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Example sentences for: suspense

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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.
Partly as a cheap way to build suspense, and partly to force readers to plow through my pet theories before giving them the goods, I'm going to take a stab at the first question and leave the second one for later.
The truth is that suspense and plot, though never before part of the technique of Didion's fiction, have always been its subject.
"The regular pattern of suspense has worn thin," says The New Yorker 's Anthony Lane.
He hardly moves, but he makes everyone on-screen seem important, and he creates a rare kind of in-the-scene suspense.