How to Use apprehension in a Sentence

apprehension

noun

• The thought of moving to a new city fills me with apprehension.
• 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
• The Irish Petes went back to Scully with a bit of apprehension.
  — cleveland, 23 Aug. 2021
• 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
• The swims take him through the seasons and, finally, to a Scrooge-like apprehension of his shallow life.
  — Leanne Shapton, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
• 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
• But the guidelines exclude cases where a crime is over 10 years old and not the reason for a recent apprehension.
  — Robert McCoppin, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• Beni was a dual-purpose K-9 who alerted to the odor of narcotics and did tracking and apprehension work.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 6 Jan. 2022
• Things start off peaceful, though one of the travelers (Florence Pugh) shows apprehension from the start.
  — Lucia Tonelli, Town & Country, 31 May 2022
• Beijing led the crusade, but many of the traveling apprehension teams came from the provinces.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 23 July 2021
• 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
• Spouses may not see one another for a while… and there is that apprehension.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 7 Oct. 2024
• And yet, apprehension about the impact of the new law is as pervasive as the other spreading concern — the delta variant.
  — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 1 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Despite the dip in border apprehensions, migration through Panama’s Darién gap rose in September.
  — Will Freeman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Dec. 2024
• Despite her apprehension, McPherson acknowledges that podcasting is the great equalizer, stating that both her peers and older counterparts listen to podcasts.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Jan 2025