make anxious
Example Sentences
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He said: "The charges make anxious reading, in particular charge two. Both are serious matters."
From BBC • May 18, 2017
Again in my cell I address myself to sleep; and succeed in getting a brief nap, which is broken by my good friend Joe, who comes to make anxious inquiries after my health.
From Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York by Osborne, Thomas Mott
About two hours afterward, when the missing boy was being searched for, a man came to the Edison home to make anxious inquiry of the companion with whom he had last been seen.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis
There was not a sound of a bell that did not make anxious hearts throb.
From Nuttie's Father by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
"Sure?" asked Ramuntcho again, whom these eyes make anxious.
From Ramuntcho by Loti, Pierre
