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How to use agog in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective, adverb

Agog means in a state of eager desire; full of anticipation; highly excited with curiosity. Example: “Everyone’s agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.”

Examples of agog by meaning

adjectiveIn a state of eager desire; full of anticipation; highly excited with curiosity.

  • Everyone’s agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.
  • By that time not only the Australian press and public but also the Federal Government was agog with speculation as fresh UFO reports flowed in.1965, James Holledge, Flying Saucers Over Australia, Sydney: Horwitz Publications, page 31
  • Keen was the frost and crisp the snow over our world; and we young fry of the King households were all agog to enjoy life—for was it not Saturday, and were we not left all alone to keep house?1913, Lucy Maud Montgomery, The Golden Road, L.C. Page & Co.

adjectiveWide open, agape.

  • Joe shook his head in awe, eyes agog and mouth hanging open as mine once must have hung for the tales of the north woods' legendary denizens.1964, Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion, page 190

adverbIn an astonished or excited manner.

  • Mifflin?" she said, as he advanced all agog from his smoky corner.1919, Christopher Morley, “Titania Arrives”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 69

More sentences with agog

  • I'm all agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.From the entry twist
  • The Tishaa were agog over the potlatching for the child who had stumbled.1955, Edward Sapir, Morris Swadesh, Native Accounts of Nootka Ethnography, Bloomington, Ind.: Center in Anthropology, Folklore and…. From the entry potlatch
  • 'They're coming!' I said and I was all agog.1973 [1991] Bryan MacMahon [translation from the Irish of Peig Sayers] Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayers of the Great Blasket Island…. From the entry tatterara
  • To the child and the savage the unfamiliar world is all agog and agibber with outlandish or terrible indwellers.1906, Hartley Burr Alexander, Poetry and the Individual, page 214. From the entry agibber
  • O freeze my soul in fitful sleep lest wind-filled sprites bequim the air and take us singly or in threes in mad agog or lumpsome nub, aghast to Milford Haven.2009, S. Purcell, Popular Shakespeare. From the entry lumpsome

Meaning of agog

  1. adjective In a state of eager desire; full of anticipation; highly excited with curiosity.
  2. adjective Wide open, agape.
  3. adverb In an astonished or excited manner.

Full definition of agog

Questions about agog in a sentence

How do you use agog in a sentence?
Agog is used as an adjective and adverb. For example: “Everyone’s agog at the new twist to the royal scandal.”
What is a short sentence with agog?
“'They're coming!' I said and I was all agog.”
What does agog mean?
Agog means in a state of eager desire; full of anticipation; highly excited with curiosity.

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