Example sentences for: misgivings

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

  • Despite the fact that two-thirds of Americans have moral misgivings about abortion, expediency overpowers "traditional morality."

  • It expressed misgivings about a statement in Cairo by new Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak that he wanted to modify parts of the Wye agreement.

  • An evil fate of this kind befell a friend of mine from Gloucestershire who went to live in Germany near a town called Scheidt , the pronunciation of which proved to substantiate his worst misgivings.

  • During the first years of Nazi anti-Semitic incitement [says Bankier], most Germans ("large sectors," "the bulk," "sizable parts") found "the form of persecution abhorrent," expressed "misgivings about the brutal methods employed," "remained on the sidelines," "severely condemned the persecution," etc.

  • (He wrote a nice review of my book, City on a Hill , in the New Republic .) But Glazer is also too honest to disguise his own misgivings, and his new book, painful and awkward and sometimes confused, is the record of a reality--the reality of race and racial identity--that has resisted the categories he has tried to impose on it throughout his career.


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