How to use "apprehensive" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "apprehensive" in popular movie and book plots

  • Wally is at first apprehensive about running, until he realises it is the only way to save the meatworks.  - The Honourable Wally Norman
  • She is pregnant, but is apprehensive to tell her husband as he against having children.  - Prophecy (film)
  • Although apprehensive to get her husband at first, she quickly fetches her husband when Jean greases her palm.  - Queen of the Amazons
  • Zozi is apprehensive about Ivan's ring and agrees with Ludmilla, that the ring should be returned.  - Bartok the Magnificent
  • Before it is consummated, Tiresias comes to tell Oedipus he is apprehensive about the marriage.  - The Infernal Machine (play)
  • As Sarah's demands increase, Steven's apprehensive wife begins to be won over.  - The Muse (1999 film)
  • Despite Osborne's suspicious and apprehensive feelings towards him, they form a relationship.  - The Big Easy (film)
  • The simple rural folk become apprehensive about Nebogipfel's activities in the house and suspect him of witchcraft.  - The Chronic Argonauts
  • After spilling coffee onto her white shirt, Buffy is apprehensive and sends Dawn to befriend Cassie.  - Help (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
  • The whispering conspirators return, apprehensive that their whispers from the opening scene were overheard.  - The Rehearsal (play)
  • Andrei is delighted to be reunited with their father and Ivan is apprehensive towards the man whom they know only from a faded photograph.  - The Return (2003 film)
  • Elsewhere in Niagara Falls, Chloe is apprehensive about marrying Mark and can't stop thinking of Jimmy.  - Bubble Boy (film)
  • The blind woman, mrs Reed, wants Claire to come visit her, but Claire is apprehensive and negative.  - Many, Many Monkeys
  • It is only when Captain America is unveiled to the world (Captain America #1) that Sheldon becomes less apprehensive about the Marvels.  - Marvels
  • Mitch and Mickey (particularly Mitch) are very apprehensive about how it will go.  - A Mighty Wind
  • The skull is apprehensive since only three others (Emperor T'ang, Chou the Rouge and Crazy Ch'i) have returned from the trip.  - The Story of the Stone (Barry Hughart)

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