How to Use trepidation in a Sentence

trepidation

noun

• He had some trepidation about agreeing to their proposal.
• I came aboard the 319 with trepidation, to join the lives of utter strangers, a man untried by the circumstances they had known.
  — Henry G. Bugbee, Jr., "Naval History",
• Come the first snow, a chill of trepidation falls over the pair.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
• But for some, there’s still at least a dash of trepidation about the new regime.
  — Joe Pompeo, The Hive, 26 June 2018
• Of the five injuries in Arizona, the one to Gallimore drew the most trepidation from the team.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2021
• Still, some had a sense of trepidation as the larger case moves on.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
• If there is trepidation, and of course there is, people don't want to think about it.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 11 June 2018
• The lead-up to the earnings call did feature some amount of trepidation.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
• That means shows have to be hits and the run up to Faithless‘ launch was full of trepidation for its creators.
  — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 July 2024
• Was there any trepidation on your part that maybe the skeptics would be proven right?
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• But that wasn’t the moment that kicked off my child’s trepidation.
  — Lacey Vorrasi-Banis, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• But not with the trepidation of Eddard Stark or Jon Snow.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2020
• There’s trepidation—and even a bit of revulsion—to meat grown in a lab.
  — Jenny Splitter / Photography Kelsey McClellan, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
• The shooting restored the trepidation, but only in the short run.
  — The Economist, 17 May 2018
• He was thrilled to work with Matlin but admits to some trepidation.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• For some, though, the holidays are filled with a healthy dose of trepidation.
  — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
• In Paris, Biles was the last of her teammates to vault, so a sense of trepidation hung over the first twenty minutes of the broadcast.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
• And so, Susie heads in to the third and final Fantasy Suite date full of trepidation.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2022
• Cronin was asked if the UConn brand name should still cause some trepidation for Bearcats players.
  — Tom Groeschen, Cincinnati.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• There's enough jangly guitar to knock the sense out of ya, or at least the trepidation.
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2018
• There was a bit of trepidation off the top about how the death was going to happen, how the grand finale was going to play out.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2022
• There is the tech dilemma and then the trepidation that comes with sitting through a meal in front of a computer screen.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2020
• That trepidation might be part of the issue for some authors.
  — Elisabeth Egan, Glamour, 23 May 2018
• There was some trepidation, of course, but my dad knew there was no other choice.
  — ELLE, 1 Mar. 2022
• That comfort level would have to start from scratch in the event of a draft, which gives current stars some trepidation.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2022
• Four percent said their trepidation stemmed from the fact there wasn’t yet a vaccine.
  — oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2020
• The first half of this season seemed to validate the 47-year-old’s trepidation.
  — Megan Feringa, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
• There is reason to look to the next decade with both optimism and trepidation.
  — David D. Haynes, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2020
• That looming sense of trepidation is only strengthened by the nuanced performances of the series’ stellar leads.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 7 Jan. 2025
• But even as a sense of relief swept through Israel and Gaza, it was accompanied by trepidation and wariness over the possibility that the war might resume and the hostages might not return.
  — Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 6 Mar 2025