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Apprehension
"Apprehension" in a Sentence (17 examples)
His new theory is beyond my apprehension.
He detected in her voice a note of apprehension.
Such employments as warfare, politics, public worship, and public merrymaking, are felt, in the popular apprehension, to differ intrinsically from the labour that has to do with elaborating the material means of life.
His apprehension greatly hinders his progress.
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.
Unfortunately he was a bit slow of apprehension.
In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.
Life is a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
The young men were mostly inconvenienced by the lack of bread and wine, and good lodging at night time, for as it was late in autumn, they did not think it safe to sleep on board their boat, but in apprehension of the storms, usual at this season, drew the craft on shore.
Hope is born from the apprehension of tomorrow.
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The wing would have been a severe obstruction to apprehension of an object on the ground.
The warrant had been issued for his apprehension on the charge of rioting.
When he told us that a large reward was offered by Sir Leicester Dedlock for the murderer's apprehension, I did not in my first consternation understand why; […]
We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life.
We think we get a kind of vague apprehension of what London means from the top of a 'bus better than anywhere else.
Strangers of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was.
Every circumstance which evinced the savage nature of the beings at whose mercy I was, augmented the fearful apprehensions that consumed me.
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