WordNet
adj. being in a tense state [syn: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, in suspense(p), jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight]
Usage examples of "in suspense".
Hamid-Jones waited in suspense for anything that might be interpreted as a response.
The proposed transfer of the bungalow remained very conveniently in suspense.
I was warned at the outset we might very well fail in our design: yet never dreamed of what proved to be the fact, that we should be left four-and-twenty hours in suspense and come within an ace of ultimate rejection.
No one else knew, for they'd stopped nowhere between Barnett and here, and Ransom had taken too much pleasure out of keeping them dangling in suspense to tell anyone what she intended.
He remained in suspense, his hand on the knob, until she turned off the alarm.
For a time scientific zeal consumed the secretary, and the question of the plans remained in suspense.
Then both he and the girl settled into waiting in suspense for the soldiers to come stamping in.
He was not long in suspense for almost at once a kitchen boy in heavy wooden shoes darted through a door.