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How to use overanxious in a sentence

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When the team puts runners in scoring position, hitters are overanxious and tend to swing at bad pitches early in the count.
But in the hands of an overanxious company executive it can just as easily become a chilly fog that obfuscates the common truth.
The hitters have been overanxious and are pressing too much in clutch situations.
Sophie proves to be a pretty, overanxious, often stammering young woman, sometimes unable to finish a spoken sentence.
It seems like nothing more than a hypochondriacal disorder or the ramblings of an overanxious person.
Even if no lawsuit is filed, it can be quite unsettling to deal with overanxious beneficiaries who want their inheritances immediately.
He lambastes overanxious pop rappers, racial tension, and society's preconceptions in a nasal hopscotch speed rap over frantic instrumentals.
Being overanxious to beat Jeremy, I took off after the first noise I heard, and startled a couple of field mice.
As I said, when he thinks visitors might be interested in his story, he gets a bit overanxious to show them everything.
The overanxious Punna was unequal to the task, his lack of high-level experience proving to be a major handicap.
I was dying to go walk down to dinner with him, but I didn't want to seem overanxious.
I am a little overanxious for his input into long-range planning.
Hart hops around him like an overanxious terrier, chattering, falling, recovering.
This is meant as a pleasant diversion where even the fight scenes lack force, apparently so as not to make the audience of teenage girls overanxious.
There is also a category of overanxious drivers who start revving up their vehicles when 15 to 20 seconds are still left for the green signal to light up.
In my overanxious state, I started looking around the crowd mostly to alleviate the boredom of the MC who had been announcing the night's festivities for over five minutes.
An overanxious public relations person assigned to promoting Office 2003 among reviewers has been e-mailing me regularly, nervously asking what my reviews are going to say.
Neither overanxious nor hyperactive, dogs of this breed are very good family dogs that are not inclined to yap or wander away on their own.
Doctors had no evidence to support their hypotheses — few parents are willing to enroll their newborns in medical studies — and some insisted that colicky babies were casualties of poor parenting by overanxious mothers.
They come to the city and decide to return the visits, but their friends do not seem overanxious to have them and make wisecracks about the country.
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She felt he was not overanxious to caress her, and preferred that the rendering of this impossible should come from her side.
Once before, in the Maine woods, he had been an unwilling target, on that occasion for an overanxious deer hunter.
She was being made temporarily ill by the unwise and unfortunate suggestions of the overanxious mother.
He was a nervous child with a habit spasm, the son of a highly neurotic father and an overanxious mother.
That Brimfield did not add another touchdown was only because her line, overanxious, was twice found off-side and penalised.
If the secondary defence, overanxious, had not been fooled by that fake attack at their end Tim would never have gained a foot.
Most people are insomniac, mainly because they are overanxious about their sleep.
I offered to keep it for them, but they were not overanxious to part with the cash.
Disturbances from overanxious photographers and other members of the press were a more likely problem.
Once more I took up my flight, nor were the Sagoths apparently overanxious to press their pursuit so closely as before.
The most frequent diagnoses include phobias, oppositional disorder, overanxious disorder and sepration anxiety.
Leicester got their act together with a good run down the right by Chris Makin but the promisingmovecame to nothing asthe final pass found the overanxious Connolly off-side.
In this instance, the worthy, and important, message is poorly served by a medium seemingly overanxious to avoid accusations of exaggeration by relying on clichd depictions.
Casey was proud of his calling and overanxious to recover time.
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