anxiously

Example Sentences

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When a colleague asks where he is, she anxiously replies, “Uh, he’s in a personal.”

From The Wall Street Journal

His five children are missing their dad, she says, and the family are still waiting anxiously for answers, not knowing if he was even on the boat hit in the strike.

From BBC

As the family anxiously waits for the court's verdict, they are holding out hope.

From BBC

But here, residents had been anxiously waiting for months to hear if their efforts to save a beloved trash collector’s French Quarter contract would pay off.

From The Wall Street Journal

She is anxiously waiting for the communications networks to be restored so she can talk to her sister.

From BBC