MISGIVING in a Sentence
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36 example sentences for MISGIVING, such as:
1. I felt I had to express my misgivings about her decision.
2. She began again to have some misgiving about her going away.
3. Opponents of nuclear energy have deep misgivings about its safety.
4. I have no misgiving in recommending Ms Liu for the position you have in mind.
5. I was troubled with no misgiving that it was young in me to respond to her emotions.
2. She began again to have some misgiving about her going away.
3. Opponents of nuclear energy have deep misgivings about its safety.
4. I have no misgiving in recommending Ms Liu for the position you have in mind.
5. I was troubled with no misgiving that it was young in me to respond to her emotions.
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Meanings and Examples of MISGIVING
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misgiving
n. feeling of doubt, distrust, or apprehension
Classic Sentence: (32 in 3 pages)
1 "I should like to be," said I, glancing at the slate as he held it; with a misgiving that the writing was rather hilly.
2 With some vague misgiving that she might get upon the table then and there and die at once, the complete realization of the ghastly waxwork at the Fair, I shrank under her touch.
3 At first, a misgiving crossed me that Wemmick would be instantly dismissed from his employment; but it melted as I saw Mr. Jaggers relax into something like a smile, and Wemmick become bolder.
4 I was troubled with no misgiving that it was young in me to respond to her emotions.
5 I have known him set out in the night, on a misgiving that the light might not be, by some accident, in the window of the old boat, and walk to Yarmouth.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
6 I have observed that when I wore the semblance of Edward Hyde, none could come near to me at first without a visible misgiving of the flesh.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Context Highlight In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
7 She began again to have some misgiving about her going away.
8 The mental clearness and power he had found in this lonely girl had indeed filled his manner with misgiving even from the first few minutes of close quarters with her.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion
9 "No, sir," said Christian, drawing back, with a quick gaze of misgiving.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
10 When she had disappeared Charley, with misgiving in his eyes, slowly came from the stable door, and going to another point in the bank he looked over.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: 4 The Ministrations of a Half-forgotten One
11 Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at the time, but I could not help staring at this gallows with a vague misgiving.
12 Legree, though he talked so stoutly to Cassy, still sallied forth from the house with a degree of misgiving which was not common with him.
13 The sensation experienced by Franz was evidently not peculiar to himself; another, and wholly uninterested person, felt the same unaccountable awe and misgiving.
14 Nevertheless the guest did at least execute such a convulsive shuffle that the material with which the cushions of the chair were covered came apart, and Manilov gazed at him with some misgiving.
15 However, the solitude in which he stood was so strangely calm, that this frightful uproar, close and furious as it was, did not disturb him by so much as the shadow of a misgiving.
Example Sentence:
1 I have no misgiving in recommending Ms Liu for the position you have in mind.
2 Despite her misgivings about leaving the baby, she decided to accompany her husband.
3 Opponents of nuclear energy have deep misgivings about its safety.
4 I felt I had to express my misgivings about her decision.