The phrase "a certain suspense" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a specific feeling of anticipation or tension in a narrative or situation.
Example: "The movie built a certain suspense that kept the audience on the edge of their seats."
Alternatives: "a particular tension" or "an undeniable suspense".
By withholding information, tucker green generates a certain suspense.
She played from a score, and on the night I attended did her own page turning, which lent a certain suspense to the proceedings.
There's a certain suspense of where this is going and how this light is changing, and that requires a certain pleasure in staring at it".
Money Monster capitalizes on a certain suspense, but it's more like a soap opera than a cliffhanger and remarkably stolid and almost impassive in its depiction of its own version of flesh eating bacteria.
Nothing crossed the car's path...but since then she has found a certain element of suspense in driving.
There's a certain amount of suspense in wondering what, say, "the Lord is my shepherd" will turn into.
Indeed, while Mr. Reyes's direction keeps up a certain degree of suspense, elegantly underscored by Phil Monat's lighting, "White People" doesn't sidestep that flatness that descends when you're aware of an author playing ventriloquist to his characters.
Alice McDermott's use of time builds a certain amount of suspense, and no more will be said of what happens to Sheryl and Rick, except that the battle in the opening pages is between Rick and his high-school friends and the men who live in Sheryl's neighborhood.
He changes his mind, though not before his wife tries to press Jeffrey to join them, which raises some interesting ethical questions, and occasions a certain morbid feeling of suspense.
The philosopher Gilles Deleuze remarked: "The most vigilant censor could hardly take exception – except perhaps to question a certain atmosphere of suffocation and suspense".
"There's always a little bit of suspense whether a certain stream population is going be booming," says Daniel Schindler of the University of Washington, Seattle.
