I suspect that "suspended animation" is not the correct phrase.
They have been fed by competition, and have been kept in a miserable state of suspended animation by competition.
It would be utterly impossible for us to be reduced to five by placing the three 2nd battalions in suspended animation.
Those battalions will then go into what is known as suspended animation.
It is derogatory to their dignity to keep them in a kind of suspended animation before further procedures are carried out.
It is in a state of suspended animation.
We are left in a state of suspended animation.
She loses for the time being all the benefits and remains in a state of suspended animation until she may chance to become a widow.
