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apprehension - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • offender: Targeted policing can be employed to maximize apprehension of persistent offenders.
  • truth: We suffer too from concupiscence of the mind, where our mental capacity and apprehension of the truth become clouded or enslaved to sin.
  • reality: Language was considered redundant or deficient, a stifling convention in the way of our apprehension of reality.
  • danger: At the same time no apprehension of danger seems to have been entertained.
  • criminal: It was also the first time that wireless was used in the apprehension of a criminal.
  • consequence: The difference came to be known at court, and there were apprehensions of ill consequences.

Converse of object

  • express: One of his attendants expressed an apprehension, that the King would get wet.
  • grow: The corporate minutes of De Beers on June 20, 1946, reflect this growing apprehension.
  • prevent: An acceptance of the strike prevents apprehension and an increase of the tension in your body that is caused by it.
  • cause: This is what causes most apprehension in the West.
  • feel: Crow could feel the apprehension in the toner's confines.
  • write: Second, correlations between speaking and writing apprehension were rather low.

Adjective modifier

  • slight: Lt Col Sharples said: " There was a buzz of excitement and slight apprehension among the lads.
  • reasonable: The issue is whether the violence used in self-defense was proportional to the harm inflicted and to the reasonable apprehension of future harm.
  • widespread: There is also a widespread apprehension that anything missing from the conference agenda will be at a disadvantage in the years to come.
  • initial: However, initial apprehension is soon overcome by the children's excitement.
  • intellectual: In other words, intellectual apprehension of harmony brings about virtue.
  • constant: But beneath that calm exterior nine thousand people live in constant apprehension of impending calamity.

Preposition: on

  • part: In Gildas' allegations, we may detect some apprehensions on the part of the rulers concerning this situation.

Noun used with modifier

  • evaluation: The negative effect of evaluation apprehension reduces the quantity of ideas produced in groups.

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