Example sentences for: apprehension

How can you use “apprehension” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The people of the Abacos remained staunchly pro-British even into modern times, and of all the Bahamians they were the ones who expressed the most apprehension about the bid for independence in 1973.

  • For the arrest of Abu Hajer, see CIA report,"Apprehension of Senior UBL Lieutenant in Germany," Sept. 22, 1998; NSC memo, Benjamin to Berger, Oct. 9, 1998; NSC email, Clarke to Berger, Sept. 17, 1998.

  • The Lahore-based Nation reported that the visit took place "amidst feeling of both apprehension and optimism."

  • Romantic yearnings for an imaginary past were, to him, anathema, and conservatives of many kinds were early subject to his critical strictures: The rights of man [the conservative] has gradually grown used, after long years of disquietude, to hear talked of, without apprehension of catalepsy; but you must wait for his son, or for his son's son, if you would get a candid hearing for the rights of woman.

  • This apprehension is observed by a Mr. Belmaine and mistaken by him for an indication that Neigh has been dragged into going to the church against his will “by his over-hasty wife.”


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