How to Use trepidation in a Sentence

trepidation

noun
  • He had some trepidation about agreeing to their proposal.
  • I came aboard the 319 with trepidation, to join the lives of utter strangers, a man untried by the circumstances they had known.
    — Henry G. Bugbee, Jr., "Naval History",
  • Come the first snow, a chill of trepidation falls over the pair.
    — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • But for some, there’s still at least a dash of trepidation about the new regime.
    — Joe Pompeo, The Hive, 26 June 2018
  • Of the five injuries in Arizona, the one to Gallimore drew the most trepidation from the team.
    — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Still, some had a sense of trepidation as the larger case moves on.
    — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Apr. 2023
  • If there is trepidation, and of course there is, people don't want to think about it.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 11 June 2018
  • The lead-up to the earnings call did feature some amount of trepidation.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2024
  • That means shows have to be hits and the run up to Faithless‘ launch was full of trepidation for its creators.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 17 July 2024
  • Was there any trepidation on your part that maybe the skeptics would be proven right?
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • But that wasn’t the moment that kicked off my child’s trepidation.
    — Lacey Vorrasi-Banis, EW.com, 20 Nov. 2019
  • But not with the trepidation of Eddard Stark or Jon Snow.
    — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2020
  • There’s trepidation—and even a bit of revulsion—to meat grown in a lab.
    — Jenny Splitter / Photography Kelsey McClellan, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2019
  • The shooting restored the trepidation, but only in the short run.
    — The Economist, 17 May 2018
  • He was thrilled to work with Matlin but admits to some trepidation.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • For some, though, the holidays are filled with a healthy dose of trepidation.
    — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2019
  • In Paris, Biles was the last of her teammates to vault, so a sense of trepidation hung over the first twenty minutes of the broadcast.
    — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024
  • And so, Susie heads in to the third and final Fantasy Suite date full of trepidation.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Cronin was asked if the UConn brand name should still cause some trepidation for Bearcats players.
    — Tom Groeschen, Cincinnati.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • But there's a bit of trepidation: Apple shares fell last year after the release of the iPhone 7.
    — Grace Donnelly, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2017
  • There's enough jangly guitar to knock the sense out of ya, or at least the trepidation.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2018
  • There was a bit of trepidation off the top about how the death was going to happen, how the grand finale was going to play out.
    — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2022
  • The truce and release of hostages sparked hope and trepidation among Israelis.
    — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2025
  • There is the tech dilemma and then the trepidation that comes with sitting through a meal in front of a computer screen.
    — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2020
  • That trepidation might be part of the issue for some authors.
    — Elisabeth Egan, Glamour, 23 May 2018
  • There was some trepidation, of course, but my dad knew there was no other choice.
    — ELLE, 1 Mar. 2022
  • That comfort level would have to start from scratch in the event of a draft, which gives current stars some trepidation.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2022
  • Four percent said their trepidation stemmed from the fact there wasn’t yet a vaccine.
    — oregonlive, 22 Dec. 2020
  • The second-half trepidation from the home support came as Nikola Milenkovic made it 4-2 with half an hour to go before a late Ryan Yates goal made it 4-3 with minutes remaining.
    — Chris Waugh, The Athletic, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Both the bond and the stock markets have increasingly been taking Trump’s tariffs in stride, after earlier showing much more trepidation.
    — Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2025

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