Sentence examples for by apprehensive from inspiring English sources
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.
Furtive liaisons are arranged and, step by apprehensive step, the blundering Blundens descend the hill from their sanitary sanctuary into the grimy alleys of the village.
Welcome to the Clippers' 2016-17 season, in which annual cynicism has been replaced by apprehensive confidence.
For example, generalized anxiety disorder characterized by apprehensive expectation or chronic worry focused on multiple life situations (Barlow et al. 1986) is a chronic condition with a 12-month prevalence of approximately 3% that is commonly comorbid with MDD and associated with significant functional impairment (Stein 2004).
There was no shelter for youthful goalkeeper Mackleworth in those harrowing minutes from a defence by turn apprehensive and careless.
Marie survives her father by at least 66 years, which means that this slender-looking book is filled with incident, transformed by experience, apprehensive at the constant sense of imminent loss.
But it says much about the evening that its single most memorable moment is a purely visual one: Ophelia's scrambling final exit over a hill of refuse, watched by an apprehensive Gertrude.
The action takes place on a famous train, on its way from Chicago to New York, and when the play begins we are shown Drawing Room A, occupied by an apprehensive little man and his blond companion, who are genially described as "Romeo and Juliet, hacking away at the Mann Act".
While she and her husband usually visit exhibition sites, where she oversees the installation of her work -- as she did for a show last fall at the Marlborough Gallery in Manhattan and the one in Pittsburgh -- she is both inspired by and apprehensive of large gatherings of people.
Some might think I'm taking too much for granted by feeling apprehensive about an opportunity many would jump at, but a certain reluctance actually probably ends up making for better coverage of a show whose big sounds and bright lights can get in the way of its actual substance.
