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277 examples of Suspend in a sentence

We learned that to treat Ebola successfully, we had to suspend some of the normal rules of society.
To enjoy being deceived, an audience must first suspend its disbelief.
And being a theater person, what I know and love about the theater is that when the audience comes in and they suspend their disbelief, when you see men walking or women walking with a platter of grass on their heads, you know it's the savanna.
We should just automatically suspend accounts engaging in this kind of behavior.
You're not going to get that chance if we mistakenly suspend the account thinking it's spam.
We want to, and do, suspend accounts engaging in that kind of behavior.
And then, they have the power, which means, they can and do suspend and expel kids so that we're not playing school, they really decide.
Creative abrasion is not about brainstorming, where people suspend their judgment.
But please, I invite you to suspend your disbelief for just a moment.
These discoveries could never have been made without gifted, progressive thinkers able to suspend their preconceived notions and think outside of what they've been taught.
And we can go higher, and suspend our transportation like we did with our electrical grid.
They had to suspend functions at 8:30.
Tens of thousands of discreet rules, 60 steps to suspend a student from school: It's a formula for paralysis.
I'd like to buy some concentrated, compressed gas cylinders of a lethal gas because I have these ideas, see, about wanting to suspend people.
Now, just suspend disbelief for a moment, and let's think of what could happen if we could do that.
I'm willing to suspend some disbelief for the sake of entertainment, but this whole "demon with a vendetta" story arc is just ridiculous.
In order to enjoy 'Fur - An imaginary portrait of Diane Arbus,' Stephen Shainberg needs the viewer to suspend all reality and prior knowledge of the American photographer, Diane Arbus.
That Cloud can effortlessly suspend himself in midair for a full minute while wildly swinging away with his 2-ton sword?
Even if you're willing to suspend disbelief, the story itself is pretty threadbare, a pale imitation of an A.J. Cronin melodrama.
And hardly any of the actors were convincing enough to suspend disbelief.
To be fair, you have to be prepared in any movie to suspend disbelief for one major concept.
While "Nemesis Game" is mildly entertaining, I found it hard to suspend my disbelief the whole length of the movie, especially the situations that Sara was putting herself into.
The plot line REALLY stretches ones ability to suspend disbelief.
Choosing to entirely suspend one's belief in the situations or the relationships, the film itself is well acted (especially by the leads) and manages to create some nice tension as the story unfolds.
Okay, we learn to suspend our disbelief in films like the "Die Hard" series, but seeing little Jodie knock off a whole street gang, with a Glock, as a NOVICE yet...c'mon.
If we suspend our disbelief enough to buy into that, fine.
True, the film has plenty of action, but asks the viewer to suspend belief.
One did however have to suspend ones credulity on a number of occasions for the plot to work.
If good intentions were enough to produce a good film, I would have rated the turgid, ponderous, obvious "Focus" a bit higher than 4. Macy does his best, but as an earlier poster commented, Miller's little parable asks us to suspend disbelief too often.
I know this is just an animated, humorous show but by putting female body parts on a male, I had to suspend my disbelief so much that I just couldn't enjoy the movie like I might have.
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