eager
Example Sentences
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But those eager to own their own need not despair: The transit system announced shortly before 3 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times
Paul McCartney emerged from the wreckage of the Fab Four in 1970, eager to ferret out a fresh sound.
Imagine a baby Brachiosaurus no bigger than a golden retriever searching for plants alongside its siblings while trying to avoid predators eager for an easy meal.
From Science Daily
The other firefighters, too, seemed eager to “just get this hose picked up,” Pike said, adding that he was working overtime the day after a holiday “because nobody else wanted to work it.”
From Los Angeles Times
If you can’t, leave before you are reduced to a soulless husk of the eager, happy person who walked into that chamber a decade ago.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
