Example sentences for: apprehensive

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

  • 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.

  • 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 mood was apprehensive, the phrasing negative--what harm was being done to babies whose mothers leave them in the care of others?

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

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


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