How to Use suspend in a Sentence

suspend

verb

• We can suspend the rules just this once.
• They have suspended the peace talks.
• The city suspended bus service during the storm.
• He was suspended from the team for missing too many practices.
• The principal suspended the student from school for fighting.
• Her license to practice law was suspended.
• He's driving with a suspended license.
• The company was forced to suspend operations.
• The police officers were suspended without pay for their conduct.
• I advise suspending judgment until the investigation is over.
• Or maybe he should be suspended and forego his salary for a year.
  — Jason Williams, The Enquirer, 9 May 2023
• The teams did not suspend the game—but instead played the final minute as medics tried to save Hughes.
  — Solcyre Burga, Time, 4 Jan. 2023
• Clamp a bolt, an awl (shown here), or a large nail in a vise to suspend a mower blade to check its balance.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2023
• When the water is stagnant and still, the bass scatter, suspend, and become hard to catch.
  — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 18 Apr. 2023
• Proceeds from the podcast will go to staffers on each of their shows, which have been suspended because of the strike.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 29 Aug. 2023
• The debate came the same day as Chris Christie, the most vocal critic of Trump in the race, suspended his campaign.
  — Averi Harper, ABC News, 11 Jan. 2024
• All but 14 days of a two-year prison sentence were suspended.
  — Ramsey Touchberry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Sep. 2024
• He was often suspended with his arms and lower legs off the ground.
  — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
• He was suspended without pay, the NYPD said in a statement.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 15 June 2024
• Both the size of your breasts and the area of the ligaments that suspend them affects the gravitational pull.
  — Hallie Levine, Health, 13 Feb. 2023
• For pike or trout, suspend a jerkbait that will hover in place after each twitch.
  — Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 7 Feb. 2023
• Green was later suspended for one game of the Warriors’ first round series against the Kings in this year’s playoffs.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
• Step by step, social norms and the rules of family life are suspended.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 22 May 2024
• Again, the officer had run his plates and saw that his license was suspended.
  — Shira Moolten, Sun Sentinel, 25 June 2024
• This isn’t the first time that an MLB player has been suspended for using an anti-gay slur.
  — Abby Monteil, Them, 13 Aug. 2024
• A couple of times, the child was formally suspended, Gomes said.
  — Sarah Butrymowicz, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
• All public transport in the city — trams and buses — was suspended.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 23 Nov. 2023
• In that case, the council suspended Ridley-Thomas on the same day that the politician entered a formal plea.
  — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
• Her criminal case was suspended, and with it the possibility of bail, until the findings were reported.
  — Christopher Damien, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
• Trains between Madrid and the region’s capital, also called Valencia, have been suspended, as have other major public services in other affected regions.
  — CNN, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024