Sentence examples for which apprehensive from inspiring English sources

To be a true sensitive potency, Wodeham insists that it must be a living form (viva forma); if it were not, it would not be able to receive "living" or vital acts, among which apprehensive and appetitive acts are numbered.

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.

I had heard that it makes unions weaker, which made me apprehensive.

Assad's survival could also push Iraq, which is apprehensive about a Sunni takeover in Syria, closer to its Shia brethren in Tehran.

In Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf created the indelible shell-shocked veteran Septimus Smith, "with hazel eyes which had that look of apprehension in them which makes complete strangers apprehensive too.

Nicholas Hoult does look genuinely apprehensive, which is annoying because he's been perfectly at ease until now.

This was most marked in two pigs, PR444 and PR442, which became very apprehensive and over-reactive, characterised by loud squealing and running away in apparent panic whenever approached or touched.

If women know that the drug is a new and improved preparation, they may feel more reassured and be less apprehensive, which might decrease the incidence of nausea and vomiting.

"Every day I wake up apprehensive about what is going on in Nassau County," said Anthony P. Giustino, the president of Local 830 of the Civil Service Employees Association, which represents 11,000 county employees.

Are you apprehensive?

Adam sat down, apprehensive.