Sample sentences for APPREHENSIVE

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Definition

worried over possible misfortune

apprehensive = worried

apprehensive = worried

He was pretty well crocked, which made me apprehensive.
S.E. Hinton -- The Outsiders

apprehensive = worried

I watched them go down the road, their shawls close around them, looking back apprehensively at us.
Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms

apprehensively = worried over possible misfortune

...then, heart beating fast, both excited and apprehensive, he set off.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

apprehensive = worried

They stopped at an oak tree, delighted, puzzled, apprehensive.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

apprehensive = nervous or worried

apprehensively = with worry

But there was a little shudder of nervousness when he thought about it, about what might happen. Apprehensive, Jonas decided. That's what I am.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

apprehensive = worried about what will happen

apprehensively = worriedly over possible misfortune

Behind her stood the Dwarf and the Skeleton, silent, shifting, apprehensive.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

apprehensive = nervous or worried

apprehensive = worried

An apprehensive night crawled slowly by like a wounded snake, and sleep did not visit Rainsford, although the silence of a dead world was on the jungle.
Richard Connell -- The Most Dangerous Game

apprehensive = full of worry over possible misfortune

Jason sat silently, and as I looked at him, I had to admit he did seem very quiet and a bit apprehensive.
Jim Stovall -- The Ultimate Gift

apprehensive = nervous or worried

men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive
William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar

apprehensive = nervous or worried

apprehensive = worried

...Mr. and Mrs. Granger, who were watching apprehensively.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

apprehensively = with worry

Harry watched apprehensively as the pavement seemed to rise up past the glass windows of the telephone box until darkness closed over their heads.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

apprehensively = worried over possible misfortune

Father Hooper at first replied merely by a feeble motion of his head; then, apprehensive, perhaps, that his meaning might be doubted, he exerted himself to speak.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Minister's Black Veil

apprehensive = worried

apprehensively = worried over possible misfortune

"Move to the bed, and lie face down. Remove your tunic first."
Jonas did so, a little apprehensively.
Lois Lowry -- The Giver

apprehensively = with concern about what would happen

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