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How to use suspend in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Suspend means to halt something temporarily. Example: “The meeting was suspended for lunch.”

Examples of suspend by meaning

verbTo halt something temporarily.

  • The meeting was suspended for lunch.
  • Services between Glasgow Queen Street and Edinburgh Waverley via Falkirk High are currently suspended, following a 30-metre breach of the Union Canal that occurred on August 12 after torrential rain and thunderstorms.2020 August 26, “Network News: Major flood damage severs key Edinburgh-Glasgow rail artery”, in Rail, page 21

verbTo discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

  • to suspend a thread of execution in a computer program

verbTo hang freely; underhang.

  • to suspend a ball by a thread
  • The underframe also carries four bonded-rubber mountings, focused upwards and inwards towards the centre of gravity to suspend the body shell.1958 April, “Diesel Railbus for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 275

verbTo debar, or cause to withdraw temporarily, from any privilege, from the execution of an office, from the enjoyment of...

  • to suspend a student from college; to suspend a member of a club

More sentences with suspend

  • Your account will be suspended for an indefinite period of time.From the entry indefinite
  • Pending the outcome of the investigation, the police officer is suspended from duty.From the entry pending
  • The accused received a suspended sentence, which many saw as a let-off.From the entry let-off
  • Although the novel was quite far-fetched, I was willing to suspend my disbelief.From the entry suspend one's disbelief
  • Vortex rings are rarely noticed unless the motion is revealed by suspended particles, as in smoke rings.From the entry vortex ring
  • The power company suspended late fees during the pandemic.From the entry late
  • Pending the investigation, the police officer is suspended from duty.From the entry pending
  • Did you hear Ilyas got suspended? He's such a jokeman.From the entry jokeman
  • It caused quite a brouhaha when the school suspended one of its top students for refusing to adhere to the dress code.From the entry brouhaha
  • With bankruptcy looming, the corporation eventually began eating its young; massive layoffs were announced, and all employee benefits and bonuses were suspended.From the entry eat one's young
  • In February, Trump suspended aid to South Africa, alleging discrimination against White farmers.2025 May 12, Jennifer Hansler, “White South Africans granted refugee status by Trump administration arrive in US”, in CNN, archived from…. From the entry Afrikaner
  • As a punishment, Zhemao and her affiliated accounts were suspended permanently.2022 July 13, Rachel Cheung, “A Bored Chinese Housewife Spent Years Falsifying Russian History on Wikipedia”, in Vice, archived from the…. From the entry separate the wheat from the chaff
  • “You doxx, you get suspended, end of story,” he said, and then abruptly left the call.2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, quoting Elon Musk, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times…. From the entry end of story
  • Last year, this folk activity was suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.2021 March 2, “Villagers rehearse dragon and lion dance in Andi Village, Shanxi”, in huaxia, editor, Xinhua News Agency, archived from the…. From the entry Lingqiu
  • This had been suspended on March 24 due to the COVID-19 outbreak.2020 May 20, “Network News: Clas 345s finally able to serve Heathrow Airport”, in Rail, page 15. From the entry liaise
  • Open access operators were left apart, and this forced Hull Trains to suspend its entire service.2020 April 8, Philip Haigh, “Out of the Current Crisis We could See Meaningful Changes”, in Rail, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer…. From the entry rejig
  • Bus service has been suspended, schools closed and production halted at factories not making daily necessities.2020 December 13, “Asia Today: Japan, S.Korea set new daily records, mull steps”, in AP News, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2020. From the entry Dongning
  • Flash flooding removed ballast, leaving sections of track suspended in the air.2019 November 6, “Flash floods close Marches Line in Wales”, in Rail, page 13. From the entry flash flooding
  • A stackful coroutine is a normal function that can be suspended during execution.2018, Raghavendra Rao K, Kotlin for Enterprise Applications using Java EE, page 64. From the entry stackful
  • Jase was controversially suspended and prevented from playing in the granny.2016, Brent Harvey, Boomer, Macmillan Publishers Aus., →ISBN. From the entry granny
  • Here we report the positive piezoconductive effect observed in suspended bi- and multi-layer graphene.2015, Kang Xu, Ke Wang, Wei Zhao, Wenzhong Bao, Erfu Liu, Yafei Ren, Miao Wang, Yajun Fu, Junwen Zeng, Zhaoguo Li, Wei Zhou, Fengqi Song…. From the entry piezoconductive
  • But now they were confined to a little bathysphere suspended in a world aflood in disaster.2015 September, M. R. O’Connor, “Introduction”, in Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction and the Precarious Future of Wild…. From the entry aflood
  • The radio management came to my house and suspended me immediately.2013, Larry Munson, Tony Barnhart, From Herschel to a Hobnail Boot: The Life and Times of Larry Munson, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry hot
  • Instead, the board voted to suspend the dividend, giving Orton his way at last.2013, Joshua D. Wolff, Western Union and the Creation of the American Corporate Order, 1845-1893, page 187. From the entry pass
  • Their semipronated right hand gripped a manipulandum underneath a horizontally suspended mirror.2013 October 16, Ulrike Hammerbeck et al., “Movement speed is biased by prior experience”, in Journal of Neurophysiology, volume 111, →DOI. From the entry semipronated
  • A body – a corpse – my own, I think – wrapped in tape, suspended in gaffa.2012, Katherine Angel, Unmastered, Penguin, published 2014, page 250. From the entry gaffa
  • There was, of course, another change, Kyle Bartley stepping in at centre-half to replace suspended Dorin Goian.2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record. From the entry usher
  • “My dear Walter,” he replied, “I suspend it on my adunc nose.”2011, A. E. Shipley, 'J.' a Memoir of John Willis Clark, page 238. From the entry adunc
  • His wife, Li Yunhua, was given a two-year jail sentence suspended for three years.2011 May 1, Huang Yan, Benjamin Kang Lim, “China court jails couple for enslaving mentally retarded workers”, in Robert Birsel, editor…. From the entry Tuokexun
  • The dungeon master would suspend his handcuffed victim from that horizontal bar.2010, Jasmine Haynes, “Surrender to Me”, in Hers for the Evening, New York, N.Y.: Heat/Berkley Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 271. From the entry dungeon master
  • Smoke hung in the air and mixed with suspended particles of debris, creating an eerie gray curtain.2010, George W. Bush, Decision Points, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 148. From the entry ground zero
  • The frigid air must have suspended my face’s efforts to dry, unredden, and generally recover itself.2010, Ann Mauren, “Episode”, in In the Spotlight (Mayne Attraction; 1), Mason, Oh.: Ann Mauren Media, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry unredden
  • While it spun, suspended in freefall, it was all things and nothing, a Schrodinger's coin of possibilities.2009, Stef Hall, “Bach, Beethoven, Mozart”, in The Rhinoceros and His Thoughts, page 37. From the entry Schrödinger's
  • Soon he was corkscrewed into place, suspended from the ceiling in an impossible maze of unforgiving circuitry.2007, Mike Monahan, Barracuda, page 107. From the entry corkscrew

Meaning of suspend

  1. verb To halt something temporarily.
  2. verb To hold in an undetermined or undecided state.
  3. verb To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.

Full definition of suspend

Questions about suspend in a sentence

How do you use suspend in a sentence?
Suspend is used as a verb. For example: “The meeting was suspended for lunch.”
What is a short sentence with suspend?
“The meeting was suspended for lunch.”
What does suspend mean?
Suspend means to halt something temporarily.

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