Example sentences for: apprehensive

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

  • 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.

  • On the eve of the World Trade Organization conference in Seattle, papers around the world were apprehensive about its outcome.

  • Despite feelings of solidarity with Kosovo's Muslim Albanian majority, Arab newspapers were generally gloomy and apprehensive Thursday about the NATO offensive.

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

  • 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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