burning with excitement
Example Sentences
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“Everyone in Japan was burning with excitement about the Games,” said Kazuo Inoue, 69, who vividly recalls being glued to the new color television in his family’s home in Tokyo in 1964.
From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021
Very gently, burning with excitement as if he had been touching gold, Lord Talbot laid them on a desk.
From Time Magazine Archive
He filled the office of chancellor during times burning with excitement, and he himself embodied and expressed the fervour of the times.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
On Verrazzano's return to Dieppe, he sent the King a written account of his travels, and France was presently burning with excitement over the abundant riches of the New World.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Bryan, Claude Glennon
Quite deliberately, though with cheeks burning with excitement, he walked out of the room, leaving the door open, and simultaneously heard the crunch of the gravel under the wheels of his mother's returning motor.
From Across the Stream by Benson, Edward Frederic
