How to Use apprehension in a Sentence

apprehension

noun
  • The thought of moving to a new city fills me with apprehension.
  • Spouses may not see one another for a while… and there is that apprehension.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Ethnic apprehension had, in the space of a few days, turned sweetly into maternal concern.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The reasons for this apprehension range from job security fears to the more nebulous fear of the unknown.
    Song Pang, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Beni was a dual-purpose K-9 who alerted to the odor of narcotics and did tracking and apprehension work.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Quicker responses save lives and enable the apprehension of suspects for public safety.
    Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 3 Sep. 2024
  • What does run throughout public sentiment, though, is that wider apprehension about the state of democracy, and that measure may be the most important of all to watch.
    Anthony Salvanto, Kabir Khanna, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2022
  • Nearly everyone has heard the phrase Mercury retrograde and cringed in apprehension.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Koehler expressed her apprehension, bringing up the defendant’s posts on Leavitt’s Facebook page.
    Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Jan. 2022
  • Minutes released on Wednesday from that meeting show more apprehension among officials than initially believed.
    Courtenay Brown, Axios, 10 Oct. 2024
  • On the streets of Kyiv, the change fueled some apprehension.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC News, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The news that few besides the women and children were saved has caused the greatest apprehension to the fate of these.
    Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Yet the apprehension to count USC and its coach among the nation’s best persists.
    Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Blige’s apprehension toward success is now a thing of the past.
    Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 25 Jan. 2023
  • That sense of apprehension has been echoed by Muslims across the state ahead of March 10, when results of the vote will be announced.
    Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Despite the apprehension, the deal was approved in March 2021.
    Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
  • Police said Thomas was in possession of a firearm and shell casings at the time of his apprehension.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The psychics, too, betray their own apprehension as things come to them.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Border apprehensions dropped 42% in June, the first full month that Biden’s new measures were in effect.
    Nick Miroff and Maria Sacchetti, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The information would lead to the safe recovery of the child and/or apprehension of the suspect.
    Lauren De Young, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Was there any apprehension from above or within about her tonal shift?
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Freud could find no way to dispute his friend’s apprehension.
    Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • Things start off peaceful, though one of the travelers (Florence Pugh) shows apprehension from the start.
    Lucia Tonelli, Town & Country, 31 May 2022
  • Thunberg did not appear to be in distress and was smiling at points of her apprehension, video showed.
    Sean Nevin, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Strangers passing on the street can sometimes stir apprehension amid the shadows, but music can transform the scene.
    Marc Santora Brendan Hoffman, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022
  • In the early weeks of the war in Ukraine, skeptical lawmakers in both parties were more open about their apprehension about the role of the United States in the conflict.
    New York Times, 10 May 2022
  • Their apprehension comes not just from the long time apart, but from the intensity with which their fans are waiting for this concert.
    Bo Emerson, ajc, 22 Dec. 2022
  • By the end of June, migrant apprehensions had begun to creep up along some parts of the border, but were still considerably lower than in the spring.
    Simon Romero, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2023
  • Berlin went on to commend the police department on its quick apprehension of the suspect.
    George Wiebe, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Every now and then a diver would step back from the edge just before they were supposed to jump, disturbed by a gust of wind or a moment of apprehension.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 16 Feb. 2023

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