apprehension

How To Use apprehension In A Sentence

• There were still areas of doubt and her apprehension grew.
• Pauline recalls vividly the first time the pair spoke on the phone on Thanksgiving Day and the combination of excitement and apprehension she felt as she knew she was about to say hello.
• The uneasiness grew into a formless apprehension, which drew him out into the waxing sunlight and drove him to retrace his earlier route through the meadow, towards College Rise.
• The order of gentlemanly parleying and brokery has, therefore, with many apprehensions of calamity, been reluctantly and tardily giving ground before something that is of a visibly underbred order. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
• American defender of theirs says just the same of their industrialism and free-trade; indeed, this gentleman, taking the bull by the horns, proposes that we should for the [78] future call industrialism culture, and the industrialists the men of culture, and then of course there can be no longer any misapprehension about their true character; and besides the pleasure of being wealthy and comfortable, they will have authentic recognition as vessels of sweetness and light. Culture and Anarchy
• hollered one ample young madam, under the misapprehension she was being casually friendly. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
• Miss Margland, who, sideling towards the window, on pretence of examining a print, had heard and seen all that had passed, was almost overpowered with rage, by the conviction she received that her apprehensions were not groundless. Camilla
• The panic slowly subsided to un- easy apprehension while the minutes crawled by as if they were each an hour long. INCA GOLD
• Words had yet to be spoken, and Katherine found her apprehension returning in the silence.
• The apprehensions of the Health Department are valid if we go for indiscriminate digging in places where there are chances for water stagnation.