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Example sentences for "apprehensively"

Lexicographically close words:
apprehends; apprehensible; apprehension; apprehensions; apprehensive; apprehensiveness; apprend; apprendre; apprentice; apprenticed
  1. The young man laughed in a superior way and then looked apprehensively at the other.

  2. The young man's voice fell almost to a whisper and he glanced apprehensively over his shoulder as he spoke.

  3. Ned looked round him apprehensively for something else, but Bisset said: "We've taken him upstairs, sir.

  4. He glanced apprehensively around, as if meditating flight.

  5. Curly's hands trembled, and into his eyes came a look of fear as he glanced apprehensively around.

  6. The expression in her eyes changed, and she looked apprehensively around.

  7. There patiently but apprehensively waiting was old Momus.

  8. Every soul within sound of that un-Jewish mode of travel turned apprehensively and looked back.

  9. At that moment one of Amaryllis' servants, who had stood guard without the door, dodged apprehensively into the room and fled across to the opposite arch.

  10. Hollyer glanced apprehensively at the door of the spare room as they passed it but within was as quiet as the grave.

  11. She rose and ran up the window shades and turned on the water in her bathroom, glancing into the mirror apprehensively as she passed it.

  12. You couldn't rise from a chair like that,"--she had started up apprehensively and gone toward the window.

  13. Miska glanced apprehensively around her, bending further forward over the table.

  14. The flying men were sheepishly coming back, but all the while their eyes were raised apprehensively to the many-windowed, lofty buildings that towered like the sheer walls of a canyon on each side of the street.

  15. He looked apprehensively about him, as though dreading discovery, and made an attempt to walk on.

  16. Her heart pounded in her throat as he turned away; she looked apprehensively at Jimmy--her husband now.

  17. She glanced apprehensively at the envelope lying face upwards, then she drew a quick breath, almost of relief it seemed.

  18. Briscoe dropped the lid of the piano and strode to the door, followed by Bayne, the ladies standing irresolute on the hearthrug and gazing apprehensively after them.

  19. They both looked apprehensively towards the future, towards a crisis which they knew was inexorably approaching.

  20. That lad eyed him a little apprehensively at first, evidently fearing lest he might, as a member of the Town Board, call him to an account for his sudden disappearance from the shanty near the village a few days before.

  21. She came in and shut the door after a few moments, and looked apprehensively at the clock.

  22. She looked apprehensively right and left, and was half afraid lest her thoughts should take shape and reveal themselves to other people.

  23. Bilkins glanced apprehensively at Jim Brewer, and then at the policeman.

  24. She raised herself on hands and knees among the soft, wet snow, and looked down apprehensively at the enemy.

  25. The cunning little black eyes of the beast watched him apprehensively and resentfully.

  26. She glanced apprehensively at Runyon and realized that he, too, was listening intently.

  27. He glanced apprehensively toward the windows, as if to estimate the distance which separated him from the highway.

  28. First of all he would turn on to his left side and view apprehensively the door ajar.

  29. At last he heard the first stroke of twelve and looked apprehensively towards Dora.

  30. His eyes were fixed apprehensively on the slight figure which moved before him.

  31. The sound of the cracking ice became oftener, and more than once Betty looked a bit apprehensively at Mollie.

  32. He looked half apprehensively at his visitor.

  33. Layard apprehensively when Ray came up to him.

  34. Every now and again they glanced apprehensively into the bush on both sides.

  35. At the mouth of the tunnel it sounded like a pistol shot, and Hoole and Trentham swung round and looked apprehensively towards the beach.

  36. But I haven't got another," said the girl, looking apprehensively at the shawl.

  37. She began to glance apprehensively at Harrigan Blood, who clung to her side, wondering how she could elude him.

  38. She never let herself into Miss Pim's hall now that she did not glance apprehensively at the musty shadows of the parlor, fearing to see the brisk red-headed apparition of Josh Nebbins.

  39. He looked somewhat apprehensively at the gentleman as he offered it, but the gentleman did not seem to notice.

  40. But always, as the tide of the game flooded or ebbed, Buck shivered apprehensively over possible situations that might reveal to their opponents his quarterback's cowardice.

  41. He looked apprehensively over his shoulder at the Red House as they started to skirt the bog.

  42. The girls peered apprehensively into the shadows of the tall trees surrounding the garden.


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