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How to use anxiously in a sentence

20 example sentences · adverb

Anxiously means in an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously. Example: “He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child.”

Examples of anxiously by meaning

adverbIn an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

  • He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child.
  • 'Even in summer, Grannie?' Heidi persisted anxiously.1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 46
  • High school seniors across California are anxiously awaiting word on their public university acceptances.2026 March 27, Mikhail Zinshteyn, Carolyn Jones, “Getting into a UC or Cal State requires these classes. Almost half of students don’t take...

More sentences with anxiously

  • Nico was growling when he anxiously pressed the message retrieval key.2012, Mark Thornton, Bridesmen of Madison County. From the entry blatino
  • "Oh, yesss," he muttered in a mousy Germanic accent, hunching over and twiddling his fingers anxiously.2009 January 8, Ben Sisario, “Addicted to Peter Lorre (That Voice, Those Eyes)”, in New York Times. From the entry yesss
  • “If you are not ready, come with me to another beach,” Japheth said anxiously.1957, The Saturday Evening Post Stories. From the entry Japheth
  • "Aren't you feeling so well this morning?" she asked him anxiously.1951, Josephine Tey, The Daughter of Time. From the entry temperature
  • Flanders bent over and looked anxiously at the baby, asleep, but frowning.1922 October 26, Virginia Woolf, chapter 1, in Jacob’s Room, Richmond, London: […] Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, →OCLC…. From the entry wedge
  • I do wish you'd come away, Princey ! ” said the little girl anxiously.1919, Ruth Belmore Endicott, Carolyn of the Sunny Heart. From the entry treachersome
  • Oh, can’t you?” The Manager paused in his midair flight and regarded the child anxiously.1915, Life 1915-12-30: Volume 66, Issue 1731, Time Incorporated, page 1273. From the entry midair
  • The captain watched him anxiously as he took a long look.1906, Herbert Strang, In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India, Illustrated, India: Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 115. From the entry perspective glass
  • She prodded at the contents anxiously with a wooden spoon, and a chunk of vegetable bobbed gently in the stew.2012, Chris Smyth, Dinner at Mine. From the entry auberginey
  • At each table stood a young, slim, poker-faced croupier serving the punters who anxiously watched the turning of the cards.2004, Tim Hatton, Tock Tock Birds: A Spider in the Web of International Terrorism, page 284. From the entry floor
  • You look pale,” the flight observeress asked, anxiously.1959 January 26, “Dusty” Miller, “The Daily Grist”, in Wilmington News-Journal, one hundred twenty-first year, number 86, Wilmington, Oh.…. From the entry observeress
  • "We was to have a leetle celebration Thanksgiving eve." And he added somewhat anxiously: "You ain't forgot about that, Bill?1922, A. M. Chisholm, A Thousand a Plate. From the entry leetle
  • Jorrocks anxiously, spurring Arterxerxes vehemently, an insult that the animal resented by a duck of his head and a hoist of his heels.1903, Robert Smith Surtees, Handley Cross, New York: D. Appleton, page 431. From the entry gay
  • She plucked a rosehead and anxiously began pulling off the petals as she listlessly wandered, remembering Antonia's words that perhaps the boys were better off at Phillips.2023, Michelle Cox, A Haunting at Linley. From the entry rosehead
  • Wang having spent the days before his death anxiously asking local officials about the fine, which he couldn’t afford to pay, according to Chinese media reports.2014 June 16, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Father’s Day Plea to Educate China’s ‘Illegal’ Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Xingyi
  • In one cage two large, middle-aged gentlemen in top-hats and striped trousers were prowling up and down, anxiously gazing through the bars as though they were waiting for something.1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Full Moon”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 158. From the entry top-hat
  • A panel of architects who might loosely be described as the local athenaeum of their profession are awaiting, anxiously, the next edition of the bimonthly journal that bears their names.1994 June 3, Michael Miner, “Will This Man Save Inland Architect?/A Simple Process”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry athenaeum

Meaning of anxiously

  1. adverb In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

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Questions about anxiously in a sentence

How do you use anxiously in a sentence?
Anxiously is used as an adverb. For example: “He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child.”
What is a short sentence with anxiously?
“'Even in summer, Grannie?' Heidi persisted anxiously.”
What does anxiously mean?
Anxiously means in an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.

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