Sentence examples for apprehensive that some from inspiring English sources

Insurers are apprehensive that some of their new customers, having been uninsured for years, will have costly existing conditions.

"I'm a little apprehensive, that's for sure," he said.

Southern-backed filibusters, including Narciso López, had failed repeatedly to overthrow the colonial government despite considerable support among the Cuban people for independence, and a series of reforms on the island made Southerners apprehensive that slavery would be abolished.

What is it about leaning into that thing that either makes us nervous, frightened or apprehensive that's so horrifying -- especially when we know full well that, in our gut, we are to do just that?

"I look forward to a situation where when the phone rings, I won't be apprehensive that it's some problem I have to deal with: some crisis -- maybe that somebody else has done something stupid that I have to deal with, or in the worst case, something stupid I've done that I have to deal with".

Admittedly, George was apprehensive about that sale he doesn't condone people buying houses that require flood insurance.

A series of interviews over the last few weeks suggests a number of factors that led the military ever deeper into its prosecution: *Reservists serving as counterintelligence officers at the camp were apprehensive that they might miss some sign of infiltration of the base but were relatively inexperienced in how to handle such matters.

I was a bit apprehensive that I'd get some lewd or just plain silly comments, but no, that was not the case.

Some were apprehensive that their colleagues could interpret sitting at the computer as avoiding work.

"This is not the time to go wobbly," Ryan told ABC News' Jonathan Karl when asked about some Republicans growing apprehensive that their support for his plan could hurt their reelection hopes in 2012.

Some clinicians were apprehensive that home haemodialysis would be an overwhelming burden on family carers.