Sample Sentences for
trepidation
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    Thomas felt one final moment of trepidation, a quick slice of fear through his body, and then it vanished.  (source)
    trepidation = nervousness
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    ...and he wondered, with a feeling of great trepidation, what had happened to make Lord Voldemort the happiest he had been in fourteen years.  (source)
    trepidation = fear
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    PARRIS, with trepidation—and resentment: I hope you do not mean we go to Satan here!  (source)
    trepidation = nervousness
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    With trepidation, he had resolved to go to Sugamo to stand before these men.  (source)
    trepidation = fear or anxiety about what will happen
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    After seven months, Wes met his graduation from Job Corps with as much trepidation as excitement.  (source)
    trepidation = nervousness
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    "Hello, Reverend," I said, swallowing my trepidation.  (source)
    trepidation = fear
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    a world whose inhabitants walked in trepidation, in fear of opening up.  (source)
    trepidation = nervousness
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    Trepidation rose thickly in her throat, but she nodded.  (source)
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    we walked home in trepidation, certain that Assef and his friends would ambush us every time we turned a corner.  (source)
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    ...when I entered my address in her register as 'Darlington Hall', I could see her look at me with some trepidation, assuming no doubt that I was some gentleman used to such places as the Ritz or the Dorchester and that I would storm out of her guest house on being shown my room.  (source)
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    I could never go out to breathe God's free air without trepidation at my heart.  (source)
    trepidation = fear or anxiety about what might happen
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    'I shall ask him what he wants first,' I said, in considerable trepidation.  (source)
    trepidation = nervousness
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    ...when drawing nigh the coasts of foreign lands, if by night he hear the roar of breakers, starts to vigilance, and feels just enough of trepidation to sharpen all his faculties;  (source)
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