Example sentences for: apprehensive

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

  • Joe has done nothing to encourage Parry's attentions, and yet, even before he realizes that Parry is stalking him, he feels apprehensive, hunted.

  • Her suitor, Neigh, who had proposed marriage in a previous chapter, appears somewhat apprehensive at Ethelberta's suggestion.

  • This openness is what makes him such a sympathetic observer of others, and also what can best persuade the apprehensive lay reader that science expresses the very highest imagination.

  • The Arab world has good cause to be deeply apprehensive about the way NATO has taken to posing as the world's policeman and projecting its power beyond its borders in a nondefensive role, he wrote.

  • The spot is structured as a "baby melodrama"--a problem becoming an apparently insoluble crisis: An elderly baby-sitting granddad is simultaneously bored and apprehensive.


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