anxious
Example Sentences
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Be fretful, be anxious, be a quivering wreck about what might be in America, but keep perspective, too.
From BBC
"I had to force myself to eat sometimes, I just had no appetite, because I was so anxious about not having housing in a new country by myself."
From BBC
She imagined herself in front of everybody, a poem in hand, and felt anxious again.
From Literature
Investors had come into the session anxious about whether surging oil prices would force the Fed’s hand.
From Barron's
Policymakers are anxious to see whether those increases spur expectations of higher inflation in the long-term, a dynamic that can itself generate inflation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
