Wondering how to use Anxiously in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as uneasily.
Anxiously meaning
In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
Synonyms of Anxiously
Using Anxiously
- The main meaning on this page is: In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
- Useful related words include: uneasily, apprehensively.
- In the example corpus, anxiously often appears in combinations such as: anxiously awaiting, are anxiously, anxiously waiting.
Context around Anxiously
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 9 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Anxiously
- In this selection, "anxiously" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, people, breath, fans, await, waiting and awaiting stand out and add context to how "anxiously" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include american people anxiously await the and businesses are anxiously waiting to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "anxiously" sits close to words such as aberration, af and akbar, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with anxiously
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Everyone was holding their breath, anxiously waiting for what would come next. (12 words)
I was ashen, and my wife anxiously asked if I needed medical assistance. (13 words)
She waited anxiously for his arrival and opened her eyes slightly to see his reaction. (15 words)
So being an American Jew in 2023 is choosing between 1) taking my kids to pray, anxiously looking at the exits worried about their safety or 2) staying home and letting the anti-Semites define my Jewishness. (37 words)
After diesel fuel that spilled into a stream, local anglers and businesses are anxiously waiting to learn of any long-lasting harm to an area known as a haven for Maine’s most iconic fish. (35 words)
One of those vault songs was "," which reveals that Taylor, now 33, has been anxiously fearing the day that she is replaced by a fresh, younger singer since she was 22 years old. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
After diesel fuel that spilled into a stream, local anglers and businesses are anxiously waiting to learn of any long-lasting harm to an area known as a haven for Maine’s most iconic fish.
Dozens of people anxiously wait to withdraw money from cash dispensers that is crippled by cash shortages at a bank in Kano, northwest Nigeria, on February 8, 2023.
Everyone was holding their breath, anxiously waiting for what would come next.
Fans anxiously await the release of each generation to see what Game Freak has cooked up to add to the ever-expanding Pokedex.
I took my card and rushed back to school, anxiously glancing over my shoulder to see if he was watching.
It’s unclear what led to the fight between Williams and Stewart, but viewers are anxiously awaiting the premiere.
I was ashen, and my wife anxiously asked if I needed medical assistance.
Jewish celebrities and executives are anxiously rushing to hire military-trained armed bodyguards as the war in Gaza escalates, according to reports.
Meanwhile, his parents and siblings sit by the phone a continent away anxiously awaiting reassurance of his safety.
Migrants anxiously line up to receive wristbands from a U.S. Border Patrol agent that note the day they arrived at a makeshift open-air migrant camp in Jacumba Hot Springs.
Nineteen-year-old Marta Banakh anxiously awaits the train’s next brief stop at one of its nine intermediate stations on the way to Kramatorsk.
One of those vault songs was "," which reveals that Taylor, now 33, has been anxiously fearing the day that she is replaced by a fresh, younger singer since she was 22 years old.
One of those watching anxiously would be Punjab Congress chief Amarinder Singh Raja ‘Warring’, with no love lost between him and his predecessor, Sidhu.
President Biden and his administration must navigate these troubled waters, while the American people anxiously await the outcome, hoping for a brighter economic future.
Rescue workers pulled out one man, carrying him on a stretcher through a dense crowd of hundreds of people anxiously watching the rescue efforts.
She waited anxiously for his arrival and opened her eyes slightly to see his reaction.
Sixty years ago, a crowd of us young people anxiously massed around a black-and-white TV in my college student union building.
So being an American Jew in 2023 is choosing between 1) taking my kids to pray, anxiously looking at the exits worried about their safety or 2) staying home and letting the anti-Semites define my Jewishness.
So, while viewers anxiously await the return of 's twisted, dark fantasy, could be the DC show that fills the void.
The anime and manga communities have anxiously awaited AI's descent upon the scene, and with the return of The Ancient Magus' Bride manga on December 21, that time has come.
Common combinations with anxiously
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: