Example Sentences

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Apprehensively, he played a few "piano improvisations and ambient assemblages" he'd recorded at home.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2023

Apprehensively, Chlumsky quit her job and enrolled in drama school, and it was apparent from day one that this is what she had been missing.

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2014

Apprehensively the country read the Washington columnists, whose reports of U. S. defense preparations read last week like the opening chapters of so many ghost stories.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apprehensively, New York City Controller Mario Procaccino last week opened the little tin box in which he receives bids on municipal-bond issues and managed to look relieved.

From Time Magazine Archive

Apprehensively I ruffle the hair by my left ear.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins