Words similar to suspense

Example sentences for: suspense

How can you use “suspense” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Air Force One rips off half the adventures from Executive Decision --there's a blatantly similar scene involving the cutting of wires--but the suspense never builds.
Actually, Hopkins gives this humanistic magnate considerable weight, so that whether or not Death takes him before he can stop to smell the roses and make amends to his neglected children becomes a matter of some suspense.
In his standup and Tonight Show work, Albert demonstrated how you could delay the laugh, really prolong the suspense, and get a much better laugh at the end.
He hardly moves, but he makes everyone on-screen seem important, and he creates a rare kind of in-the-scene suspense.
It's a dark, witty suspense story about an outbreak of illegal magic in a school full of witch orphans--children whose parents have been burned as witches.