Example Sentences

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Assuming a portrait would take months to master, I trepidatiously put brush to canvas and found to my delight that the results weren’t half bad.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2023

To be completely honest, I kind of went trepidatiously where no man had gone before.

From Washington Post • Nov. 2, 2017

Rees returns as I trepidatiously ask Price, "Why can't we just turn the machines off?"

From The Guardian • Aug. 30, 2014

Everyone but Borisimus would file by 4pm; at 7pm, I would trepidatiously ring to enquire where his copy was.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2013

You start to wonder if those people peering trepidatiously into the lavatories before using them are concerned about hygiene, or just terrified she will be in there as well.

From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2010