apprehension
Example Sentences
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Regarding Love's offending, Madam Justice McBride said by her guilty pleas she accepted she intentionally destroyed evidence and that she intentionally impeded her son's apprehension.
From BBC • May 22, 2026
Not aggression, but apprehension about what what was to come.
From BBC • Apr. 25, 2026
The apprehension that marked her 20s disappeared, replaced by a silent confidence molded from experience.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Neville hedges his bet by filling us in on Michaels’ spotlight apprehension, making his reticence a through line.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
Kate had always been able to handle this ever-present danger, but now the slow-depositing calcium and the slow growth of apprehension caused her to need help and to look for it from Joe.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing apprehension
Lord of the Flies
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"Of Mice and Men"
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"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 20–25
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