apprehensivein a sentence
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She is apprehensive about her new job.apprehensive = worried
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She is apprehensive about finals.
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But it's the Ceremony that I'm apprehensive about. (source)apprehensive = nervous or worried
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Christopher-John, Little Man, and I exchanged apprehensive glances. (source)apprehensive = worried
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He was pretty well crocked, which made me apprehensive. (source)
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And indeed I was a little frightened, or at least apprehensive enough to make my heart beat harder. (source)apprehensive = nervous or worried
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As Louie pulled it apart, everyone felt apprehensive. (source)apprehensive = worried
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...Mr. and Mrs. Granger, who were watching apprehensively. (source)apprehensively = with worry
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His pleasant neatness and compactness, his small hands and feet, his teeming ready brain, his unaffected accessibility, and a certain fine apprehensiveness which stamped him as susceptible from his topmost hair to his tipmost toe, proved irresistible.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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When the entire ship's company were assembled, and with curious and not wholly unapprehensive faces, were eyeing him, for he looked not unlike the weather horizon when a storm is coming up, Ahab, after rapidly glancing over the bulwarks, and then darting his eyes among the crew, started from his standpoint; and as though not a soul were nigh him resumed his heavy turns upon the deck.† (source)unapprehensive = not nervous or worriedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unapprehensive means not and reverses the meaning of apprehensive. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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He was more interested in catching the eye of the Carruthers catalog people after the branch kennel arrangement fell through with Benson, the man from Texas, who'd witnessed enough the night Edgar had run to be apprehensive instead of enthusiastic. (source)apprehensive = worried
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The young woman stepped out of the way, eyeing me a little apprehensively as I followed Farid into the small house. (source)apprehensively = with worry
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But he was in gloomy rebellion against the fact that his quick apprehensiveness foreshadowed to him, and when his eyes fell on Rosamond's blighted face it seemed to him that he was the more pitiable of the two; for pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.† (source)
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They stopped at an oak tree, delighted, puzzled, apprehensive. (source)apprehensive = nervous or worried
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DANFORTH, apprehensively: What is it, child? (source)apprehensively = with worry
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But whatever it was of apprehensiveness or uneasiness—to call it so—which I felt, yet whenever I came to look about me in the ship, it seemed against all warrantry to cherish such emotions.† (source)
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