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How to use the word Suspense in a Sentence?

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I’ll keep you in suspense.

– Map Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

She's guilty of a very, very serious crime, she should not be allowed to run...What I'm saying now is I will tell you. I will keep you in suspense, okay?

– Donald Trump on Wednesday

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I think that’s traditionally the way it’s done. I like tradition and I think suspense is a good thing.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The market is going to be held in suspense for a few weeks, there is going to be pressure on the participants in the meeting to ensure they achieve something. Otherwise they risk the support-market sentiment that we are seeing now dissipate rapidly.

– Victor Shum

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is really no suspense.

– Marvin King

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We still have problems because our cut has still not been restored. Literally, it's a month-to-month suspense on whether we can meet wages.

– Maneka Gandhi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We still have problems because our cut has still not been restored. Literally, it's a month-to-month suspense on whether we can meet wages, it really calls for huge attention.

– Maneka Gandhi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Suspense is worst than disappointment.

– Robert Burns

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Fear keeps pace with hope. Nor does their so moving together surprise me; both belong to a mind in suspense, to a mind in a state of anxiety through looking into the future. Both are mainly due to projecting our thoughts far ahead of us instead of adapting ourselves to the present. Thus it is that foresight, the greatest blessing humanity has been given, is transformed into a curse.

– Seneca, Letters to Lucilius V

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.

– Daniel J. Boorstin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.

– Mary McCarthy

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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