How To Use Anxiously In A Sentence

Here and there a mother turned her head to call back anxiously for the bleating lambkin lost behind the white curtain; and, dim and grotesque, the awkward strayling would come gamboling into sight. Virginia: the Old Dominion
Ewood Park is an all-seater stadium but few stayed seated as fans stood anxiously, knowing either side could lose.
I anxiously await the appearance of the first Concord grapes from the farm nearby. Laura Silverman: Flight Of The Concords: Grape Sorbet
The Oedipus stage manager paces anxiously by the footlights.
Michael glanced anxiously down the corridor, but Wilfred was nowhere to be seen.

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I did so, and Bailie Jarvie was looking anxiously around for another, the Scottish law requiring the subscription of two witnesses to validate either a bond or acquittance. Rob Roy
He was looking around anxiously, glancing up the stairs and towards the kitchen.
I just got so tired of anxiously crossing and uncrossing my legs and looking away from the screen.
‘Nothing for me, sir, thank you,’ anxiously undrawing the strings of the little bag; ‘but if, while you stay here, you could be so kind as to teach my sister cheap —’ Little Dorrit
They are waiting anxiously to see who will succeed him.
Altair shouted as he was thrown to the ground with a heavy thud, his horse pacing anxiously beside him.
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As the glasses clinked and the people chatted about cheeky Cabernets and perfect pinotages, representatives of the wine producers waited anxiously to be put to the test.
The shipwrecked sailor scanned the horizon anxiously every morning.
They were both waiting anxiously for the new baby to arrive.
His pale blue eyes peered anxiously at Vic.
I suppose that when I saw Dora in the garden and pretended not to see her, and rode past the house pretending to be anxiously looking for it, I committed two small fooleries which other young gentlemen in my circumstances might have committed — because they came so very natural to me. David Copperfield
She anxiously put a hand to her bangs, fixing imaginary strays and adjusting the many colored, chunky plastic bracelets on her arm.
Her cat mewed at her anxiously and snarled at Cameron, who snarled right back.
We watched anxiously during her descent from the tree.
His feet were unshackled, however, and tapped anxiously on the floor.
In fact, for a long time, Bourget rose at 3 a.m. and elaborated anxiously study after study, and sketch after sketch, well satisfied when he sometimes noticed his articles in the theatrical 'feuilleton' of the 'Globe' and the The French Immortals Series — Complete
He is anxiously awaiting the result of the medical tests.
She cast about anxiously for Alina and upon sighting her on the second story let out an earsplitting whinny.
In the emergency room, draped surgeons paced anxiously alongside empty gurneys.
The mare, having heard the same noise, gave a nervous snort, stamping her hooves anxiously.
I anxiously await the final volume, which will cover principally borates, carbonates, and sulfates.
I anxiously await your approval.
The car nosed out of the side street, its driver peering anxiously around.
We are on the balls of our feet, like tennis players awaiting service, anxiously twiddling our sticks.
We are anxiously awaiting the outcome of their discussion.
These letters reveal the eager young composer fretting anxiously over arrangements for the premiere of the work.
An epilogue wonders anxiously how the audience have liked the play, assuring them it was intended only to please.
One person becomes controlling, another anxiously vigilant, another person pretends that nothing at all matters, and still another is depressively passive. Michael Bader, D.M.H.: No, Virginia -- AT&T Just Seems Like the Great Satan
Ten years later Sammy and I still anxiously await the opening morning to spend time together at waters edge and each retrieve reminds me of when she was a spindled legged pup retrieving our one duck limit. New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman
Try not to anxiously stalk the postman or bite your nails down to the quick. Times, Sunday Times
The candour of this speech, in which his aversion to the Delviles was openly acknowledged, and rationally justified, somewhat quieted the suspicions of Cecilia, which far more anxiously sought to be confuted than confirmed: she began, therefore, to conclude that some accident, inexplicable as unfortunate, had occasioned the partial discovery to Mr Cecilia
When the bank collapsed -- or "readjusted" itself, as the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District would say -- along the North Branch by my house, neighbors anxiously pestered the alderman and the district for action. Chicago Reader
Oil companies are anxiously watching the seemingly inexorable decline in prices. Times, Sunday Times
Some came up anxiously, actually hoping they might be the lucky one; while others were indifferent; because there had been an interesting programme laid out for that morning's work, and they should hate to miss the "wigwagging" with signal flags; as well as more of Allan's trail talks, which were so great. The Boy Scouts' First Camp Fire or, Scouting with the Silver Fox Patrol
And of you I think much and anxiously since Mrs. Channing, amidst her delight at what she calls the happiest hour of her absence, in her acquaintance with you and your family, expresses much uneasiness respecting your untempered devotion to study. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
I wondered just how many stings I could take, as I anxiously scanned the surface for the float sac of a Portuguese man-of-war.
we watched anxiously
travois," and the great pony herds, to the fastnesses of the Big Horn; and now comes the opportunity for which an old Indian-fighter has been anxiously waiting. The Deserter
True, he could not stop himself from looking anxiously around every morning when the post owls arrived, nor, late at night before he went to sleep, prevent himself from seeing horrible visions of Sirius, cornered by dementors down some dark London street, but betweentimes he tried to keep his mind off his godfather. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
He probed the swelling anxiously with his finger.
Lorton, who had been watching anxiously, gave him a nod of approval.
She surveyed her purchases anxiously, then bought all the herbs to go with all this provender. SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
But I will come again, bringing hither a host of Argive troops, spearmen clad in bronze; for countless warriors are awaiting my return, and king Eurystheus in person at their head; anxiously he waits the issue here on the borders of Alcathous 'realm. The Heracleidae
They were so large I thought at first they were bear tracks, and I spent the rest of the day anxiously glassing the cliffs above.
I went inside, washed my hands and sat at the kitchen table, anxiously clutching a glass of cold lemonade, while my eyes rested on a cardinal pecking away at the food tray on the birdfeeder outside my window. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
But the famous Bongs! will have a hollow ring for millions of soccer fans anxiously waiting for news of their teams.
We were anxiously awaiting him trying to pass the ball off the backboard to himself for his 10th assist.
Archaeologists and site-workers anxiously probed into the sand and uncover three magnificently carved unidentified wooden anthropoid sarcophagi dating back to the 26th Dynasty.
Instead, he waited eagerly, anxiously, praying and hoping for his son's return.
The dim aura of red light, the smell of different chemical baths as you poured, the brilliant sharp focused light of the enlarger as you anxiously wait to see your negative secrets come to life; these are the sensory (even sensual) aspects of my paradise lost. Podcast
Am I boring you?" she asked anxiously.
Placing the can carefully upon the ground between his legs, he covered it with his hat and waited anxiously whatever impended. THE PRINCESS
They anxiously peered ahead for car crashes coming down the road and took evasive action. Times, Sunday Times
She anxiously scanned the faces of the men leaving the train.
The bar staff watch anxiously as the colour returns to his cheeks. Times, Sunday Times
The cast includes a seasoned drunk, a honey-tongued scandalmonger, a veteran who can never quite synchronise lines and moves, and a fretful worrier anxiously seeking the motivation for every piece of comic business. Noises Off - review
Emyr, as he saw me staggering with a big wether, asked me anxiously if I could manage it. TESTIMONIES
I anxiously await the appearance of the first Concord grapes from the farm ... Laura Silverman: Flight Of The Concords: Grape Sorbet
The intelligence, which had been so anxiously announced to her, she was now to be anxiously announcing to another. Emma
Ayla was nervous as she raced to dig up soaproot, horsetail fern, and red-rooted pigweed, and her stomach was a bundle of knots while she waited anxiously for boiling water from one of the cooking fires to extract the insecticidal element from the fern. The Clan of the Cave Bear
Prince William, 10, chewed his lip anxiously while eight-year-old Harry stared wistfully ahead, dreaming of Christmases past.
The intelligence, which had been so anxiously announced to her, she was now to be anxiously announcing to another. Emma
The intelligence, which had been so anxiously announced to her, she was now to be anxiously announcing to another. Emma
The crash demolished that illusion: after October 1929, businessmen, investors and politicians alike watched every economic signal anxiously, seeking reassurance that the financial flameout had not soured the economy as well.
He had long ago slowed to a trot, listening anxiously.
The archaeological indicators that Vikings once cruised offshore are the watchtowers built along the coasts of Spain, France, and Italy by people anxiously looking out for their signature longships.
She watched anxiously out her daughter's bedroom window as Jack dug a three-foot hole in the backyard.
Darren waited anxiously as he heard the stomp of hooves and a little neigh which he knew belonged to the foal.
Day after day I awaited anxiously an answer, till at length the mistico I had sent three days ago to General Church, to learn something of the fleet outside, which The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II
The plumber watched anxiously in case there was a hydronic leak in the underfloor heating system, but all was well. Bird Cloud
Tomorrow the children will receive their anxiously awaited presents.
We watched anxiously during her descent from the tree.
Between bands, the crowd wandered around, anxiously awaiting the headline act.
Without closing the record book she had been scanning Cale got up and strode anxiously to the main library corridor, then out through the double - doors that formed the entrance.
A bit of buffoonery and tomfoolery are always welcome after a tense high wire act, during which everyone in the audience has been holding their breath, and looking anxiously upwards, in total empathy with the performer.
I hope you don't mind," she added anxiously, remembering, it seemed, that Miss Melville was once supposed to have had a tendresse for Felix. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
Michael glanced anxiously down the corridor, but Wilfred was nowhere to be seen.
Summer said anxiously, patting her straight blond hair into place and batting her eyes rapidly.
They'd been waiting anxiously for the right opportunity, knowing that they'd never be able to beat the gunslinger in a straightforward fight.
Chief Inspector Meeks for one, will be anxiously awaiting the outcome.
The sight of the outfield player anxiously pulling on an outsized goalkeeper jersey is too rarely seen in these days of substitute goalkeepers.
Ben Collins waits anxiously for the jury to return a verdict in his trial.
The feet are particularly detailed, with their curled toes and arched insteps anxiously paddling the empty air.
Thousands of Bolton teenagers are anxiously awaiting the release of their A-level exam results on Thursday.
Mr. Ashe had been anxiously consulted, for the Eastern boy had no desire to be dubbed a tenderfoot; and now, except for its spotless newness, his costume was quite "Western and ranchified" -- according to Blue Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
In the chilly, predawn hours in Sao Paulo, Brazil, more than 1,000 people mill around a parking lot, waiting anxiously to have their picture taken.
She is anxiously awaiting a decision on her future.
She peered anxiously at the reddening bruise on Perkin's cheek, a twin to one on mine.
The players anxiously awaited the verdict of the umpire.
This event is anxiously awaited every year by those Pattaya folk who know how to shop for a great bargain.
He there sat all alone in the dark, anxiously waiting for "kenner" time. The Mines and its Wonders
Fans will anxiously await a fitness report on ever-present Pears before their crunch game at Wolves on Saturday.
As we returned from our journey we found them halfway down the hill, waiting patiently if anxiously for us at a crossroad in the path.
His horse saw them, though, and tugged anxiously at the reins, shying away.
Try not to anxiously stalk the postman or bite your nails down to the quick. Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday's left them fifteenth in the table and their smallest crowd for six years fretting anxiously. Times, Sunday Times
The signor is a good friend of the young milord and miladi? "questioned the landlord, deferentially, but very anxiously; for just then it flashed upon his memory that two years previous another grand" signor, "of reverend age like this one, had come inquiring about the young pair, and had ended in breaking up their union for the time. The Lost Lady of Lone
Chief Inspector Meeks for one, will be anxiously awaiting the outcome.
When are you going to begin, granp?" she demanded anxiously. The Story of Jessie
A decent interval elapsed, during which we looked at each other rather anxiously.
Am I boring you?" she asked anxiously.
They anxiously sought to avoid the admission of expressions which might be odious in the ears of of Americans, although they were willing to admit into their system those _things_ which the _expressions_ signified. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918
The pause became so long that Paula looked anxiously at her passenger, his face illuminated by the headlights of oncoming cars.
I was woken, however, by the light of a candle being held aloft above my face, and the sight of Gerald peering down at me anxiously.
A decent interval elapsed, during which we looked at each other rather anxiously.
Her brother, off to preschool this year, anxiously boarded the bus, then stopped, looked back and waved goodbye with a hint of an unshed tear lurking behind his lashes. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grieving and Recovery
I watched anxiously for the water signs that Sergeant Duril had taught me - a line of trees, a depression where the plants were thick and greener than usual or animal tracks converging - but I saw only that the land was becoming more barren and even stonier. Shaman's Crossing
As the confessional wends its way around the circle and begins to conclude, the girls anxiously wipe away their tears, and take up their obstinance once again as thoughts of their parents waiting outside the door begin to encroach upon the fragile intimacy of the classroom. American Grace
EVE looked up anxiously as Reno rode back in from his short exploration of the tributary canyon. ONLY YOU
She read through the casualty list anxiously.
The shipwrecked sailor scanned the horizon anxiously every morning.
Hold your tongue," interrupted the Irishman, anxiously; "but look, what the dooce are the girls up to with your black boys? Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series
Meanwhile, friends of his are anxiously waiting to see who gets an invite to his 50th birthday next month. The Sun
Heart still knocking against her ribs, she strode anxiously to the front door, rising up slightly on her feet to peer through the hole.
The excitement of Cynthia's revelation had been too much for her and Cynthia now anxiously rang the bell for the nurse.
I love roses of all varieties, including the ditzy, girly ones like PdR Rose d'Ete and SSS Velvet Rose, but I find the Deep Roses most swoonworthy: Ta'if, Parfum Sacre, and the gorgeous Lyric, of which I am anxiously awaiting a split in the next few weeks. Andy Tauer Une Rose Chypre: Perfume Review and a Prize Draw
I anxiously stood up, clutching the towel to my middle, and spread out my palm in a conciliatory gesture.
On this spot I saw abundance of plover; and as I walked my horse along at a foot pace, I observed many of the newly hatched young, around which the old birds anxiously hovered, continually resorting to a well-known artifice; and in the hope of alluring an enemy to a false pursuit, limping tenderly away with a flagging wing, as if they were lame.
And I fear for the darkness as four Justices anxiously await the single vote necessary to extinguish the light.
Instead of celebrating my 50th wedding anniversary with my husband, leisurely enjoying the beauty of glaciers and wildlife along Alaska's scenic Inside Passage, I was anxiously peering out of a rain-drenched helicopter window, huddled under heavy, metalliclike blankets. Starbulletin Headlines
I search the floor anxiously Examining each white ash and lint Making sure I drop none of the goodness. ICED
The man was just beginning to do the centre — called the boca, the mouth: and he looked anxiously at the design that was tacked to the loom. The Plumed Serpent
Jane wibbled anxiously in her wheelchair.
The Zimbabwean business community was on Monday reported to be anxiously awaiting a government signal to start talks with South Africa to review the outdated 1964 trade agreem between the two countries, ANC Daily News Briefing
Where we left off with the BBCA series was a wrenching, traumatic cliffhanger in which friendly ghost Annie Lorena Crichlow, so much more appealing than her Syfy counterpart is trapped in purgatory, reaching out to her friends through staticky TV screens as she pitiably weeps in a sinister waiting room and anxiously waits for whatever comes next. Roush Review: Being Human and More Weekend TV
I wondered if from one of those dark windows she were looking forth anxiously for succour, and I called the alchemist to my side and bade him send up a fire balloon as a signal that help was at hand. Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance)
The twins continued sitting there, their hearts drumming anxiously.
I love roses of all varieties, including the ditzy, girly ones like PdR Rose d'Ete and SSS Velvet Rose, but I find the Deep Roses most swoonworthy: Ta'if, Parfum Sacre, and the gorgeous Lyric, of which I am anxiously awaiting a split in the next few weeks. Andy Tauer Une Rose Chypre: Perfume Review and a Prize Draw
Henry looked anxiously towards me, but I was quite content to be an observer of this unfolding drama.
After these came the unfortunate Nicephorus; his looks were those of a man half-dead from the terror of immediate dissolution, and what he possessed of remaining attention, was turned successively to two black-stoled monks, who were anxiously repeating religious passages to him alternately from the Greek scripture, and the form of devotion adopted by the court of Constantinople. Count Robert of Paris
They have bred a fly to eat the borer insect and are now waiting anxiously to see if the fly itself causes problems.
Colleagues and comrades over the years were in a jubilant mood at the party anxiously awaiting presentations.
The cat miauled again, this time very anxiously indeed. The Lost Prince
Back in newsroom, subs anxiously await copy that they must check, correct and cut to fit their assigned pages, while Caroline, 16, puts the finishing touches to the paper.
They have about 1,000 ewes plus lambs between them and are anxiously watching them for signs of the disease.
The first suitcase connected to a smartphone via a tracking app means the days of anxiously waiting by the luggage carousel are over. Times, Sunday Times
While Pompey was thus anxiously and toilsomely endeavoring to gain the sea-shore, Cæsar was completing his victory over the army which he had left behind him.
And that left a lot of people feeling anxiously that they were never allowed to use ‘they’ as a bound pronoun even when they needed to.
He's anxiously awaiting his test results.
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When he'd anxiously come into work a few days ago, he'd expected the campus to be swarmed with police.
I anxiously await its next issues and wish you the best of luck.
Mutti motioned anxiously to Sophie, who bustled towards us with a pair of heavy greatcoats.
Nina chewed her lower lip anxiously.
Then there is a series of slowly rising and rapidly, anxiously strummed bass notes.
After the evaporation of the steaming vapour of spring has gone forward, and the farmer has operated in the way of ploughing and sowing, on whatever ready-prepared land he may have for the purpose, the first dry "spell" is looked forward to most anxiously to burn off the land which has been chopped during the winter – it is bad policy, however, to depend for the whole crop on this Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America
She read through the casualty list anxiously.
Daniel was shifting anxiously from foot to foot.
He agreed with her to begin, having met Mary, but that did not stop him from anxiously shaking his head and sweating quite profusely.
We're anxiously awaiting the court's ruling on this matter.
She read through the casualty list anxiously.
Personally, this sheds light on the hours I spent as a child fidgeting anxiously between my momma's, grandma's or aunt's knees while they parted, greased and plaited my hair.
She peered anxiously at the reddening bruise on Perkin's cheek, a twin to one on mine.
They were all waiting anxiously to hear the nitty-gritty details, as if throwing up your guts was a major accomplishment. Raven
The nation is waiting anxiously to see if the Organization of American States can broker a solution to the standoff.
Groups of relatives wait anxiously outside the gates. Times, Sunday Times
Nina chewed her lower lip anxiously.
The potential blog entries of the last week or so have now collected themselves into 5 or 6 rather unorganised text files, awaiting anxiously for their author to unleash them on the outside world.
Fans anxiously waited for goal-line technology to tell them they had scored their 14th goal of the season. The Sun
She is anxiously awaiting a decision on her future.
A bit of buffoonery and tomfoolery are always welcome after a tense high wire act, during which everyone in the audience has been holding their breath, and looking anxiously upwards, in total empathy with the performer.
And I fear for the darkness as four Justices anxiously await the single vote necessary to extinguish the light.
She had made a rubbing of the writing and was anxiously trying to decipher it.
She is anxiously awaiting a decision on her future.
Months of anxious waiting and nail-biting tension came to an end this week for more than 2000 local students who were anxiously awaiting the big occasion.
In fact, as I was anxiously thinking these thoughts, a couple aced us out of the last table in the screened-in porch.
On Saturday night residents in Chapel Street and Meeting Street anxiously watched as torrents of water poured down the Chapel Hill and the Back Lane.
Instead of our bodies having to work double-time to sift out the nutrients from food that is wolfed down anxiously, what if we gave our bodies an easier time of it?
The car nosed out of the side street, its driver peering anxiously around.
In the fall of 2003, U.S. officials watched anxiously as a potent guerrilla resistance rose across broad swaths of northern and central Iraq.
Anxiously he pressed the salesman to tell him which of us used cars in the wareroom was the slowest and safest. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
Horses pawed the ground anxiously as the warriors gathered.
Oil companies are anxiously watching the seemingly inexorable decline in prices. Times, Sunday Times
The boatmen were ordered to make the best of their way round the headland to the ordinary landing-place; the two gentlemen, followed by their servant, sought their way by a blind and tangled path, through a close copsewood, to the Manse of Knocktarlitie, where their arrival was anxiously expected. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
She kept looking anxiously at her watch.
At home Americans waited anxiously for the Allies to invade Western Europe. LASTING TREASURES
Vicky's eyes darted anxiously and there was a spark of fear.
On the deck below Maria heard the poor dog scratching at the wooden planks anxiously.
Split-up; but when the sandspit, over which they had portaged, crashed at the impact of a million tons, Corliss glanced at her anxiously. CHAPTER 25
When shiploads of contraband disembarked at Mississippi River towns, they were often outnumbered by the employers who anxiously awaited them.
Moreover, she learned that her father and mother anxiously expected her at that house to which they had removed, but did not reveal that he had _been removed_ in the care of two bailiffs, and the house named was but a resting place in his transit to jail. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
Other newcomers might recognise some of the crossroads and roundabouts I have found myself anxiously negotiating on the journey so far.
They anxiously peered ahead for car crashes coming down the road and took evasive action. Times, Sunday Times
Last month she stood anxiously in the hallway at the Kennedy Institute in Baltimore, afraid to look in the room where Nicholas was undergoing a painful treatment called chelation, which uses injections to cleanse the blood of some lead. Lead And Your Kids
Fans anxiously waited for goal-line technology to tell them they had scored their 14th goal of the season. The Sun
Approximately 10,000 freshers are expected to be leaving their friends and family at home and anxiously beginning a new chapter of their lives at the northern equivalent of Oxford and Cambridge.
He is anxiously awaiting the result of the medical tests.
He hovered anxiously about while she fed the greedy fledglings with the soft pulpy mass she prepared so carefully, and was always ready to look after the "bambini," as Maria insisted on calling the baby birds. Chico: the Story of a Homing Pigeon
They'd see me anxiously pulling on my shirt for the umpteenth time. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, for a long time, Bourget rose at 3 a.m. and elaborated anxiously study after study, and sketch after sketch, well satisfied when he sometimes noticed his articles in the theatrical 'feuilleton' of the 'Globe' and the 'Parlement', until he finally contributed to the great 'Debats' itself. Cosmopolis — Complete
Two fine, brown horses anxiously pawed at the cobblestone as Julius lent his hand to help me in.
It's about walking together—forward and back, side to side—one stepping smartly, the other lumbering anxiously.
He looked eagerly and anxiously at them, as if seeking for the "papoose" who was a little larger than Russ. Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's
Or suppose the individual is an eaglet of a rare species anxiously watched by conservationists in its nest.

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