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How to use apprehensive in a sentence

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In the absence of common interests states will be competitive, apprehensive, and even fearful.
Our staff report feeling constantly afraid and apprehensive even when they are safe at home.
I admit I am a bit apprehensive, but I am not sure if I believe in ghosts, although the other girls are quite scared.
Those who are not medically insured are particularly apprehensive of the frequently high expense of medical treatment.
When a mechanized force enters an area with friendly infantry, both light and mechanized soldiers get a little apprehensive.
The marines were pumped up for action, but also thoughtful, nervous and even apprehensive.
Fear makes people jumpy and apprehensive, and more apt to resort to violence.
He was jumpy and apprehensive, and most likely wouldn't have been able to hit anything even surrounding the small oracle if pressed to.
Tessa's tone was cool and aloof, but Rogers could sense the apprehensive undertone.
The rest of their mates looked on in apprehensive silence, dreading what would happen next.
Cath's face grew apprehensive as she gathered her crutches and levered herself upright.
Another pause and she strained for the answer, nervous and apprehensive all at once.
For ten days or more I never heard a peep from him and I was beginning to feel less apprehensive about the whole experience.
I am very nervous and apprehensive, particularly as the hours are ticking away.
And I must confess to being a trifle apprehensive in the days leading up to the concert.
If the horse gets apprehensive or frightened, his back tightens and shortens.
Obviously I'm still nervous and apprehensive, but sometimes you've got to do certain things.
Her arms are crossed and her face apprehensive, but she claims she's not nervous.
However, some residents were a bit apprehensive about having wild carnivorous beasts in their midst.
She sits up with an apprehensive stare into the distance, as if she heard a footstep on the strange track she has elected to follow.
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It had made him apprehensive, and he wondered if his influence over her was on the wane.
The lieutenant, being young himself, was not so cautiously and altruistically apprehensive.
Its occupants were apprehensive, but hungry for the loot they had been assured was theirs.
He had never in his life before heard the voice of the great horned owl, and his apprehensive wonder was excusable.
Now when his too apprehensive nerves were frightened by bugbears in his lonely room he could be off to the howff and escape them.
While Sutter looked on with apprehensive eyes, he began to tinker with the wiring.
They are apprehensive that Mr. Lovelace will be there with design to come home with me.
And from this examination he was satisfied of one fact which made him uneasy, apprehensive.
Some people would have been apprehensive of what might pass between her and Mrs. Greme.
He was worried and apprehensive, yet the camp lured his mate and she was loath to depart.
I am apprehensive that some will accuse me of levity in my manner of alluding to Puseyism.
I know very well that Colonel Brandon is not old enough to make his friends yet apprehensive of losing him in the course of nature.
Looking proud, but a little apprehensive, Kimberley Walsh watches her 10-month-old son Bobby Jay try out his new standing skills.
I received the deputation with a trembling and apprehensive heart.
He talked ambiguously, and was so apprehensive of what I might say that I had not the heart to catechise him.
It was windier than they expected and initially they were apprehensive but they went out there and fought all the way to the finish.
Char and I cowered in a quiet, sometimes apprehensive, and always compartmentalized way of living.
But the General, quaking and greatly apprehensive as to his possible future, overdid things.
He was apprehensive lest the excitement should give her a fit or a palsy.
They are often timorous and apprehensive, and prone to pedantism.
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