SUSPENSION in a Sentence
Learn SUSPENSION from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
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.
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
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suspension
n. a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy
n. the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)
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.
2 Mr. Bounderby stayed her, by holding a mouthful of chop in suspension before swallowing it, and putting out his left hand.
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 ...
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.
5 John Ferrier felt that instant death would be better than the suspense which shook his nerves and chilled his heart.
6 This suspense, I know, is telling upon all of you; but it is now our intention to make an end of it.
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
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.
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.
10 The other three sat up at the inn all night in great suspense.
11 Their suspense lasted an hour or two.
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.
13 Let there be an end of this suspense.
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.
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.
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.