Sentence examples for apprehensive of something from inspiring English sources

He didn't like the way his articles were butchered when they appeared in American journals and admits to being apprehensive of something similar — "le rewriting" — happening to his plays, should they ever be put on in the United States.

Having such a good day yesterday meant I was a little bit apprehensive that something would go wrong the next day.

When we are nervous, excited, or apprehensive about something, we tend to be more attracted to those around us.

But experts are apprehensive of how the Government may react.

McLeish said: "Arsenal were very apprehensive of the big fellow (Zigic).

I'd always been apprehensive of the Tasman Sea and what we were going to face.

He is a distinctly anti-revolutionary conservative, deeply apprehensive of any grassroots challenge.

Although miserably apprehensive of his punishment, Defoe had spirit enough, while awaiting his ordeal, to write the audacious "Hymn To The Pillory" (1703); and this helped to turn the occasion into something of a triumph, with the pillory garlanded, the mob drinking his health, and the poem on sale in the streets.

As both patients are now entitled to confidentiality, I am apprehensive of conflicts of interest.

"He was a fatalist," Wineapple writes, "apprehensive of action -- associated with aggression -- skeptical of result".

I could finally say that I was Algerian without being apprehensive of how people would respond.