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How do you use Suspend in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like change or alter, plus the exact meaning.

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Suspend in a sentence

Suspend meaning

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

Synonyms of Suspend

change alter modify postpone set aside break interrupt freeze kick out throw out expel debar hang up hang prorogue

Suspend vertaling naar Nederlands

suspenderen

Using Suspend

  • The main meaning on this page is: To halt something temporarily. | To hold in an undetermined or undecided state. | To discontinue or interrupt a function, task, position, or event.
  • Useful related words include: change, alter, modify, postpone.
  • Possible Dutch translations are: suspenderen.
  • In the example corpus, suspend often appears in combinations such as: to suspend, suspend the, suspend its.

Context around Suspend

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 29.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 1 start, 14 middle, 5 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Suspend

  • In this selection, "suspend" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, temporarily, immediately, heron, nuclear and military stand out and add context to how "suspend" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include ban or suspend, bill to suspend the u and temporarily suspend. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "suspend" sits close to words such as crafted, dispatched and doubts, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with suspend

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Ask David Stern if he would suspend Michael Jordan. (9 words)

And no boo boo, the UK would not have been embarrassed to suspend our constitution. (15 words)

A campy film needs to suspend its dignity for the sake of sincerity and true comedy. (16 words)

There was an FBI request, numerous times, Taibbi puts it out, FBI San Francisco requests to ban certain accounts, Twitter personnel in this case went on to look for reasons to suspend all four accounts that the FBI wanted to ban or suspend. (43 words)

A bill to suspend the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling and avert a disastrous default cleared a key procedural hurdle in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting the stage for an vote on the bipartisan debt deal itself. (43 words)

Among the study's limitations, the authors note that they did not analyze race and ethnicity aside from broad categories, nor were they able to analyze the behaviors or personal biases that led to school officials' decisions to suspend or arrest students. (42 words)

Example sentences (20)

There was an FBI request, numerous times, Taibbi puts it out, FBI San Francisco requests to ban certain accounts, Twitter personnel in this case went on to look for reasons to suspend all four accounts that the FBI wanted to ban or suspend.

Councillors Brad Laviolette and Kendra Bourke moved to suspend Heron in October 2022 and then kept moving to re-suspend her every time the suspension ended.

Chinese state media has cast Beijing as crucial to forcing talks between Trump and Kim with its "freeze for freeze" pitch for North Korea to suspend nuclear and missile tests, and South Korea and the United States to suspend military drills.

A bill to suspend the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling and avert a disastrous default cleared a key procedural hurdle in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting the stage for an vote on the bipartisan debt deal itself.

A campy film needs to suspend its dignity for the sake of sincerity and true comedy.

After a follow-up discussion with Hurst, Frizzell directed the city’s IT department to temporarily suspend Binda’s ID badge access to city hall until further training was conducted.

Among Crais’ documents is a list of recommendations for the University Senate regarding the open expression policy, which first calls for the Senate to “immediately suspend” the policy and conduct a full review.

Among the study's limitations, the authors note that they did not analyze race and ethnicity aside from broad categories, nor were they able to analyze the behaviors or personal biases that led to school officials' decisions to suspend or arrest students.

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Anazor stated also that the NWC and the National Executive Committee should suspend any move to amend or recommend amendments to any provisions of the party’s Constitution.

And if the local government doesn’t do it then they suspend the constitution and do it and still blame the local government under the cloak of corruption.

And no boo boo, the UK would not have been embarrassed to suspend our constitution.

A “number of considerations” lie behind the decision to suspend work on the plant, though specifics have not been shared.

A Quebec Superior Court judge has denied a request to suspend the province's ban on prayer room spaces in public schools.

A Russia-linked ransomware gang is reportedly behind the Royal Mail cyber attack that forced it to suspend international postal.

As a Commerce Department investigation into China's potential circumvention of anti-dumping was underway last year, Biden's declaration moved to suspend potential tariffs on solar panels that could result from the inquiry.

Ask David Stern if he would suspend Michael Jordan.

At the end of the hearing, the committee voted to send a agreed to by Speaker (R-CA) and President to suspend the nation’s debt ceiling for two years while imposing federal spending caps.

At the risk of downplaying comic book culture and superhero culture, most readers come to these stories understanding they have to suspend a certain amount of disbelief regarding each character and not only their stories, but their names and appearance.

BBC director general Tim Davie, who took the decision to suspend Lineker, said he was seeking a resolution to the dispute, but insisted he will not resign over his handling of the affair.

Before Arevalo’s eventual second-round win on August 20, Currichiche’s office sought to suspend his political party, provoking international consternation over attempted election interference.

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Common combinations with suspend

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "suspend" in a sentence?
An example: "There was an FBI request, numerous times, Taibbi puts it out, FBI San Francisco requests to ban certain accounts, Twitter personnel in this case went on to look for reasons to suspend all four accounts that the FBI wanted to ban or suspend." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "suspend" from authentic English texts.
What does "suspend" mean?
Suspend means: To halt something temporarily.
What are synonyms of "suspend"?
Common synonyms of "suspend" include: change, alter, modify, postpone, set aside, break, interrupt, freeze. Plus 7 more synonyms.
What is "suspend" in Dutch?
"suspend" translates to Dutch as: suspenderen.
How many example sentences with "suspend" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains at least 10+ example sentences with "suspend", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.