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• June saw a decline in Southwest Border apprehensions and inadmissibles by 18 percent compared to May.2018, Southwest Border Migration FY2018, United States Customs and Border Patrol. From the entry inadmissible
• For a moment their eyes locked, and she felt a quell of anger rise above her apprehension.2011, Linda Lee Chaikin, Hawaiian Crosswinds, Moody Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry quell
• Doubtless there will be expressed apprehensions of the untried 'compulsoryness aspect of international dispute settlement.1974, American Bar Association. Section of International Law, Information Report on the Law of the Sea, page 49. From the entry compulsoryness
• An artist friend of mine recalls three examples in his own joblife where nervous apprehension was involved.1960, Fred Manchee, The Secret of Being a Somebody, New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, page 87. From the entry joblife
• My own apprehension rose again to a superlative pitch as we swept down from St.1941 June, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 263. From the entry sinuous
• Kissinger was obviously doing his best to allay our government's growing apprehension in connection with Nixon's forthcoming trip to Peking.1983, James C. H. Shen, “Dropping the First Shoe”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally…. From the entry allay
• I well remember the combination of excitement and apprehension with which I tentatively entered my first "rap." My eyes bugged open.1979 April 28, Lois H. Johnson, “Ten Years of Boston DOB: A Personal Memoir”, in Gay Community News, page 8. From the entry bug
• Thus multilogism inevitably leads to pragmatism, and must, in the end, finish itself in extra-cognitive bases of the forms of apprehension.1963, Iqbal - Volume 12, page 32. From the entry multilogism
• She was stale-drunk; she had, doubtless, a vile headache; probably she felt twinges of remorse and apprehension of possible police interference.1917, John Locke, The Red Planet. From the entry stale drunk
• And yet his people report mat the apprehension of your Lordship's discourtesies and misrespect hastened his end, whereof my Lord his son seems very sensible.2003, James Charles Roy, The Fields Of Athenry: A Journey Through Ireland. From the entry misrespect
• The state of apprehension already mentioned as the only conscious feeling of intensity may exceptionally lead to impulsive acts or to a paraphobia.1918, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record, volume 94, page 284. From the entry paraphobia
• This decline follows the overall downward trend for this time of year as apprehensions and inadmissibles along the Southwest Border have declined from May to June.2018, Southwest Border Migration FY2018, United States Customs and Border Patrol. From the entry inadmissible
• Hu is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, of hieroglyphics; exhibiting in hus solutions of each and all a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension preternatural.2002 January 3, Bryan T. McMahon, quoting Sasha Newborn, “A terrible book”, in The Ponchatoula Times, page 7. From the entry hu
• Kitty Garman, daughter of Kathleen Garman—Lorna Wishart's sister—and Jacob Epstein, became his Greekish muse in a series of portraits culminating in Girl With Roses, a masterpiece of wide-eyed apprehension.2002 May 18, William Feaver, “Seeing through the skin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Greekish
• Erikson remarked that Michael Brown's book, updated for this softcovered edition, "does what good reporting should do—alert us, educate us, provide a focus for our apprehension, plainly and clearly."1981 January 25, “Paperbacks: New and Noteworthy”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 Apr 2009. From the entry softcovered
• With the apprehension of still another young man, the incarcerated leaders became known as the “Five Youths of Sian,” and a movement was undertaken to secure their release.1976, John Israel, Donald W. Klein, “The War They Wanted”, in Rebels and Bureaucrats: China's December 9ers, University of California…. From the entry Sanyuan
• We used to visit farms for crempog teas and I used to eye the huge pot of melted butter, in which lurked the small round pancakes, with apprehension.1973, Kyffin Williams, Across the Straits: An Autobiography. From the entry crempog
• Genetically, he (as we will call her) is genetic heir to many decamillennia of accumulated morphological rejiggings, including neural changes that have made possible the production and apprehension of speech.2012, “The Biological Centrality of Talk (Raymond E. Jennings and Joseph J. Thompson)”, in Alexander Kravchenko, editor, Cognitive…. From the entry decamillennium
• Depending on the severeness of the crime and the danger of the suspect, the apprehender may apply physical force in order to stop the pursued and proceed to his apprehension.1996, Chantal Joubert, Hans Bevers, Schengen Investigated, page 305. From the entry severeness

Meaning of apprehension

1. noun The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.
2. noun The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
3. noun Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment.

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How do you use apprehension in a sentence?

Apprehension is used as a noun. For example: “The wing would have been a severe obstruction to apprehension of an object on the ground.”

What is a short sentence with apprehension?

“Doubtless there will be expressed apprehensions of the untried 'compulsoryness aspect of international dispute settlement.”

What does apprehension mean?

Apprehension means the physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.