Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: apprehensions
IPA transcription: [,æpɹɪh'ɛnʃənz]
Usage examples
  • A sight was there awaiting them, calculated to inspire all three with the most terrible apprehensions.
  • His apprehensions proved to be well founded, for about a year after the unhappy death of Alexis he also died.
  • Anything and everything seemed possible to secure it for her; and she made light of all Katy's many anxieties and apprehensions.
  • He had no farther serious difficulty with the opponents of his policy, though he was always under apprehensions that difficulties might arise after his death.
  • At last I sat down, and notwithstanding my apprehensions, not having closed my eyes during the night, fell asleep, after having eaten a little more of my provisions.
  • Their apprehensions were far more forcible than their curiosity; they dared not ask a question, and even began to wish he would continue silent upon the subject on which they feared to listen.
  • For a number of years their difficulties, and consequent unhappiness, continued and rather increased, continually exciting in my breast the most fearful apprehensions, and greatest anxiety for their safety.
  • If the proposed construction of the federal government be found, upon an impartial examination of it, to be such as to afford, to a proper extent, the same species of security, all apprehensions on the score of usurpation ought to be discarded.
  • But the arrangement of light was such as to hold in shadow all but the central portion of the room; and this central portion held nothing out of the common--nothing to explain the mysteries of the dwelling or the apprehensions of its suspicious owner.
  • Specious arguments of danger to the common liberty could easily be contrived; plausible excuses for the deficiencies of the party could, without difficulty, be invented to alarm the apprehensions, inflame the passions, and conciliate the good-will, even of those States which were not chargeable with any violation or omission of duty.