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US
/səˈspɛnsfəɫ/
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[ UK /səspˈɛnsfəl/ ]
[ UK /səspˈɛnsfəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- (of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense
How To Use suspenseful In A Sentence
- The movie's big chase sequence is suspenseful.
- This soft cover book was published at the end of last year and it is another in the suspenseful thriller genre for which Leather is so well known.
- They were baffled when I refused to change quoted words to make them more suspenseful, euphonious or, with the puritanism of Americans, less coarse.
- The book is a much more intelligent and suspenseful thriller than the movie.
- Any special effects are kept to a bare minimum (that is, if you consider a bolt of lighting in the sky an effect), and the scenes are about as suspenseful as watching my three year old nephew get static shocks from walking across a shag carpet.
- They trap you and lure you in with catchy taglines and suspenseful previews.
- And the internal is absolutely fascinating, equally if not more suspenseful, a integral part of the plot in a way not many writers can pull off. Advance reader reviews of The Last Secret by Mary Mcgarry Morris.
- Yet despite all its suspensefulness, The Talented Mr. Ripley when viewed from a slightly different angle approaches the comic: Tom must switch from one persona to another like a vaudeville quick-change artist, even as the plot complications start to recall classic farces about the mixups resulting from mistaken identities. This Woman Is Dangerous
- The gimmick lets Nolan have three clocks ticking down instead of one which should be killingly suspenseful. 'Inception' A Masterpiece? Only In Someone's Dream
- Once you get above chapter book level, it seems like almost all new fiction for kids is (or wants to be) thrilling, exciting, harum-scarum, suspenseful, non-stop, etc. Archive 2009-05-01