Sentence examples for apprehensive by from inspiring English sources

But if I was a little apprehensive by what Prince was doing sexually, I was outright terrified of what he did racially.

In returning to a city left shaken and apprehensive by the recent destruction of the twin towers, Mr. Kelly will become the first man in the history of New York to serve as police commissioner in two nonconsecutive administrations.

Following the death of her character, Leigh released a statement saying: Leigh's character has been called "reliable, trustworthy, timid, and apprehensive" by Grey's Anatomy executives.

Right now all 1.6 billion are feeling threatened and apprehensive, by the cancer itself and the symptoms generated by this disease process.

Obama's backing, and strong-arming of apprehensive Democrats by his administration, creates potential for action that has never before existed in Washington politics.

When the overtime buzzer sounded, Bryant had erased the memory of his apprehensive start by registering 28 points, 5 assists and 4 rebounds on 14-of-27 14-of-27 14-of-27

By John Vorhies and Philip Hamburger The New Yorker, May 8 , 1971P. 32 Observed in the Dallas telephone book, listed under ARMY DEPT OF: Military Police AWOL Apprehensive Section View Article By Larissa MacFarquhar By Rivka Galchen By Blythe Roberson By Malcolm Gladwell.

Mourners at Kathryn Faughey's wake on Friday afternoon were by turns angry, apprehensive and generally bewildered by the gruesome circumstances of her killing and the fact that it remained unsolved nearly three days after it occurred.

The draft of his now famous defence statement was returned to him by apprehensive lawyers.

This is mostly asked by apprehensive year 12 students who are wary of joining our motley crew.

The tribes had endured or made their peace with Hussein but they were also more secular than the Baghdad parties and very apprehensive about encroachments by the Iranians.