Life is a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.

Our apprehensions were justified.

Such employments as warfare, politics, public worship, and public merrymaking, are felt, in the popular apprehension, to differ intrinsically from the labour that has to do with elaborating the material means of life.

Your apprehensions were justified.

Her apprehensions were justified.

He could not but perceive that she trembled much, and was extremely agitated, from her apprehensions, doubtless, of the coming storm.

His new theory is beyond my apprehension.

In youth we may have an absolutely new experience, subjective or objective, every hour of the day. Apprehension is vivid, retentiveness strong, and our recollections of that time, like those in a time spent in rapid and interesting travel, are of something intricate, multitudinous, and long-drawn-out. But as each passing year converts some of this experience into automatic routine which we hardly note at all, the days and the weeks smooth themselves out in recollection to a contentless unit, and the years grow hollow and collapse.

He detected in her voice a note of apprehension.

Unfortunately he was a bit slow of apprehension.