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.
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Or maybe he should be suspended and forego his salary for a year.
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Jason Williams,
The Enquirer,
9 May 2023
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The teams did not suspend the game—but instead played the final minute as medics tried to save Hughes.
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Solcyre Burga,
Time,
4 Jan. 2023
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Clamp a bolt, an awl (shown here), or a large nail in a vise to suspend a mower blade to check its balance.
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Roy Berendsohn,
Popular Mechanics,
17 Mar. 2023
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When the water is stagnant and still, the bass scatter, suspend, and become hard to catch.
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Shaye Baker,
Field & Stream,
18 Apr. 2023
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Proceeds from the podcast will go to staffers on each of their shows, which have been suspended because of the strike.
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Todd Spangler,
Variety,
29 Aug. 2023
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The debate came the same day as Chris Christie, the most vocal critic of Trump in the race, suspended his campaign.
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Averi Harper,
ABC News,
11 Jan. 2024
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All but 14 days of a two-year prison sentence were suspended.
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Ramsey Touchberry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
26 Sep. 2024
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He was often suspended with his arms and lower legs off the ground.
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Ct Jones,
Rolling Stone,
18 Dec. 2023
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He was suspended without pay, the NYPD said in a statement.
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Landon Mion,
Fox News,
15 June 2024
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Both the size of your breasts and the area of the ligaments that suspend them affects the gravitational pull.
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Hallie Levine,
Health,
13 Feb. 2023
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For pike or trout, suspend a jerkbait that will hover in place after each twitch.
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Joe Cermele,
Outdoor Life,
7 Feb. 2023
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Green was later suspended for one game of the Warriors’ first round series against the Kings in this year’s playoffs.
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Charisma Madarang,
Rolling Stone,
14 Dec. 2023
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Take a curtain or shower rod and suspend it from the wire shelf using snap-closure leather straps.
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Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
11 Oct. 2022
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Step by step, social norms and the rules of family life are suspended.
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Marta Balaga,
Variety,
22 May 2024
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Again, the officer had run his plates and saw that his license was suspended.
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Shira Moolten,
Sun Sentinel,
25 June 2024
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This isn’t the first time that an MLB player has been suspended for using an anti-gay slur.
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Abby Monteil,
Them,
13 Aug. 2024
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A couple of times, the child was formally suspended, Gomes said.
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Sarah Butrymowicz,
USA TODAY,
3 Apr. 2024
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All public transport in the city — trams and buses — was suspended.
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Bradford Betz,
Fox News,
23 Nov. 2023
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For tackling and punching the student multiple times, Morrow was suspended from the team for six months and served 46 days in a work-release program last summer after being convicted of misdemeanor assault.
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Kyle Newman,
The Denver Post,
10 Nov. 2024
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Since suspending his campaign in August, the independent has stumped for the former president on the campaign trail, and has been reported to have informally been offered posts in a future Trump Cabinet as a result of this endorsement.
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David Faris,
Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2024
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