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Meanings of suspenseful in English

(Of a situation) characterized by or causing suspense.

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The king could affix a suspensive veto to the acts of the Cortes.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
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We are not to be allowed even a suspensive veto.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
3
In 1768 Paucton conceived the idea of an apparatus with two screws, suspensive and propulsive.
Robur the Conqueror
4
The question was whether the veto-power was suspensive or absolute as to amendments of the Constitution.
Poems and Songs
5
You mean those little metal balls that they used to put in machinery before suspensive magnetic interfaces?
To Honor You Call Us
1
Victorian audiences found the ghosts in their favorite melodramas provided emphatic sensations, supernatural thrills, and cliff-hanging action.
Hiding the Elephant
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This was one of those cliff-hanging Tours, but Lance Armstrong was not the man on the edge.
The Irish Times
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The lack of commitment may surprise viewers, given that the final episode of season two ended with a cliff-hanging storyline.
Independent.ie
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I have tried to tell this story as it was experienced at the time, forward rather than backward, preserving its cliff-hanging excitement and unpredictability.
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
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This yields well-photographed tourist sites, several cliff-hanging sequences -a few literally that -and a capable returning cast playing now-familiar roles in an action-fantasy.
Reuters
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The next three days will be a long, nail-biting time for everyone.
The Irish Times
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Everything had been nail-biting and I remembered why I never went anywhere.
Black Deutschland
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It was a great success with nail-biting action on the track.
The South African
4
It's that nail-biting time again for Junior Cert teachers and their young students.
The Irish Times
5
Mursi was declared the winner on Sunday, a nail-biting week after voting ended.
Reuters
Usage of suspenseful in English
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But it's fun, it's an extra suspenseful element to it, Davis said.
Reuters
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It's suspenseful and adds an incredible sense of scale to the movie.
News.com.au
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Well, we was robbed of a suspenseful episode up until this moment.
The Guardian
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With great performances including from Andrea Riseborough, the suspenseful series will grip you.
News.com.au
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How does his new, suspenseful novel compare with his much-loved music?
Radio NZ
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The novel ends unresolved, but on a note of suspenseful menace.
The Guardian
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A suspenseful calm descended on Troy after the tumult with the Greek visitors.
Helen of troy
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The clock factor turned a regular game into a suspenseful race.
While galileo preys
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It pirouetted on its rim in the suspenseful manner of a rolling coin.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
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Taut, stylish and suspenseful, Blood has the makings of must-see TV.
The Irish Times
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His final, suspenseful appearance faced him with losing this money or greatly increasing it.
Begin again: a biography of john cage
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His final outcomes, however, have become golf's most suspenseful drama.
Reuters
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The point of the show isn't to be suspenseful, or even to be entertaining.
Reuters
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Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and post-modern trip
RING
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Stories are less than suspenseful and characters are mainly two-dimensional.
Reuters
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Not disturbing or haunting or anything, but suspenseful, exciting and absolutely full of jumpscares.
Radio NZ
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