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Example sentences for "suspended"

Lexicographically close words:
suspected; suspecting; suspects; suspence; suspend; suspender; suspenders; suspending; suspends; suspensa
  1. We see suspended on the opposite slope, the humble ale house, resting "Beneath an aged oak's embowering shade.

  2. First we see the gardener leading to market a goat laden with roses; his little son trudges along behind the animal, carrying a basket of roses suspended from a stick on the left shoulder.

  3. Strings of sausage, hams, and other eatables hang from a pole suspended under the ceiling.

  4. Yet he touch'd not the Ground, but with Talons outspread, Hung suspended in Air, at the End of a Thread.

  5. He had on an overcoat made of buckskin, an article of the Indian habit; a deep fringe of the same material hung suspended from two heavy capes that depended from the shoulder.

  6. Had the spectator been able to see, the lamp suspended from a ring in the roof of the cavern, though burning very dimly, would have shown him the big-beaded drops of sweat that now started from the brows of the sleeper.

  7. Another bridge, this one a swinging one, suspended above a whirlpool brings one again to terra firma on the left bank.

  8. Beautiful racemose clusters of red lilies grew from tall slender stalks; from water oaks were suspended air plants and purple orchids; lianas ropelike, hung from the tree tops to the ground.

  9. In the dark corridor without, he was at once seized by some person or persons whose identity has never been made clear, who stopped his mouth with their gloves and then strangled him and suspended his body from a balcony.

  10. This impression was only increased when the conservative ministry suspended the constitutional guarantees and assumed to rule with unlimited authority.

  11. Duke of York, the Duke of Wellington, and Lord Nelson; opposite to these were suspended horse accoutrements, and on each side were scraps of paper, on which were written sentences from the Koran.

  12. It seems to have always been suspended in case of necessity, as, for example, when a man is famished and has nothing else with which to nourish himself.

  13. For this same reason, all temporal occupations are suspended while the great religious solemnities are taking place.

  14. For though it still continued restless enough to keep Braintree and Tubbs in a state of suspended enjoyment in the bows, it showed no signs of getting worse as it went on.

  15. Wave after wave burst over us, and time after time, as we hung suspended on the crest of some great billow, it seemed as if we never could right ourselves.

  16. The five suspended ministers were the founders of "The New Light Christians.

  17. Thereupon the Kentucky synod, over the protest of Calvin Campbell and several others, suspended them; leaving it to their respective presbyteries to restore them upon satisfactory proof of repentance.

  18. By means of another wire a wick is suspended in each tumbler and the tumbler filled with oil.

  19. The other two are on the same principle, but the tumblers are hung in a kind of glass globe which is suspended by brass chains.

  20. As the failure on the part of this single state, suspended the operation of the grants made by all the others, the executive thereof was requested again to convene the legislature, in order to lay the subject once more before them.

  21. The effect of this treaty was suspended until peace should be concluded between France and Great Britain.

  22. But an old legend described Shu as having raised the heavens above the earth, where he still keeps them suspended above him like the Greek Atlas.

  23. First it is scourged for its sins, and then handed over to the buffetings of the tempests, suspended between earth and sky.

  24. Every now and then one or the other of the colonies is treated to 'a deadlock' between the two bodies; and more than once in Victoria public payments have been suspended in consequence, and popular passion has run high.

  25. The principal grasses have a remarkable power of remaining in what seems like a state of suspended animation.

  26. Broken thighs were suspended in slings from poles above the bed, painted the red, white and black that marked German Government Survey posts.

  27. Blanched from loss of blood before I could tie the vessel and stanch the bleeding, his leg suspended in our improvised splints, and on his way to make a splendid recovery.

  28. Far from the scenes of pleasure and delight, Still free to you hangs this suspended highway, Where heavenly glories dawn upon the sight.

  29. And yet, suspended by a single hair, The sword of Fate seems trembling soon to fall.

  30. The floor of the large ballroom is celebrated for its spring, being, it is stated, suspended by chains.

  31. Immediately the Act was suspended the panic disappeared as if by magic, and traders began to breathe freely again.

  32. In a room, pretty plentifully encumbered with rubbish, I saw a charming Snyders; being a dead stag, suspended from a pole.

  33. The sides of the first room were quite embossed with suspended shields, cuirasses, and breast-plates.

  34. Their white streamers, or long lappets, suspended from the back of the black gown, (the designation of the Augustine order) had a very singular appearance.

  35. The power plants were put out of commission, street car traffic practically suspended and schools and factories closed.

  36. The body of a man was suspended in a tree near Glenwood Avenue, beyond reach of the rescuing parties.

  37. Schools and business were suspended and state troops patrolled the town as far as they were able.

  38. Railroad traffic was suspended and interurban traction service had been abandoned.

  39. All railroad traffic in Cleveland was suspended because of washouts and no trains entered or left.

  40. Traffic on the railroads was suspended at daybreak, and not a trolley car was running in the valley.

  41. On the night of March 25th the entire area of South Buffalo was under water, street car traffic was suspended and rowboats were plying the streets.

  42. Silenced; a priest is silenced when he is suspended from his priestly functions by his ecclesiastical superiors: 'unfrocked.

  43. I suspended my Argand lamp on the Breakwater of the Sewer, and with my Lanthorn light we proceeded towards the Thames.

  44. A man is suspended by the arms and legs, face downwards, by a party of police, who grasp his writhing limbs.

  45. I once saw such a bundle suspended from a beam in a village mosque in which I had passed the night in the guise of a pious Muslim, and, observing its dusty condition, inquired how it came there.

  46. Well did the great imagination of antiquity feign a torment, too great for the mind long to endure, in the sword of Damocles suspended by a single hair over his head.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suspended" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    apathetic; broken; catatonic; choppy; dangling; dead; dependent; disconnected; discontinued; discontinuous; discrete; disjunctive; dormant; dull; episodic; extra; falling; fitful; flowing; foul; fresh; groggy; hanging; heavy; held; hung; inactive; incoherent; inert; intermittent; interrupted; irregular; jagged; jerky; languid; languorous; latent; leaden; lifeless; limbo; logy; mint; new; original; parenthetic; parenthetical; passive; patchy; pendent; pending; pendulous; phlegmatic; poised; pristine; reserve; saved; scrappy; sedentary; slack; sleeping; sluggish; slumbering; smoldering; spare; spasmodic; stagnant; standing; static; stored; suspended; swinging; tame; torpid; unbeaten; unconnected; unemployed; unexercised; unspent; untouched; untrodden; unused; waived; falling; fitful; flowing; foul; fresh; groggy; hanging; heavy; held; hung; inactive; incoherent; inert; intermittent; interrupted; irregular; jagged; jerky; languid; languorous; latent; leaden; lifeless; limbo; logy; mint; new; original; parenthetic; parenthetical; passive; patchy; pendent; pending; pendulous; phlegmatic; poised; pristine; reserve; saved; scrappy; sedentary; slack; sleeping; sluggish; slumbering; smoldering; spare; spasmodic; stagnant; standing; static; stored; suspended; swinging; tame; torpid; unbeaten; unconnected; unemployed; unexercised; unspent; untouched; untrodden; unused; waived


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    suspended animation; suspended following; suspended from