The phrase "generate suspense" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing techniques in storytelling, film, or any narrative form that aims to create tension or anticipation.
Example: "The author skillfully uses cliffhangers to generate suspense in the reader."
Alternatives: "create tension" or "build anticipation."
Elsewhere, time hurtles ahead: unpredictable harmonic schemes generate suspense at every turn of this most familiar of stories.
"The Blackwater Lightship" tries to keep a secret and generate suspense around it, but the secret is negligible.
If you want to generate suspense, the relentless pressure of a heatwave – and its promise of a cathartic thunderstorm – always make a splendid frame for any story.
(Less explicable, by the way, is Harriet's handing over of the explosives to Amy, which comes to seem a device necessary to generate suspense).
The two other quarterfinals — Russia will play host to Argentina and Chile will play host to the Czech Republic — also have the potential to generate suspense.
Now, in his latest book, Crichton sets out to generate suspense from a truly daunting trio of applied sciences: nanotechnology, genetic engineering and computer-based artificial life.
It generates suspense and fright through ancient techniques of framing, cutting and focus.
"Solea" began with slow, stalking steps for Ms. Barrio, punctuated by pauses that generated suspense.
Mr. King generates suspense just following the way Edgar struggles with his memory.
But the story neither connects its narrative dots nor generates suspense, and the humor (the title character is given to silly malapropisms) falls flat (Holden).
Even though the plot involves a lot of double-crossing and a few surprise revelations, Mr. Fishburne seems less interested in generating suspense than in creating a mood.
