Sentence examples for grow apprehensive from inspiring English sources

Just when you start to grow apprehensive, ol' Bobby comes through with the goods: in this case, a blue-chip recipe for glazed Porkette steaks with watercress and black-pepper vinaigrette.

Growing apprehensive of the power of the Mughal emperor Humayun, Sultan Bahadur Shah of the Gujarat Sultanate was obliged to sign the Treaty of Bassein with the Portuguese Empire on 23 December 1534.

But Cherne had grown apprehensive after the revolution.

Her smile disappeared, and her face grew apprehensive.

Though he is given high marks for audacity, leaders and ideologists from neighboring countries have grown apprehensive about his ultimate goals.

There is evidence that the public is growing apprehensive of the government's motives in the far-flung Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative doping case.

So far, while museum officials say privately that collectors have grown apprehensive about lending their paintings, only the Modern has admitted to exhibition casualties -- and only for the Bonnard show, which is currently on view in London.

The arrests brought a sigh of relief to residents of this bustling capital city of 11 million people, who had grown apprehensive in recent weeks as the government appeared helpless to solve the bomb attacks.

Wall Street is growing apprehensive that this spring's green shoots aren't developing into a sustainable recovery, and fearing a deeper retrenchment for the careworn consumer.

The art crowd grows apprehensive.

While others cheer Mubarak's fall, Israel grows apprehensive.