in suspense

idiom

: waiting anxiously

She kept him in suspense for two whole days before she agreed to marry him.

Examples of in suspense in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There are strange and startling twists of plot keeping the audience in suspense. —

Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024 As an experience in suspense, however, the film is effective. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 22 Mar. 2024 It's also structured like a thriller, opening with a long, stunning shot of Zecchini sinking into the abyss and leaving you in suspense about her fate until much later in the runtime. —

Janey Tracey, EW.com, 23 May 2024 For someone who relishes theatrics, Trump may enjoy keeping everyone in suspense. —

Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 9 May 2024 There’s a question that now has me in suspense more than most of the Marvel-movie teasers do. —

Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2024 Unlike traditional horror, thrillers often keep us in suspense with the power of suggestion and implication, using every trick in the cinematic playbook to get our hearts racing while withholding overt depictions of what makes the characters anxious. —

Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2024 Even with the massive hint of her Kimmel appearance, the final episode still kept viewers in suspense. —

EW.com, 24 Jan. 2024 The film is, in some ways, a cruel and excruciating exercise in suspense: Will a rich Osage woman named Mollie (Lily Gladstone, giving a fascinatingly enigmatic performance) survive the slow death being planned for her by her husband (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his uncle (Robert De Niro)? —

Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Dec. 2023

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