How To Use Suspended In A Sentence

The light, a single bulb in an ethnic basket, was suspended from the ceiling and lit just the table.
The typical Ruby-crowned Kinglet nest is deep and is suspended from two hanging twigs.
The whole project is in suspended animation while we wait for permission to proceed.
The suspended flotilla includes modern powerboats, yachts and coracles.
With three players cup-tied, one suspended and another released this month, there will be four familiar names missing, and some unfamiliar ones on the bench.

The Korea Skating Union suspended Lee Jung-su and Kwak Yoon-gy from all competitions until April 2013 as punishment for allegedly helping to fix competitions and national team tryouts in March, KSU official Kim Tae-wan said. Two South Korean Olympic medalists get 3-year skating ban
The IP pellet was resuspended in final wash buffer and aliquoted for subsequent biochemical analyses.
They occur when a layer of unconsolidated sediment is fluidized and transport of fluid and suspended grains takes place through overlying sediment to the sediment-water interface.
In ways often too subtle to be conscious but sometimes overt, I believe, blacks remain devalued in American schools, where, for example, a recent national survey shows that through high school they are still more than twice as likely as white children to receive corporal punishment, be suspended from school, or be labeled mentally retarded. Race and the Schooling of Black Americans
The court handed him a suspended sentence of two months in prison, with a probationary term of five years.
We need reform so that a suspended sentence can be converted by the original judge if the convicted criminals bring it into disrepute by their behaviour. The Sun
Suspended from a giant parachute, the bronze-colored capsule carrying the taikonaut, coined from the Chinese word for space, touched down at around 6.23 am after a 21-hour journey that took him around the world 14 times.
Anyone climbing the ladder to the loft is suspended above the vertical spiral stairwell - not recommended for those nervous of heights.
On Jan. 23 a decree suspended import tariffs retroactively from Jan. 15 until the expected announcement of new tariffs on April 1.
This spring-flowering species has elegant slender stems, suspended from which are pendulous bell-shaped flowers, very green in bud, opening to cream, crisscrossed with green and maroon netted markings.
His hand was frozen, suspended in mid-air, the necklace barely dangling off it.
The units will have fully fitted offices with suspended ceilings, recessed lighting, painted and plastered walls, perimeter trunking and gas fired central heating.
You very quickly realise the power and violence of the fluid movements in which you are suspended. Times, Sunday Times
A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.
When we came up for the first time, there wasn't much made of rustication (being suspended from the university for a set period).
One employee was suspended without pay for two weeks and another was put on three-month probation.
The unsuspended prison sentence is rare for white-collar crimes of this nature. Times, Sunday Times
My position on euthanasia is actually derived from the ancient Greek one; that is, I am generally in favour of allowing it, as long as the person being euthanized is in perfectly sound mental condition, not non compos mentis, and has positively re-affirmed his decision at least three times over the period of at least a suspended period of time to allow for reconsideration (say 15 or 30 days). Matthew Yglesias » Bishops and Abortion
The project was suspended because of the shortage of fund.
Monetary reform initially dawdled along so slowly that the International Monetary Fund has suspended its bail-out funding.
CAMDEN - Trash collection will be suspended Saturday in parts of Camden due to an expected snowstorm. CourierPostOnline.com - News
The curtain is suspended from a covered curtain wire or a thin curtain pole. Collins Complete Books of Soft Furnishings
Rather than stones, organic objects like birds wings, bones, crayfish and seeds, are suspended several inches above a mud pathway.
So, much as I’m weary of western politicians who couldn’t tell the Ka’ba from a peach cobbler going on about how extremists are “perverting” Islam — how the hell do they know? — this article, which got its author suspended from his radio talk show hosting job for its claim that “Islam is a terror organization,” is truly, profoundly stupid. Excommunicated from the Ummah?
The infantryman carried a substantial ammunition pouch, bayonet, water-bottle, and ‘snapsack’ for a day's rations suspended from broad cross-belts, usually made of buff leather and pipeclayed to inconvenient whiteness.
In some states, a fifth of the attorneys who have represented defendants in capital cases have subsequently been suspended, disbarred or arrested.
The two other plants where operations are suspended are the Takasaki plant in Gunma Prefecture and the Kofu plant in Yamanashi Prefecture, which together account for about 15% of the company's early-stage chip production capacity. Chip Maker Runs at Half Speed
The mobility of electrons is influenced by cellular metabolism and the concentration of charged particles suspended in body fluid.
Formal talks for normalizing diplomatic relations have been suspended since October 2002.
He was suspended from working for a year and avoided a jail term after his barrister pleaded that his career was in ruins. Times, Sunday Times
Joe Wetsch said into the mike boom that was suspended in front of his mouth.
Riders are suspended in the jaws of a vampire bat, their legs dangling free, as they swoop over the treetops and soar through the sky.
The situation is much more interesting when there is a mixture of solids that are suspended in a liquid (a slurry).
The prisoner told lawyers he was tortured using the strappado, in which a prisoner is suspended from a bar with handcuffs.
These yield an unearthly effect, especially since the artist has draped his monogram, suspended from a garland, across the top of the picture.
But sales had to be suspended after a huge rush. The Sun
A judge has suspended a ban on the magazine pending a full inquiry.
Chelmsford crown court had heard her admit grievous bodily harm and she was sentenced to two years prison, suspended for two years. The Sun
And time can go into suspended animation for 18 months. The Sun
I was desirous, but unable, to obey; these gleams were such as preluded the stroke by which he fell; the hour, perhaps, was the same -- I shuddered as if I had beheld, suspended over me, the exterminating sword. Wieland; or the Transformation. An American Tale.
The Organization of American States suspended Honduras and has continued to resist efforts of Secretary of State Clinton to pressure them into readmitting Honduras. Bill Quigley: One Year Later: Honduras Resistance Strong Despite US Supported Coup
It has been declared safe after interim work to build a protection deck underneath its suspended ceiling. Times, Sunday Times
This is the first bike that will exploit the Renovatio's frameless concept: The 132-cubic-inch, S&S-built engine is a load-bearing structural element, suspended like a girder between the stupendous front engine mount and rear pivot. The Master of Machine-Age Motorcycles
He was suspended on full pay until the hearing.
Caoutchouc, as it exudes from the trees, is a milk-like emulsion, wherein globules of caoutchouc proper are suspended in a gummy solution.
The lantern is suspended from chains fixed to the center of a shell cartouche with a representation of another royal crown painted on the ceiling of the Queen's Staircase.
If a veterinarian - just as in the case of a doctor - is deemed to be highly incompetent or to have a mental or physical incapacity, he or she should be suspended forthwith.
Suspended in amniotic fluid, the fetus is also weightless.
The anaesthetist and the trainee nurse were found guilty of involuntary wounding and given one-month suspended jail sentences. Times, Sunday Times
The gateway had what is called a portcullis; that is, a heavy iron gate suspended by chains, so as to rise and fall. Rollo in Scotland
She lay in a state of suspended animation, waiting for dawnlight, when she would rise.
In hummocky terrain, the wire is presently suspended above the soil surface over hollows.
The suspended assistant police commissioner had stood stoically as the jury forewoman was asked 20 times for a verdict.
One officer was suspended from duty while two others remain at work but on restricted duties. Times, Sunday Times
Wires are placed in a wire holder or a reel is suspended from the worker's belt for accessibility.
A statement from the army and defense spokesman on Wednesday says three generals and one colonel have been suspended for what the government termed "indiscipline. The Seattle Times
Further, the flavoured and tasteable body is suspended in a liquid matter, and this is tangible. On the Soul
A veil, scarf, or kerchief may be suspended from the head and attached there with a headband or hairpins, or it may variably wrap the head, neck, and shoulders.
He was suspended from this post in July last year.
With Jamie Pollock suspended for one match, Proctor could press his claims for a recall to the squad.
Instead, we put the nanopowder in water and add dispersant to keep the fine particles evenly suspended and in close contact.
-- By having a coil of insulated wire, with a magnet suspended so as to turn freely within the coil, forming what is called a galvanoscope. Electricity for Boys
We found a lifeboat suspended 10 feet above the deck and bedded down under a tarpaulin.
Hall was suspended from his post the following day.
Intent, beside the form it has in language, where it makes the soul of grammar, has many other modes of expression, in mathematical and logical reasoning, in action, and in those contemplated and suspended acts which we call estimation, policy, or morals. The Life of Reason
There, she reads the newspaper, which hangs suspended from a rack by a bamboo rod.
A polarity is set up between the assertive convex solidity of Broadcasting House and the receptive concavity and lightness of the suspended facade.
Supernatant fractions were removed and TCA precipitated as described above, and pellet fractions were resuspended in solubilization buffer. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
When the shutter of your camera opens for that fraction of a second, photons of light stream in and strike the silver halide grains suspended in the gelatin emulsion.
So the 10m ropes provide an ideal home where they can remain suspended above the seabed and out of reach of starfish, crabs, whelks and other predators.
The supernatant was collected and the sediment suspended in a double volume of water, acidified and centrifuged.
The onus is put on the student's parents to get him or her to school for the period of time the student is suspended.
A COUNCIL chief who evicted elderly tenants from bungalows and then moved into one has been suspended on full pay. The Sun
In all the houses, suspended straight-flight stairs have treads and risers made of continuous sheets of folded steel with flat steel stringers.
The country's largest mobile phone operator suspended its chat services last year after it became concerned about some content in unmoderated chatrooms.
Two local officials have been suspended for allowing the building to be constructed. Times, Sunday Times
She was given a suspended jail term and 200 hours' unpaid work. The Sun
She admitted theft and got a suspended jail term. The Sun
The race went less well for Pat Eddery who was suspended for two days for careless riding on the unplaced Hilton Head and also picked up a #150 fine for not riding to his draw.
Polite, deferential service in an old-school Continental-restaurant mode increases the sense of being suspended in a bubble of privilege for a few comfortable hours.
Zanini, Italy: Suspended six months by ICF on June 8, 2002, for possession of insulin syringe at 2001 Giro d'Italia. USATODAY.com - Tour to test early and often
This allowance was to be suspended during the absence from Oxford of any inferior bedel, whether occasioned by his own affairs or those of the University. The Customs of Old England
The hawser is a thick rope, or cable, to which the lifebuoy is suspended when in action. Battles with the Sea
The floors span from the core to a second row of columns then cantilever to support the suspended glass block facade.
JD (S) leader M C Nanaiah said Palemarâ€ ™ s SO P B Belagavi was raided by the Lokayukta in 2002 for possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income and was later suspended. The Times of India
Mitch, and possibly Harley, would be immediately suspended indefinitely.
Synthetic stuccos consist of sand suspended in a mixture of acrylic polymer, latex and pigments.
She caught the creatures in a trap, skinned and disembowelled them and suspended them by their tails in a ‘strong sugar syrup in a cast-iron saucepan over a slow heat‘.
A UN official said aid programs will be suspended until there's adequate protection for relief convoys.
Weinstein, who has shown his work at the Sonnabend Gallery in New York City for nearly two decades, found that his Facebook account was suspended after doing no more than posting the art-historical icon, and despite it being one of the biggest draws of international audiences to the MusÃ©e d'Orsay in Paris. G. Roger Denson: Courbet's Origin of the World Still Too Scandalous for Media-Savvy Facebook!
A suspended election would involve extraordinary efforts to secure and protect ballots and voting systems.
The first thing one sees when approaching the dance studio is a hanging apple, suspended in mid-air.
On either side of it, the city seemed to give way entirely for the airway; it hung, suspended, like a floating river cutting through a steep, shining landscape.
After the explosion dust was suspended in the air.
Illusionist and escapologist Shahid Malik broke free from a straitjacket while suspended upside down from a burning rope.
It's one thing to bowdlerize copy for family consumption, it's quite another to make it sound like someone is being suspended in an act of ultra-PC idiocy because you don't print the actual quote that got them in trouble.
Three of the suspended schemes had received conditional approval from his predecessor. Times, Sunday Times
At the root of the hysterical fear of premature burial was the fact that physicians recognized, and patients suffered, a number of peculiar conditions characterized by immobility and insensibility, and known variously as trance, catalepsy, cataplexy, and suspended animation. The Serpent and the Rainbow
Students designed small luminaires that were integrated into a larger-scale installation called ‘LiteBEAM,’ a repetitive, luminous, suspended ceiling system.
The show mainly consists of sculptural pieces – be it wall-bound relief, free-standing and/or suspended? done in fiberglass, silicone and/or plastic. Out with the Old, In with the (Leroy) New « BAHAY TALINHAGA
Silver, specie suspended mines discovered demonetized remonetized certificates free coinage of movement party A School History of the United States
Reuters The bride's earrings, by Robinson Pelham, were diamond-set stylised oak leaves with a pear shaped diamond set drop and a pavé set diamond acorn suspended in the centre, writes Ms. Rohwedder. The Dress
And here we would express our sincere thanks to all such as alleviated so greatly the burdens war had imposed upon us -- alleviated these by friendly sympathies, which found expression in deeds of kindness and love, and that at a time and in circumstances when the sword of Damocles was suspended over their heads, for to give an enemy a drop of cold water was then considered a great crime! In the Shadow of Death
He said that four health officials had been suspended and an investigation was under way. Times, Sunday Times
A tag, a community service order and a suspended sentence would have been far more productive. Times, Sunday Times
This fixation step was repeated twice and the resulting cells were resuspended in a small volume of fixative solution and carefully placed onto clean slides.
Both it and Emmis got leverage ratios suspended in exchange for tighter restrictions such as prepaying excess cash to their borrowers. Radio Firms Beg Lenders for Mercy
Most of the children are weighed, the smallest kicking and screaming as they are slipped into bags and suspended from scales, the dial sometimes barely registering their existence.
It has also suspended beer sales on domestic flights in economy and business class. Times, Sunday Times
He and a group of friends had been playing on a swing suspended between two trees in a field near his home.
Suspended some 300 feet above a ravine, the footbridge would span a quarter mile between two mountains.
She will get to make thaumatropes, which are cardboard disks with drawings on them suspended on string.
At the head of the room, a large screen was suspended from the ceiling and onto it was projected what appeared to be the layout for their graduation.
TALLAHASSEE | An investigator has been fired and four other Tallahassee police officers were suspended without pay for two weeks for their roles in a botched drug sting that led to the death of a young informant. News | LL | http://www.theledger.com
No doubt, these chronic cases are due to suspended innervation and are not to be classed with the ordinary case of atrophy of the abductor muscles of the humerus (supra - and infraspinatus) as in the usual case of Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
Suspended from the ceiling just behind the white marble altar, the cross is backed by a swath of deep purple fabric.
If the oscillations are not damped out, they could break the fragile lines of other suspended weights and become amplified.
A senior council employee was subsequently suspended on full pay.
A deputy head teacher has been suspended from a North Lincolnshire primary school, awaiting trial on charges of kerb-crawling.
The drug is suspended in a saline solution.
A lamp was suspended from the ceiling above us.
Her clothes are suspended from the ceiling to save space. Times, Sunday Times
The artwork presents a series of large silk veils suspended from the ceiling, which are imprinted with images of mothers whose children were fatally shot.
Two microliters of whole blood were suspended in 0.5% low melting point agarose and sandwiched between a layer of 0.6% normal melting point agarose and a top layer of 0.5% low melting point agarose on fully frosted slides.
That Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, jailed 20,000 people without charges, forcibly shut down hundreds of newspapers that criticized him, and sent in federal troops to shut down state legislatures was irrelevant because he proclaimed “that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” #200 for Abe the Warmonger « Antiwar.com Blog
Down goes the heavy lance; down goes the ponderous shield, suspended by a _telamon: "Ohitarge grant cume peises al col_!" down goes the plated byrnie, "_Ohi grant broine cum me vas apesant_" [Footnote: _La Chancun de Willame_, lines Homer and His Age
The crowd gathered in Islamabad to support Pakistan suspended chief justice.
Flights were suspended pending investigation of the crash.
If raids were suspended for 48 hours and the unserviceable planes were all serviced, this would increase the figure to 500.
Jesse, suspended from his job as police chief of Paradise, is a drunken recluse, much to the disgust of his oddly unaffectionate dog. Tom Selleck, 'Jesse Stone' keep doing what they do best
She has been suspended from office and her impeachment trial is set to take place during the Olympics. Times, Sunday Times
Although Universal Prince remains in the two-mile race, several bookmakers and Victoria's pari-mutuel suspended betting on last season's champion three-year-old colt.
The primordial ocean provided an ideal medium for their formation, for the primordial ocean was large, and water can hold the coacervates suspended for a long period of time without being disturbed.
Chelmsford crown court had heard her admit grievous bodily harm and she was sentenced to two years prison, suspended for two years. The Sun
The milk of an ass, a mare, or a goat was put into a leather bag or skin and, tightly closed, this was then suspended beneath the belly of a horse.
Beds are set on platforms or suspended from ceilings, bathtubs are hewn from blocks of black granite or pale limestone, and the bare wood floorboards are wide, limed and lacquered.
And seagrasses are especially sensitive to sediment since they need light for photosynthesis suspended sediments make the water less clear, reducing light penetrance. John F. Bruno: Impacts of the Japanese Tsunami on Ocean Life
A young man is suspended naked from a tree, prior to being flayed alive for daring to make music more harmonious than Apollo's.
Hanging off the bottom stair; her right foot suspended above the floor.
He was suspended for one game by the NBA on Tuesday for yelling a sexual vulgarity at a female fan during a game.
The fixative solution was partially but not completely removed, the pellet was resuspended, dropped onto pre-cleaned microscope slides and dried for 24 h at room temperature.
Much of it has a suspended quality, of time stretched out, elongated, with overlapping waves of strummings that variously suggest guitars, harps, bells, and dulcimers constellating about a central drone.
Who can resist the flinty crispness of baked pecans, suspended in a maple-goo inside short, buttery pastry?
At the midships section the keel is suspended above the seabed and there is plenty of space to swim through.
The sinuosity of the loft is taken back by the upside-down cones that, I suspended as stalactites, they channel downward the light Coni Rovesci by Duilio Damilano
The whole project is in suspended animation while we wait for permission to proceed.
Aerial bombs or radio beacons are suspended from external bomb racks on detachable pylons.
At present, most studies are focused on dissolved phosphorus concentrations and distributions in our country, and little is known about the suspended paniculate phosphorus and the phosphorus dynamics.
Last night both were suspended from duty as their force probed the claims. The Sun
The garments were hung on fabric-covered padded rods and suspended from the ceiling by nylon filament thread.
Incidents this year at its Njord and Visund fields in the Norwegian North Sea have added to Statoil's problems, while production remains suspended in Libya. Statoil's Net Profit Soars
The nitrated peptides were eluted with 50% acetonitrile/0. 2% trifluoroacetic acid, dried, resuspended in 1.5 µl of matrix suspension (4 mg α-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid, 0.8 mg 3,5-dihydroxybenzoic acid in 50% acetonitrile/0. 1% trifluoroacetic acid, 0.1 mM fucose), and deposited on a stainless steel target. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Those who issue dimissory letters contrary to the form of this decree, shall be ipso jure suspended from their office and benefices for one year.
The water from the source is pumped into the primary filter initially to reduce the level of turbidity, suspended solids and organic matter.
The ferry service has been suspended for the day because of bad weather.
Moskin is obsessed with the idea of cheese, admitting her fantasy macaroni is "nothing more than tender elbows of pasta suspended in pure molten cheddar, with a chewy, golden-brown crust of cheese on top. How to cook perfect macaroni cheese
The crew's foreman is a player recovering from drug addiction after having been suspended from baseball — Texas Rangers star Josh Hamilton. Shark sighting likely gives ABC a boost in British Open ratings
Already suspended, the 27-year-old Riccò was askedto explain himself to the team management after he aroused suspicion upon his admission to the hospital last week, suffering from kidney problems due to a suspected blood infection. Vacansoleil fires Riccardo Riccò
The chairs drawn up to the dining-room table are inlaid with strings of bellflowers suspended from rings, testifying to their Baltimore origin.
Chemists are most often concerned with colloids in which solid or liquid particles are suspended in a liquid.
In some bizarre animator's joke, they were literally suspended, all hung in the air in a big room.
He is said to have been suspended on suspicion of committing serious misconduct. The Sun
Up here, suspended dizzyingly more than 100 feet above the ground, it is easy to see how the great stone buttresses that support the magnificent cathedral have been eroded by time.
She was found guilty of this in June and suspended from office. Times, Sunday Times
They could also be suspended on wires and coupled with turbines to provide power. Times, Sunday Times
Eventually some of the remarks got a bit unpleasant and the ability to comment was temporarily suspended to allow everyone time to cool off.
Unveiled women volunteer shy smiles as they continue with their chores: scrubbing pans, spinning wool, or in one case churning butter in a goatskin suspended from a wooden tripod.
These nanotube devices could be suspended in a solution and used for photocatalytic solar hydrogen production.
As my husband and I stroll along the banks of the Gomti river, enjoying the wind blown, kaleidoscopic saris, freshly embroidered, starched and washed by the dhobis or washer men, then suspended to dry, we meet, chat and fall in love with a soulful dhobi. Shahnaz Taplin-Chinoy: The Ecstasy and Agony of India -- From the Political to the Tribal
His long robe was of dark cloth, cinctured round the waist with his rich sword-belt, from which was suspended How I Found Livingstone
Grasping her prey with her legs and jaws, in another moment the wriggling body is passive in her grasp, subdued by the potent anæsthetic of her sting -- a hypodermic injection which instantly produces the semblance of death in its insect victim, reducing all the vital functions to the point of dissolution, and then holds them suspended -- literally prolongs life, it would sometimes seem, even beyond its normal duration -- by a process which I might call ductile equation. My Studio Neighbors
A fire engine and two support vehicles were scrambled and trains to the airport were temporarily suspended. The Sun
John Galvin also starts for the first time this season and will partner John Quane in midfield in the absence of the suspended Jason Stokes.
He was suspended in October 2002 pending the financial management of the financial affairs of the company.
It was nevertheless suspended for three years, the brothers forced to attend sensitivity-training sessions.
The floor slab perimeters are suspended via steel hanging rods located in alternate curtain walling mullions with no columns at ground floor level to compromise the huge entrance foyer.
He was suspended from his job and resigned soon after, although he initially denied any wrongdoing. Times, Sunday Times
Two senior executives are suspended while the authorities try to find anticompetitive behaviour at the airline. Times, Sunday Times
The western bay of the vault, built in 1362, carries a hanging boss suspended by eight dramatic flying ribs.
NASCAR suspended mayfield May 9 for testing positive for methamphetamines. ESPN.com
The use of subacetate of lead should, in all cases, be followed by the addition of "alumina cream" (aluminic hydrate suspended in water) [2] in about double the volume of the subacetate solution used, for the purpose of completing the clarification, precipitating excess of lead, and facilitating filtration. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
The UN has suspended relief flights because of shelling around the airport.
At the same time, a canopy of strings induce sympathetic vibrations in resonant aluminum panels suspended between the monitors.
Then follows the tying of the skirt of the dress, which is suspended on hooks round the bottom of the corset, the buttoning of the corsage, the preliminary tapping and caressing necessary to make the folds of the skirt sit well, and then madame la baronne makes her appearance triumphantly before her friends assembled in the adjoining saloon. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
The court also said the suspended, democratically elected parliament had to reconvene.
Seawright was first suspended and, when he failed to withdraw his remarks and apologize, was expelled from the Party.
This was removed with a solvent suspended in a gel that gently dissolved the old varnish. Times, Sunday Times
He said that four health officials had been suspended and an investigation was under way. Times, Sunday Times
Yeast cultures were pelleted, deflocculated twice by washing with buffer and resuspended in the same buffer at a density of 10 cells/ml.
During the tests, aerosolized spores were captured with an aerosol sampler and suspended in a solution.
This cavity points out the exact spot where the force of the injury has been greatest, where death of certain cells of the keratogenous membrane has resulted, and where the natural formation of horn has for a time been suspended. Diseases of the Horse's Foot
The western bay of the vault, built in 1362, carries a hanging boss suspended by eight dramatic flying ribs.
Turbidity is a measure of the cloudiness of the water caused by suspended particles.
Lancaster had already made his resolve clear when, within days of his appointment, he suspended Danny Care, the England player to whom he is closest, after he was arrested for drink-driving. Six Nations: Stuart Lancaster committed to England's long-term vision
They're all suspended in mid-air and don't really have anything to say.

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