious Allegory relating to a butcher, a three-legged stool, a dog, and a leg of mutton, this narrative consumed time; and they were in great suspense.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
10  The other three sat up at the inn all night in great suspense.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
11  Their suspense lasted an hour or two.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in greater suspense than ever.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
13  Let there be an end of this suspense.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
14  Her feelings made her speak low; and Captain Wentworth, hearing only in part, and probably not having Dick Musgrove at all near his thoughts, looked rather in suspense, and as if waiting for more.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
15  Anne was startled and confused; but after standing in a moment's suspense, was obliged, and not sorry to be obliged, to hurry away.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
Example Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  The film version requires greater suspension of disbelief than the book.
2  The union is protesting about the suspension of a restaurant worker.
3  Both sides are now working towards a suspension of hostilities.
4  A strike by British Airways ground staff has led to the suspension of flights between London and Manchester.
5  The minister warned that any civil servant not at his desk faced immediate suspension.
6  Grima has started to work off his eight - match suspension.
7  Another caution will result in his automatic suspension from the final.
8  A four - day suspension was imposed on her.
9  The car's suspension is so good that when you hit a pothole you hardly notice it.
10  Dr El Baradei said international inspectors were in Iran to monitor and verify the suspension of enrichment activities in advance of the IAEA board meeting on Thursday.
11  The headmaster has made a decision of suspension of a pupil from school.
12  He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that this entire hubbub was about him.
13  He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom.
14  We waited in great suspense for the doctor's opinion.
15  They were kept in suspense about their possibility of joining the expedition for several weeks.