He kept his word; still no letter arrived to put an end to my painful state of suspense.

Not as long as he was in a state of uncertain suspense himself.

He cannot be kept in his present state of suspense.

At this moment, Doctor, I allow my life to be in a state of suspense.

Every minute seems an hour while I live in this state of horrible suspense.

Frank and Joe, seated alongside him, were in a state of rising suspense.

"He got me to move from keeping people in a state of suspense to sharing the knowledge," Ebersol said.

No doubt the whole settlement was in a state of suspense and terror.

"It is keeping everything in a state of suspense."

The film keeps you in a state of suspense right up until the very end.