trepidation

Example Sentences

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"I'm a little bit anxious - a bit of trepidation - but I just want to get on with it now because it's been a very long, painful fight," she told the BBC.

From BBC

“We still are challenged by the trepidation that marketers might have about hiring an agency in Omaha—marketers thinking that intelligence and creativity are geo-specific,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Plenty will venture to Murrayfield with great expectations, and a little more trepidation.

From BBC

As I advanced into the interior, parting bushes and brushing branches aside with trepidation, I discovered a rocky landscape covered in vegetation.

From Literature

Women at the time said they looked at every single man with trepidation, and police officers were stationed on many of the town's roads.

From BBC