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Example sentences for "apprehension"

Lexicographically close words:
apprehender; apprehendeth; apprehending; apprehends; apprehensible; apprehensions; apprehensive; apprehensively; apprehensiveness; apprend
  1. At any rate, a correct apprehension of our fundamental conceptions of the world of our external experience is indispensable.

  2. But how do we arrive at any apprehension of Natural Action?

  3. Its apprehension was effected by a faculty or capacity (Republic, v.

  4. One would expect to find this apprehension to be the keenest where the danger would be the greatest.

  5. In reality the continuous apprehension of an Indian raid had frozen their features into a wooden expression.

  6. For those who remained conditions were much more tolerable, although there appeared to persist a feeling of apprehension that these concessions would be retracted as soon as normal times returned.

  7. Following the decennial revelation of the census there is a momentary outburst of dismay and apprehension at the manifest trend in the interstate migration of negroes.

  8. At the same time the Prince is not without apprehension as to war being made this season.

  9. Early in 1869, considerable apprehension was created by the Luxemburg railway affair.

  10. But the real ground of the apprehension appears to be a resemblance real or fancied between the declaration and proceedings of the Emperor now, and those which preceded the war with Italy.

  11. At the French Head Quarters there was an apprehension that the Prussians might attempt to turn the right flank of the French Army.

  12. I am in constant apprehension of some foolish and violent proceeding of the Government with regard to Foreign Powers.

  13. Instead of exorcist we may, without much apprehension of offending either the reason or the belief of any candid person, read "Mesmerist.

  14. With growing apprehension he hastened to his boarding-house, only to learn that MacPherson had left the place and was departing for the States by the next train, having been married the previous evening.

  15. General Sherman says he has force enough, and feels no apprehension about the result.

  16. I knew that I had done wrong, and a vague apprehension of threatening evil stole swiftly upon me.

  17. We only gather that a child of God who has done his best need have no apprehension in this or another world.

  18. Its quickness of apprehension and its retentive power are considerably increased, for words and facts imprinted on it when by the suppression of its ordinary activities it has thus been made a tabula rasa remain fixed and clear.

  19. In apprehension of accident from one or the other of these causes, I had taken the precaution of placing bolts at several points of the rocks, so that in case of necessity a warp might be made fast.

  20. This of course caused us to rush straightway on deck again, though Courtenay and I, knowing that we must be just about crossing the edge of the Pedro bank, felt no apprehension whatever.

  21. The letter was dated the day after our flight from La Guayra; and the poor girl, who had already learned from the faithful Juan that our plans had somehow been capsized, had written in an agony of apprehension as to our safety.

  22. All the time that this drain continued the Khedive was in a constant state of apprehension as to the danger which might arise to him in the south.

  23. A long conference ensued, during which Montezuma betrayed his apprehension that the Spaniards were the conquerors indicated by tradition and prophecy as decreed to overthrow the Mexican power.

  24. He feared that a prophetic doom was about to descend upon him, and this apprehension wilted all his wonted energies.

  25. But if the apprehension of immediate danger is more vividly felt, the calamitous effects of the war on the agricultural interests are not less certain.

  26. The success of the Republican arms in France during the year 1793, of which the capture of Toulon was the crowning point, naturally created in the minds of the British ministry the liveliest apprehension and alarm.

  27. And, assuredly, there is no great rashness of theorizing in him who finds in this barbarous murder, evidence to a lack of apprehension in Dryden, for some part of the beauty which he swept away.

  28. I saw him frequently during the races, and never heard him express any apprehension about spots which appeared upon his body, although he did express apprehensions of secondary symptoms resulting from syphilis.

  29. Under such an apprehension I have considered of the means of prevention, and see none so feasible as having a confidential person about the Queen my mother, who shall always be ready to espouse and support my cause.

  30. For my part, I remained a close prisoner, without a visit from a single person, none of my most intimate friends daring to come near me, through the apprehension that such a step might prove injurious to their interests.

  31. Did the rest of that devoted band share the agony of apprehension that filled those lonely midnight hours with passionate prayer?

  32. An impulse of curiosity struggled through the gloom and apprehension of Lord Romsey's manner.

  33. With the passing of his sudden apprehension of danger, his curiosity was awakened.

  34. The people read these fearful tidings in dumb amazement and vague apprehension of evil to themselves.

  35. Joseph saw it, and a pang of apprehension shook his manly frame.

  36. Because, your majesty strides forward in your projects of reform without the least apprehension of the danger that attends such changes.

  37. He is also the hope of those who tremble with apprehension of your majesty's reign.

  38. I tremble no longer with apprehension of its splendor!

  39. Once more the Duke d'Aiguillon called out for the king's friends; and, trembling from apprehension of results that might follow this latter contingency, they entered the chamber of death.

  40. All I can tell you is, that when his mother received that letter from William last month, saying his return was delayed, a sort of foreboding seized hold of me, an apprehension that he would never come.

  41. A warrant had been issued for the apprehension of Stephen Radcliffe of the Torr, and old Jones started off to the Torr to execute it.

  42. It is the vexation of their mind in consequence of their wickedness; it is because they were wanting in exerting themselves to perform good actions; it is their apprehension of sufferings in the other world.

  43. The merciful one does not arouse apprehension in the mind of others because of his tranquillity.

  44. But his brothers, hearing him speak of the homeless life, felt their hearts grieved with the apprehension of separation.

  45. I was not entirely free from the apprehension of starting some wild animal, and moved slowly and very cautiously.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apprehension" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.