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Example sentences for "anxiously"

Lexicographically close words:
anvil; anvils; anxieties; anxiety; anxious; anxiousness; any; anya; anybody; anye
  1. She walked anxiously up and down her room, clutching her kimona about her; it would be some time yet before she could hear from her father.

  2. When he had gone, she returned anxiously to her own rooms; he had promised to call her after reaching the hospital and as soon as he had learned the particulars of Alan's condition.

  3. On the road Wulf watched anxiously for a chance to escape, but none offered itself.

  4. Harold was anxiously awaiting his return, and after listening to the message turned abruptly and entered his private closet, with a wave of the hand signifying that Wulf would not be further required.

  5. All eyes were directed anxiously towards it.

  6. The twelve unknown men, folded in their cloaks, and grouped round the fountain which forms the centre of the square, anxiously awaited the denouement of the scene about to take place.

  7. They anxiously bent down and examined the bodies stretched at their feet, hoping, perhaps, that another victim might have escaped the slaughter.

  8. The two Frenchmen had anxiously watched the spectacle of this infamous drama; Louis was disgusted with the rascality of the machi and the credulity of the Indians.

  9. The personage so anxiously expected by the Count formed a strange contrast with him; for, just as M.

  10. Dona Rosario anxiously asked, much affected by the story which the Linda told, entirely to her own advantage.

  11. Curumilla asked of the crowd, who pressed anxiously around him.

  12. In the pits and in the corral the merchants, teamsters, and hunters sweltered, while they anxiously gazed.

  13. The Indians let him alone; the men and women peered anxiously through the cracks in the palisades--his frenzied wife and children cried piteously, urging him on.

  14. Who knoweth but that this stranger may be commissioned to lead us to that which we have so long and anxiously sought for,--the truth as it is in God.

  15. I threw out my line as I had so often seen others, and waited anxiously for a bite, moving the bait in rapid jerks on the surface of the water in imitation of the leap of a frog.

  16. The apostles and martyrs of our faith looked for it anxiously and hopefully.

  17. The baroness wrung her hands looking anxiously at the spectators, and pointing at Amelia, as if she wanted to say: leave me to my fate, but save my friend!

  18. Amelia looked anxiously around, as if seeking Lady Delier; and then fixed her eyes again doubtfully on me.

  19. It is true, that the people and the clergy are waiting anxiously for the signal of a revolution; however, the nobility are not sufficiently exasperated.

  20. She poured upon her grave a cup of pure water, and suspended crowns of flowers to the branches of the bushes she had planted round it.

  21. I accordingly charged Boleslas with this employment, and began to prepare myself for acting the delicate part of an emissary of Pulaski in the presence of Dourlinski.

  22. The garrison stood to arms at three o'clock the following morning and anxiously awaited the dawn, but everything went off quietly, and at 5.

  23. Confirmation of the news was anxiously awaited.

  24. We are waiting anxiously for the sound of his musketry announcing him.

  25. All night long sentries paced the parapets, peering anxiously into the surrounding darkness, and straining their ears for the creeping tread in the thicket.

  26. So she awaited anxiously the next Sunday when Dolores's letter was to be written in her room.

  27. Everybody flocked to the door to bid him good-bye, and then Aunt Lilias stooped down to ask Dolores if she were quite rested and felt quite well, Mysie standing anxiously by as if she felt her a great charge.

  28. My fame, they were pleased to say, had spread abroad in Lancashire, and the co-operators were anxiously awaiting the time when you and I could pay them a visit.

  29. I look anxiously forward to the time when we shall become better acquainted.

  30. While the war lasted, she was anxious, unhappy; waiting anxiously with bated breath for news, scarcely living.

  31. At the same time Josephine was anxiously wondering whether she was to be crowned.

  32. Some were anxiously tuning their instruments, and some were chatting with affected carelessness.

  33. She thought she heard a footstep, and glanced down anxiously into the courtyard below, hoping that one of his sisters had arrived in search of him.

  34. She looked around anxiously to see if a feminine petticoat were fluttering in the vicinity, but there was no sign of anyone.

  35. Harley stooped and gazed anxiously at the old man.

  36. He sat in a low chair and gazed anxiously and expectantly at Nell Harley.

  37. On my arrival, I found that I had been anxiously expected by his wife, who appeared to be much relieved at seeing me, and after a short conversation, led me to her husband's room.

  38. XXVII The foolish rabble anxiously attends Those goodly champions' contest for the prize, A crowd which neither sees nor comprehends Other than that which is before its eyes.

  39. XXV A bough he severs from a neighbouring tree, And shreds and shapes the branch into a pole: With this he sounds the stream, and anxiously Fathoms, and rakes, and ransacks shelf and hole.

  40. On the Saturday previous (the 15th) the Norwich hotels began to fill with bruisers and their patrons, and men went their ways anxiously polite to the stranger, lest he turn out to be some champion whom it were dangerous to affront.

  41. Three persons remained on the bank anxiously watching the course of the frail boat.

  42. As soon as the chief had ordered the sachems to their posts, where the warriors were anxiously expecting the word to let them loose upon the foe, they proceeded to the different stations where their respective tribes were posted.

  43. He did not fail, however, to look round anxiously for her, with whom he had become so strangely acquainted; and it was with evident regret that he quitted the ship without having seen her again.

  44. Spendquick, who had been keeping his eye anxiously fixed on the pair, "do look; X.

  45. Very many times Rosalie would seek anxiously to question her, but apart from the independence which commonly she maintained towards Rosalie, Doda seemed very much to resent solicitude upon her health.

  46. Her brows were always wrinkled with the feverish concentration of one anxiously doing one thing while anxiously thinking of another thing waiting to be done.

  47. The sun's golden disc was scarcely submerged in the blue waves of the desert's horizon when every eye scrutinised anxiously the depths of the sky of emerald-like limpidity.

  48. The most famous among them: Ansars or Mohadjirun, anxiously awaited the Prophet's choice.

  49. Aunt Pullet was quite willing to take the shortest means of restoring her premises to order and quiet, and it was not long before Mrs. Tulliver was in the chaise, looking anxiously at the most distant point before her.

  50. She had thrown off her bonnet, her heavy braids were pushed back from her forehead, as if it would not bear that extra load, and her young face had a strangely worn look, as her eyes turned anxiously toward the door.

  51. In either case Mrs. Moss waited anxiously to receive Maggie by herself.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anxiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anxiously; avidly; eagerly; impatiently; keenly; promptly; quickly; readily