How To Use Eager In A Sentence

On arriving in Britain she found herself to be a virtual slave to Dunlop, who exhibited her to curious Europeans who were eager to view Baartman's steatopygous buttocks and genitalia. ANC Daily News Briefing
We were like sponges; we absorbed knowledge eagerly after the ten-year void.
Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it. The Man Who Held Up a Mirror to America
His assistant, a pretty young woman, is bright, very capable, and eager to help.
Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit. The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon

It was not just established states that were eager narrowly to define the right of self-determination as a right end colonial status.
I am eager to learn how to ride a bicycle.
He was as eager as his Captain to beat the record.
Chook! she was crying, and the dogs whined and yelped in eagerness of desire and effort to overtake Big THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE
He waits eagerly for people to recognise him in the street, and sometimes they do, and tell him off for being so horrid and mean. Times, Sunday Times
Few and far between were the desperate, overeager chat-up lines of some relationship-hungry singles.
They hurt for the wounded and the dead but they are eager to continue to attack.
Similar struggles exist in east Malaysia, where the land rights of indigenous groups are bitterly disputed with loggers eager to harvest the timber for export.
As you know, Bubba, I have no way to ever repay you for your unselfish gift of life you so eagerly gave to me. All I can offer to you is my undying love, my respect, my gratitude and my humble heart.
This was one reason for their eagerness to stress the roots of the police in ancient traditions of communal self-policing.
He is so eager to accommodate his supporters and contributors that there seems to be very little that he is not willing to do for them at the expense of the public interest.
Into this battered relic, she put her own meager possessions. HOUR OF THE HUNTER
But, hey, the show is so earnest and eager to please that such things are almost easy to overlook.
Our first semester is winding down, and all the pcvs are eagerly awaiting IST (In Service Training) in Gansu province at the end of January to meet up again! Sichuan Province: Mianyang « Peace Corps: China
Eager to attack Troy, Agamemnon kills her, and the Greeks are given favorable winds for their ships.
His portraits often show his subjects brimming with youthful idealism and naivety; touchingly eager for fame, rather than sullied by it. Times, Sunday Times
We are eager to sound off at the approach of anybody with a clipboard. Times, Sunday Times
If some extractive natural subsector gets scarce we will just substitute other sectors for it and growth of the whole economy will continue, not into any restraining biospheric envelope, but into sidereal space presumably full of resource-bearing asteriods and friendly highly-evolved aliens eager to teach us how to grow forever into their territory. From a Failed Growth Economy to a Steady-State Economy
Other messages were from good samaritans eager to volunteer aid.
He'd come uninvited, but not unexpected; if it was rude of us to be such unsolicitous hosts, I told myself, it was only rudeness paid in kind, so we tried to forgive one another, Willie and I, for our eager, curious hunger grown insatiable. Heron Lake
No doubt every cowboy car clamper is eagerly applying for one of these licences. The Sun
What's behind the smart suit and eager smile?
We look forward to your lecture with eager anticipation.
Bank officials in Addis Ababa were eager in interviews to discuss the Chinese model and whether it is possible to have development without freedom. Ben Rawlence: World Bank Feeding Repression in Ethiopia
Indeed, Fleet was eager to liquidate the preferred shares, because they legally precluded it from integrating those newly acquired assets.
Its meager light provided the group its only means of illumination.
She is a public-spirited person who is eager to correct the wrongs that we all see but we easily overlook.
Students entering the dining hall made an eager rumpus.
Students who had been successful during the term eagerly flipped through their portfolios, pointing out all of their good grades. Sara Vogel: Beyond Damage Control: Equipping Parents With Real Tools to Support Their Children in Mexico
That the sequels are the most eagerly awaited cinematic event of the year is not in question.
Most children are eager to please .
'Come, come, Sikes,' said the Jew appealing to him in a remonstratory tone, and motioning towards the boys, who were eagerly attentive to all that passed; 'we must have civil words; civil words, Bill.' Oliver Twist
For, they are eager to see the floating population streaming in at the time of political meetings, since it leads to a surge in their business transactions.
The crude items of every day use that were the few meager processions of the poor have become the prestige consumption of the affluent.
They listened, with eager attention, to the complaints of their captive children, who had suffered the most cruel indignities from the lustful or angry passions of their masters, and the same cruelties, the same indignities, were severely retaliated on the sons and daughters of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Itaca or Itaka: for diaphoresis in fever; this root is brought as an article of barter by the Arabs to Kilimane; the natives purchase it eagerly. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
The government offers meager help: a $130 annual payment to each widow, and a ration card for rice and oil.
He again applied his eye to the glass, and turning his ear to the partition, listened attentively: with a subtle and eager look upon his face, that might have appertained to some old goblin. Oliver Twist
They were so eager to close they could hardly get their ballpoints out fast enough.
His portraits often show his subjects brimming with youthful idealism and naivety; touchingly eager for fame, rather than sullied by it. Times, Sunday Times
The eager crowd are easily malleable in the Lady's gaze.
The police are eager to speak to anyone who can help us to find and arrest the culprits.
Especially in the age of postmodernism or the New Age, many people are eager to enjoy their present moments and realize their own individual dreams.
Each spring, corporate America's preeminent chieftains offer sage counsel to eager university graduates across the nation.
They noted that the cephalopod eagerly attacked the molt and invariably did so by working from the posterior of the lobster abdomen toward the anterior.
Huey, excited by Robert's ideas on deceit and self-deception, was eager for the three of us to get together.
He has been chasing bad pitches and appears overeager.
That extra tail-weight partly explains why the Octavia feels eager to point into a corner despite its soft and very comfortable springing, making it a surprisingly enjoyable car for a keen driver, apart from the overly snatchy brakes.
Local historians are eagerly counting down to five days of celebrations being staged for probably Chorley's most famous son.
She turned and saw the bay nudging his snout through the bars, eager for her strokes.
To my considerable surprise, they formed an instant, eager bond, and went into a tight conversational huddle for the next 45 minutes or so.
The wharves and warehouses on the Floss were busy again, with echoes of eager voices, with hopeful lading and unlading.
HuffPost's Sam Stein writes, Unwilling or perhaps uneager to let go of last week's scuffle over Mitt Romney's controversial distortion of an old Barack Obama quote, the Democratic National Committee announced on Monday a major ad campaign attacking the former Massachusetts governor's character. HUFFPOST FUNDRACE - Obama Takes A Page From Bush, GOP Targets Obama Through TV Ads, Palin Dead Enders Want Her To Reconsider
Eager hints would become rhapsodic proclamations; backstairs whispers would be babbled aloud in the corridors of the complex.
Plucky Anna bounces back from her ordeal the next morning, so eager is she to get a Van Gogh back to the nice lady who deserves it, but a Romanian tycoon dispatches a tiny hit woman to steal the painting away. Touch of Evil
The ride feels more grand tourer than eager hot hatch on the motorway, but once you make for an exit the Golf soon switches into fun mode.
Passage meet Ballyduff Upper in the County intermediate final at Walsh Park on Sunday next and the game is being eagerly looked forward to in the village and indeed around the barony.
In fact, many people eagerly follow the weather forecasts whenever bad weather is looming.
He reveals that he is impatiently awaiting permission to travel again and eager to be in the field.
The owner and the "surveyor" were the people responsible, and the plans, directions and details given to the workmen were astonishingly meager. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
But that night a new way seemed to open to me, and in my eagerness I awoke Charley from a sound sleep. DEMETRIOS CONTOS
He is never behindhand in offering advice, ie is always eager to advise.
He was too eager to succeed.
It was with a child's eager interest and pliant imagination that Bessie looked and listened, -- susceptible, credulous, unfastidious. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
All the miracle of sails; the steady foresail; the sensitive jibs; the press canvas delicate as bubbles; the reliable main; the bluff topsails; topgallants like eager horses; the impertinent skysails; the jaunty moonraker, were just canvas stretched on poles. The Wind Bloweth
But in most parts of it, the red carpet so eagerly unrolled for me is swiftly jerked out from under his feet.
We are unjust people (having imaginary arguments strikes me as a bit lacking in proportion, not so mention meagerness of world), and so we are continually confused into failing to give unto each thing its due. Fairness and Justice « Unknowing
In the mid-19th century the Norwegian government, eager to colonise with people a terrain it owned in name only, offered free land here to impoverished farmers from the south.
Then Sir Gawaine deliverly avoided his horse, and put his shield afore him, and eagerly drew his sword, and bade Sir Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
At last the chairman flung out his own suggestion, which the committee were eager to accept.
To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
When Ms. Aston and her compatriots appeared in traditional Martha Graham attire, Bracie and Ashleigh went wild; they fist-pumped eagerly at their mother's cartwheel. Arts Patrons Kick In a Dance Performance
You didn't run - that only made them eager for the chase.
Their eagerness to present a more palatable Golwalkar was also evident when they went in for presenting a 'filmy' version of Golwalkar. Kafila
He can be charming and funny, eager to introduce potential allies to people who can help them.
Miss Osborne, I say, thought that when he had given himself a little air, he would unbosom himself entirely, and prepared eagerly to listen. Vanity Fair
And the men appeared, some of his watch, others of the second mate's watch, routed from sleep -- men coatless, and hatless, and bootless; men ghastly-faced with fear but eager for once to spring to the orders of the man who knew and could save their miserable lives from miserable death. CHAPTER XXXVIII
Mr Bolton is eager to extol the virtues of geographical studies.
Even when, later still, the general's eager hand, stretching forth for the dusky flagon (it was sacrilege to sweep away those insignia of age and respectability), managed to capsize the candelabrum and sent the fluid "adamantine" spattering a treasured table-cloth (how quick the dash of the young trooper's hand upon the flame -- and its extinction!), a gentle smile was the sole rebuke, followed by a "Thank you, Mr. Harris. Tonio, Son of the Sierras A Story of the Apache War
Puerto Rico, Japan and Mexico all are rich in baseball history and tradition, with a ready-made fan base eager to snap up tickets and pony up for licensed merchandise.
Kwaque, squatted on the floor, his hams on his heels, paused from the rough-polishing of a shell comb designed and cut out by his master, and looked up, eager to receive command and serve. CHAPTER IV
While the nymphs lie low, sucking roots in sheltering soil, you will steer a course from the eager springs of boyhood to the braided delta of manhood and majority.
In a music industry that is quickly changing, Honor Roll Music recognizes that torrent search engines such as Isohunt should not be vilified, but rather worked with cooperatively in order to reach millions of music fans eager to discover and download new music. Bands get behind isoHUNT
Teachers are so eager to work there some of those who were hired willingly make a daily commute of nearly four hours to come to work.
THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Armed with listing sheets and info on comparable properties, these buyers filled two boldly titled buss eager to find a deal among the hundreds of foreclosed properties in Stockton, California. CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2008
Why limit yourself to dealing with a single lender, when there are so many eager suitors for your business?
I'm now eagerly waiting for the next batch to ripen, so I can start making my own sun-dried tomatoes and chunky tomato sauce.
Mudge and Roseroar had recovered completely from their insidiously induced lethargies and were eager to set out again. The Day of the Dissonance
And he finishes with the sort of depraved casuistry he is always so eager to spot in his opponents.
McCain started off his campaign stacking his long resume against what he characterized as the meager accomplishments of slick talking Ivy League upstart. Capitol Hill Blue - The oldest political news site on the Internet
Having a particularly rutty day (please see this video, I promise I clean up nice), I was eager to get out of my blahs by cruising the StyleCaster site. Andrea Chalupa: StyleCaster: A Free Personal Stylist, Only Nicer
Miner is spot-on, down to her brittle smile and overeager voice.
Ray had a gift for bringing out the musical talent in so many young students and the annual shows were eagerly awaited, filling the Town Hall for a week of nights every Hallowe'en.
Tom is soon so weary and exhausted that he cannot even read his Bible, and he draws it out of his pocket one night and attempts to read it as his meager corn cake is cooking.
She is eager to look after me. Times, Sunday Times
The next rains are not expected until April, by which time the meagerness of the harvest will be felt intensely by the people living in this region -- there will, once again, be hunger and starvation. David Weiss: Gold -- the Color of Impending Starvation
Too many players were looking for the percentage pass and too few eager to take a risk. Times, Sunday Times
He came on strong late in the four-round bout, consistently landing counterpunches against the overeager Chinese fighter.
With a strange combination of excitement, anxiety and eagerness, I rushed toward him as I saw him outside the gate at the airport.
In her 2007 book, "Basic Black," she recalls photocopying her résumé at the office of a job she was eager to move on from. NYT > Home Page
• Inflation-adjusted after-tax incomes of Americans, up 2% since June 2009, haven't grown so meagerly in the early stages of any other post-World War II upturn. Weak Economic Rebound Suggests Statistical Parallels to 1980 and Other Anemic Upturns
Eager to hook into a career but can't find one right for you?
The Leigh Centurions captain put eager children through their paces at rugby.
Love you, think of you, love you secretly, eagerly love you, wait, feel disappointed, try hard, lose, and feel sad, go apart, and recall.
Huge crowds eagerly awaited his arrival. Times, Sunday Times
Once, indeed, he guides her hand to transcribe in a book the words of her exaltation, the Ave, and the Magnificat, and the Gaude Maria, and the young angels, glad to rouse her for a moment from her dejection, are eager to hold the inkhorn and to support the book. English literary criticism
They are eager to try anything they hear will boost their immune system, vitality and libido.
He was Carl Schirmer, the avatar of ennui, the eternal ephebe, always more eager for ambience than destiny. In Other Worlds
There was nothing unusual about any of this and no doubt the hooligan gangs of both clubs were eager for more trouble after the game.
If you knew how to take care of people, you could transform 10,000 lazy, shiftless souls into 10,000 eager-to-work-for-you people.
Hu is just the kind of emigre Beijing has been eager to lure back to bolster an economy growing rapidly but short of talented managers and innovators. Fore, right!
Its greatest weakness is its meager budget and limited scope.
The clean-up will continue for many months while the outcome of the official inquiry will be eagerly awaited.
The electric rides in the second park too have their share of eager-beaver customers who giggle and scream through the train ride, the merry-go-round and the horse and the duck rides.
Old Man's War, the first in a series I eagerly await, is a fast-paced, fun, tip-of-the-hat to Heinlein that succeeds in every way it can. REVIEW: Old Man's War by John Scalzi
This marks an interesting divide because women - especially California women - have certainly been willing and eager to vote for that other rapacious hound.
The banks eagerly lent monety to people whose monthly income didn't cover PITI, much less the other minor things like food, transportation, other debts. "The government is promoting bad behavior...."
The new religion was eager to convert the pagan world.
To love someone in secret is like a seed in bottle waiting for growing up, though not sure whether the future will be more beautiful, still waiting it earnestly and eagerly.
In the very last pew, on the aisle, sat an eager old colored woman -- one of those typical "mammies" now so seldom seen -- in an old-fashioned bonnet and shawl. Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands
Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs. The Two Trees
And the eager attention with which his flock, asquat on the floor, listened to a very long sermon, showed he had chosen well when he refused to leave them. High Albania
He is, by inclination, eager to please, keen to win support within his party and go with the political grain.
He said: 'The linesman was too eager. The Sun
they scratched a meager living
A young groom, eagerly attired, stands before a doorway, which in turn looks out onto a landscape of sun-scarred desert, aureate sands stretching to a blinding, azure sky.
As well as nowhere to park I discovered three traffic wardens eagerly sticking tickets on any and every car that had attempted to park where they could.
In the end, due to the meagerness of both our resources and our carpentry skills, we settled on a balance constructed of wood and a precariously balanced wire hanger.
The company is eager to gain a foothold in Europe.
These are two young bucks full of guile and cunning, mobile and versatile in the modern fashion and eager to wreak havoc with Dutch organisation.
They may be shills eager to steer you into a favored silver or wood shop, which give them a cut.
Residents of the village in Ireland's County Offaly were eagerly anticipating the president's pilgrimage. Obama: US 'Inspired' by Ireland's Efforts to Bring Peace to Northern Ireland
Otherwise, he would live, and that meant eating whatever his captors gave him in meager portions twice a day: fish heads, fish scales, leaves and rice. McDaniel, Norman A.
No wonder I was constantly admonished by my father to summon all my meager spiritual resources and be on my best behavior.
At the end of the film, he and one of the producers were really eager to hear the criticisms of the audience.
Yet the decorations were always meager, and their gifts chosen with his usual parsimony.
Two captains ride before them on shaggy ponies, the taller in armor, stained and rusted with many a storm and fray, the other in brilliant inlaid cuirass and helmet, gaudy sash and plume, and sword hilt glittering with gold, a quaint contrast enough to the meager garron which carries him and his finery. Westward Ho!
Eagerly she tugged the card off the Cellophane wrapping - then stared at it in confusion.
‘Lewis-Tyson is the matchup the whole world has been waiting for, I am confident I will cement my legacy,’ he told eager pressmen today.
She is sweet, calculating, eager, and very self-absorbed.
They were eager for a second bite of the cherry.
Those on hand waited eagerly for the choppers as the mist turned to rain and the wind whipped the palm trees that edge the field.
We are eagerly anticipating the arrival of many more baby animals, including lambs and more piglets, over the forthcoming weeks.
‘Burro! ‘a tricycling tot would squeak, pedalling up eagerly.
The government is eager to attract foreign capital.
The new directors are eager to break with the past.
Sometimes an author when notified is eager to have his/her publisher make adjustments to avoid confusion. Lorcan Dempsey’s post on name authorities « Collocate and Disambiguate
His eagerness will not avail against the fitness and skill of his opponent.
Global investors are eager and Indian entrepreneurs have that they are a cut above the rest.
The saleswoman in the shop always eager to please everybody.
She never spoke to anyone but would nod at Toussaint, who brought her shares of their meager food.
The posthumous publication of his diaries is awaited with trepidation by some and eager anticipation by those who knew him best. Times, Sunday Times
She smiled at the eagerness that faded to disappointment.
Stealth stumbled over her words, so eager was she to get them out.
We eagerly took the opportunity to get down and do stamping exercises and "cabby" arms to try and get warm. Fanny Goes to War
They who had practised penances and observed excellent vows for amrita now seemed to be eager seekers after amrita (celestial ambrosia). The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva
Does it celebrate his unique gifts and encourage the contribution he is more than eager to make?
Death, old age, are words without a meaning, that pass by us like the idle air which we regard not. Others may have undergone, or may still be liable to them--we "bear a charmed life", which laughs to scorn all such sickly fancies. As in setting out on delightful journey, we strain our eager gaze forward.
They crowded round the spokesperson, eager for any news.
I was eager to get back to work as soon as possible.
Like the male poet who adopts a macho pose, church officials are eager to seem suave and worldly.
Politicians eagerly seek association with film icons; often stars shift seamlessly into politics, as done most famously by MG Ramachandran in Tamil Nadu.
Often spouses aren't eager to relinquish their newly acquired skills of independence and self-reliance.
She settled back in bed and eagerly devoured the plain, institutional meal. WHO KILLED TIFFANY JONES?
I can understand that Blackburn are eager for a reply but I cannot give them my decision yet.
He's eager to open the minds of his audience to different kinds of music.
Again, like today's, its doings were chronicled by an irreverent, iconoclastic press eager for celebrity gossip and social scandal.
Gasland in Pennsylvania could get your name circulated to law enforcement officials eager to protect the gas drilling industry from ordinary citizens like you. Alison Rose Levy: 'Gasland': When Going to the Movie Means You're a Terrorist
The bar owner eagerly pocketed it, and within a few seconds from good service, he was sipping on a tankard of rum, eyeing the surely crowd.
You wonder how frustrating it must be, still scrabbling to plug holes in low budgets after years of eager critical acclaim?
Fairfax tells me that he is a suitor, eager to lay claim to a girl who is now only eleven.
And the men appeared, some of his watch, others of the second mate's watch, routed from sleep -- men coatless, and hatless, and bootless; men ghastly-faced with fear but eager for once to spring to the orders of the man who knew and could save their miserable lives from miserable death. CHAPTER XXXVIII
At the New York International Gift Fair last month, San Francisco potter Lisa Neimeth showed off her quirky, mostly made-to-order tableware to eager buyers. Anything but Plain White
Major Mallaby-Kelby was a keen pushful officer, immensely eager to maintain the well-known efficiency of the Brigade while the colonel was away; but he took me into his confidence on another matter. Pushed and the Return Push
The president praised teachers for their meritorious service in educating students, but declined to touch on teachers' complaints about their meager wages and poor living conditions.
It should because Bush & Co. are philosophically and authentically uneager to crack down on their corporate cash base. Mark Green: Laissez Isn't Fair
With an eager, springy step, distantly reminiscent of a shopwalker heading a procession of customers, with a touch of the style of the winner in a walking-race to Brighton, the once slow-moving butler led the way to the headmaster's study. The Head of Kay's
Some were kind of grabby, and some were just clearly eager to get married so their toilets were cleaned more often, and came across as impatient with this whole dating process (especially since I'm sure they absorbed the cultural message that a woman is flattered by having a perfect stranger want to get you in a white dress quickly). Feminist blogs
90's poppy/experimental / psych dreamers The Olivia Tremor Control played a couple shows here in NY last week, which I was eagerly awaiting for months.
Easily fired at the idea of any injustice, and eager to redress the grievances of _the poor, _ Forester immediately concerted with these boys a scheme to deliver them from what he called the insolence of the dancing-master, and promised that he would compel him to go round by another street. Tales and Novels — Volume 01
I'm guessing proponents of creationism were eager to shed this image of backwoods ignorance opponents tend to associate with their theories, and leaped to embrace this new spin.
And Maren Le Moyne -- venturer of the venturers, flame of fire among them, urger, inspirer, and moral leader, a living pillar before them in her eagerness -- must needs curb her soul in bonds of patience and wait at Fort de Seviere for another spring. The Maid of the Whispering Hills
But betray too eager curiosity she would not. Anne of Green Gables
And it appalls me that people who claim for their views the authority of science routinely and arbitrarily insist on a brutally reductionist notion of what a human being is, what the human mind is, that justifies as inevitable every sort of meagerness and rapacity. Marilynne Robinson: Religion, Science and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
The reality is that some will eagerly solicit the uninformed to support their agenda via the one-note, often sensationalized message of the media.
The thousands who have read and loved Mr. Robinson's earlier story of the little Cumberland mountain girl, whose bright courage won for her the affectionate appellation of "Smiles," will eagerly welcome her return. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
But Jules was not eager for classroom learning, he hungered for adventure.
He wasn't the least bit perturbed by the meager audience, nor was he disturbed by the obvious pastoral snub.
These superstitions were nourished by ecclesiastical institutions, for which the poet had meager respect.
He was intensely eager, indeed avid, for wealth.
The President is eager to avoid a head-on clash with Congress over his health policies.
Besides its spot-on timeliness, "Outsourced" is a delightful comedy for how it deftly harvests laughs from the inevitable culture clash, from Todd's overeagerness to bridge the gap, and from the innate silliness of the company's product line (whoopee cushions, foam fingers and the like). 2010 Fall TV Lineup: 10 New Shows Worth Checking Out
A place of timeless beauty, it beckons to anyone eager to explore remote natural wonders.
Both sounded eager for the pleasantries to end. Times, Sunday Times
The combination of pink and yellow irritated me the whole time they were flowering; I have been eagerly awaiting cooler, wetter weather so that I can move the phlox to another border where their bright flowers will blend in more easily.

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