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    Use "anxious" in a sentence

    anxious example sentences

    anxious


    1. She was glad to see that Herndon wasn't very anxious to renew his intimate acquaintance with Venna


    2. It is just coming to the boil when Stephen comes into the room looking anxious


    3. ‘A bit shaken but we had a reasonably friendly chat and she sounded a lot less anxious by the time we’d finished


    4. He was the only runner out and Main Street was deserted except for two forlorn and anxious looking individuals standing outside the offices of the local bank


    5. ’ I replied, not at all certain where this is going and anxious, in the light of the events of the last few days, to keep things civil


    6. next morning the anxious sheriff and


    7. an even more anxious major were standing on the platform waiting


    8. ‘We know you were anxious about it


    9. Rose relates a horrifying tale about the bombs which were dropped … some of her family were killed in Bristol in an air raid aimed at one of the factories … and she was also anxious about Wally as they were engaged by then


    10. By the way, how would we ever reach Kavouri in that ramshackle car? And what time would we leave the “nice, isolated beach?” I kept wondering, rather anxious

    11. Despite the fact Kara knew he was anxious to return to his new wife in Banswell, Berndt insisted on staying at Abery, dogging her every footstep as she battled to come to terms with the fact of JJ’s presence in the house


    12. anxious to be the joking hero, desperate to be sleeping in tattooed arms


    13. ‘Your friend Gerisse is at this very moment on his way back across in the company of two officials tasked with ensuring he gets here safely … we are anxious that he doesn’t get lost in transit


    14. Do not be anxious for us – we will go back once the mountain has calmed down again


    15. Wiesse is waiting, an anxious expression on his face, when The Centre materialises around the kaht


    16. Joe Spratt was most anxious


    17. ’ I replied, anxious that we should be here when Berndt returns and aware that he would not be pleased if we had wandered off somewhere


    18. Kate was anxious to speak with Daniel, and after a bit he came back down the mountain


    19. Minutes earlier I'd almost climbed aboard the regular bus for the island capital but an incident with the driver had left me a little anxious and caused me to change my mind


    20. I’ve got a couple of kids myself and I know how it is, never enough space for the nappies and the toys, and your wife will be getting anxious about her little nestlings

    21. He was so anxious in fact that not only was he seeing thorns all over the place, he began to count them and certain that he could no longer abide them he removed them all


    22. stood at the edge, looking anxious


    23. That is what we agreed, wasn’t it?’ he’s suddenly anxious


    24. Ben’s on the edge of his seat, anxious for Abi


    25. I wasn’t anxious around the water


    26. At the far end of the bar a boy of sixteen takes anxious swigs from a bottle of orange juice


    27. storage cavity, but in an anxious fuddle he fumbled


    28. ' Mandy followed her glance and was about to boast of her recent tour in the new bungalows, anxious to to share her experience with some friendly ear; when the woman remarked snidely, “I can't see where they get off, putting on airs and assuming they can just buy a station in the community that's so obviously above their rank or right place!”


    29. The officer is anxious to speak with the girls but he can see that they are both in a bad way


    30. Chrissie shrank into herself, becoming as invisible as she could; she had seen Chas in one of his violent moods before and was anxious to keep out of his way

    31. White Feathers and James were anxious that 'their' boy have some strong feminine influence and neither of them could imagine a better influence than Belle


    32. Sitting morosely at the table where they waited, casting anxious glances at Ozzie every now and then almost as though he expected the man to explode or something equally irrational


    33. Everyone in town, it seemed, was anxious to pass along special counsels to the 'kid going abroad,' whether they themselves had ever even been any further than Truckee


    34. The Inspector in charge of the investigation is anxious to talk to anyone who knows this woman [a photo of Chrissie apparently sleeping flashed up on the screen]


    35. The next morning, Harry woke his dad, anxious to continue the amazing project


    36. enquired, clearly anxious to hear the rest of the story


    37. We are anxious to trace her family


    38. It’s quite a complicated show from a props point of view and, anxious to get my head round the story line and what and, more importantly, when props would be needed, I tended to hang around at the front during rehearsals


    39. He’d gone on to suggest that, if it was okay with me (and he’d looked absurdly anxious at that point) we could throw overnight stuff into his van and just drive off somewhere


    40. Spelman, it seemed, was habitually anxious at her husband's forays to foreign soils, for she voiced constant reminders towards him during the days leading up to his departure

    41. Spelman allowed, though he was secretly very anxious to be led on a tour by these two evocative young women and would have granted a week


    42. “We’re anxious to meet the newcomer,” Tahlmute said


    43. Marguerite was anxious to catch Jean alone when he


    44. I was anxious to see my friend in a new


    45. She was most anxious to have all his attentions as this would be the last time she would see him for the indefinite future


    46. 'count their blessings', for though they were, in fact, quite fortunate not to have been killed or suffered any serious injuries in Justice's wave of wrathful destruction and death, they were still quite anxious


    47. The host was most anxious to clarify the translation of all the talk of centers and brains into the more concrete schema of the octave's structure they had just recently begun to map


    48. and will not be anxious in the year of


    49. What's happening to you Jeff?? Was something happened with you?? Please write! I'm very much anxious to get a letter from you


    50. Oh I miss you Jeff that I'm anxious to see you in your latest photos














































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    Synonyms for "anxious"

    anxious dying nervous queasy uneasy unquiet troubled disturbed uncomfortable worried solicitous distressed afraid fearful panicky wild agitated unstrung impatient desirous fervent avid zealous enthusiastic

    "anxious" definitions

    eagerly desirous


    causing or fraught with or showing anxiety