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.

  • While this open-ended inquiry is inherently ambiguous, these apprehensive responses might also suggest residents' discomfort with changing a plan recommended by supervising physicians.

  • 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.

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

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


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