"suspends itself" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to temporarily stop or pause an activity or process of its own accord. Example: The clock tower's mechanism suspends itself at midnight, allowing the bell to ring and mark the start of a new day.
On the sill the wasp hovers, suspends itself in still air.
The various repeated jumps that are highlights of her later solos — the entrechat-quatre where her feet crisscross and the vertical soubresauts where, feet together, her body briefly suspends itself in the air — all glowed gorgeously.
For example, if the robot suspends itself and moves to the next step, first of all, it raises its right hand.
Once out of the pupal exuvia (the pupal exoskeleton), the moth finds a horizontal surface, from which it suspends itself by its four anterior legs.
Eritrea suspended itself after the AU told it not to help the jihadists in Somalia.
Mesoscaphe, diving vessel built by the Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard that suspended itself automatically at predetermined depths.
Odeo was sold in 2007, and the service suspended itself in 2010.
The milk will suspend itself in the foam, moistening it and giving it a sturdy, creamy feel.
"The ship, suddenly, seems to suspend itself in midair," Sebastian Sanchez, one of the students, wrote in one of the more dramatic blog posts on the episode.
The university suspended itself from 2002-3 playseason play, imposed its own financial sanctions and gave up all victories earned while Webber and the other players were on the team, erasing the legacy of the Fab Five.
Once a week, the female spiders are "milked": more than two hundred metres (or six hundred and fifty-six feet) of dragline silk the kind a spider uses to suspend itself in the air can be wound out of the abdominal glands in fifteen minutes, using a mechanical bobbin.
