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How to use anxious in a sentence

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However her supporters had some anxious moments before they collected their winnings.
I have not heard whether they have reached you and I am anxious on this account.
Security guards stood watchfully, while anxious exhibitors slept alongside their valuables in case thieves struck in the night.
You'll be amazed at how much difference sunlight makes to quelling those anxious feelings.
You arrived confused, anxious to quench your curiosity at one of South Eastern Connecticut's top liberal arts colleges.
I'm anxious to be finished here, as my heart has not been in this job for quite some time now.
The Minister is a racing fan and he is obviously anxious to look after those involved in the sport.
Often conference goers are anxious to get early places in the meal queue, but although we had gone overtime for lunch, Nigel captivated the room.
By this time, conscious patients were not acutely distressed, although some were anxious or scared.
I couldn't sit still, I was jumpy and anxious especially about meeting Erica.
We'd be as anxious and pleased to see and read where our former players are playing and how.
Walking on the road in broad daylight whilst facing the traffic makes me anxious enough.
Yet for all that, this was a win that received a rapturous reception from the home fans, after some anxious moments in the second half.
On the contrary, anxious children often grow up to be adults with anxiety, depression or another affective disorder.
She was anxious that I should not have a grudge against the country, but I was already feeling quite at home.
The poorer individuals, none the less anxious to use the agaric, were often frustrated by the cost and limited supply of the plants.
The voice was wobbly and anxious and seemed to be issuing from the coatroom in the corner of the grand sitting room.
This person is agitated, anxious restless, tremulous and looses appetite and cannot sleep.
When he turned to look up at her, it was with a wild look, a hope so anxious it almost hurt her to see it.
Last Tuesday saw yet another twist, as students, anxious to avoid kettling, played a cat-and-mouse game with police all through central London.
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Cora knew that the lady had suffered with seasickness, and was anxious to reach land.
George was anxious to do the right, but did not know how to fight against the wrong.
No person, even in the direst straits, is anxious to incur a violent death.
When he at last reappeared he was white as wax, distressed, anxious, but still resolute.
Eda is very anxious that we should be told all about your wonderful adventures in the mountains.
Brown was anxious to penetrate if possible into the secrets of fertilisation.
Brockway asked, crucially anxious to know what his friend had been able to do for him.
Then France, as we see, was only anxious to detach Catherine from Frederick.
He has control of his wheel and is as anxious not to collide as the other fellow.
He came in, warm and anxious, just in time to claim Fannie for their schottische.
Their officer had been drilling them carefully and they were all most anxious to obey his orders.
Then a swirl of other Mercutians anxious to get at the earthman eddied him out of view.
No doubt, he was anxious to emphasise the novelty and rarity of his literary adventures.
So that, if anxious as he who is human and fallible must ever be, I am nevertheless happy and contented.
He often sat with her now, watching her for hours, puzzled and anxious, but not contrite.
He was very anxious to cross-examine him on some testimony he had given previously.
Ford was crucially anxious to find out how the battle was likely to go, and his companion seemed amiably communicative.
Inquiry at Culbertson located a homesteader and his boy, anxious for work, and the two were engaged.
Mrs. Apgar, too, had an anxious look on her face, but she tried to make her visitors feel at home.
He was evidently anxious to find himself a free agent, and this time even the alabamian did not seek to detain him.
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