Sentence examples for modest trepidation from inspiring English sources

Yamamoto's ideas were received with cautious optimism mixed with modest trepidation.

With some trepidation, Cadillac introduced modest tailfins on 1948 models, after the designer, Harley Earl, was inspired by the Lockheed P-38 fighter plane.

That being true or not, millions of Americans have billions of dollars invested in their vintage "babies" and view government interference in the "old car hobby" with the same or even more trepidation Second Amendment fans have when they look at even modest gun registration schemes, much less confiscation.

The Mother, an illiterate, habitually battered widow of a drunken worker listens in at first with trepidation to the political meetings her worker-activist son conducts at their modest cottage.

Their trepidation is understandable.

There is some trepidation".

I agreed, with trepidation.

And some trepidation.

Trepidation surrendered to resolution.

Could be trepidation.

"Yes," I answer with trepidation.