Sentence examples for made apprehensive from inspiring English sources

A national hero as the first American to orbit Earth, he had once made apprehensive Americans feel good again about themselves in those trying times of the cold war.

Cooper said a menacing threat should cause "the mind of an ordinary person of normal stability and courage" to be "influenced or made apprehensive" and the sender must intend to threaten the person to whom it is likely to be conveyed.

There was a certain stiffness to her movements that made me apprehensive.

Yet the movie's very distinctiveness made Fox apprehensive; such a film, in the modern marketplace, doesn't "pencil".

Human beings have been made unnecessarily apprehensive, for a puma has never been known to attack man, woman or child.

He originally set out to find the Eastburns' killer, though the prospect of an investigation made him apprehensive.

Mr. Baker said he was keenly aware of the "huge reputation this school has of being antiwar and antimilitary," which made him apprehensive about coming.

At first, this made me apprehensive, as it seemed that he might at any time stand up and bolt for the exit.

The country's experience with its Palestinian refugee population, segments of which played a major role in Lebanon's civil war, has made many apprehensive of refugee communities.

"At first, the news that a third of the musicians had left the orchestra made me apprehensive," says Pletnev. "Now I'm really pleased with this development.

She could not see its colours yet, but something in the way it seemed to prowl the coastline made her apprehensive.