apprehensive• Twenty minutes in his company had left Merrill feeling stretched and apprehensive.• I must admit that before my baby was born I was very apprehensive about motherhood.• No one need be apprehensive about their personalsafety; everything is under control.• Afterward the architectsagreed that they had been very apprehensive about what it would look like.• What were the neighbors and zoningboardapprehensive about?• And she felt just as apprehensive as she always did here.• Although a little apprehensive at first of steering such a large boat, we settled into it remarkably quickly.• Anne waved her off, watching, nervous and apprehensive, from the upstairs window.• Dr Gottlieb reassuresapprehensivepatients that the operation is a simpleprocedure.• The Secret Service gets apprehensive when people even walk on this part of the colonnade.
apprehensive that• They were deeply involved in the welfare of their families - apprehensive that something might go wrong.