trepidation

Example Sentences

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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

Analyst John McPeake believes trepidation on Wall Street on Quantum Computing has to do with the company’s ‘relatively little revenue.’

From Barron's

No wonder that the century in which we now live is still widely regarded as, at heart, a new one, filled with both promise and trepidation.

From The Wall Street Journal

We near its end with equal amounts relief and trepidation.

From Los Angeles Times