On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Overeager. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as eager and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Overeager in a sentence
Overeager meaning
Excessively eager.
Synonyms of Overeager
Using Overeager
- The main meaning on this page is: Excessively eager.
- Useful related words include: eager.
- In the example corpus, overeager often appears in combinations such as: overeager to.
Context around Overeager
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overeager
- In this selection, "overeager" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, avoid, young, motivated, sperm, fans and composer stand out and add context to how "overeager" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a young overeager composer cobbling and as an overeager suburbanite. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overeager" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overeager
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Elfman composed an "overture to a non-existent musical" and called the piece "The Overeager Overture". (16 words)
She rejects his first fumbling attempt to kiss her, but mostly in an effort not to seem overeager. (18 words)
Before he found his footing there, he suspected — not incorrectly, Ms. Bowens said — that he came across as an overeager suburbanite. (21 words)
That’s a great balance, I think, because Jane’s pretty young and clearly had a traumatic upbringing, and I want to extend her a little slack for being overeager to bond with another adoptee by trying to force connections that just aren’t there. (45 words)
There were glimpses of a young, overeager composer cobbling together all his expertise in music, but with much thinner plots: Edgar’s struggles of love, Le Villi’s tragedy of young love thwarted. (33 words)
As audiences by now expected, Ibsen's next play again attacked entrenched beliefs and assumptions; but this time, his attack was not against society's mores, but against overeager reformers and their idealism. (33 words)
Example sentences (10)
It turned out I had an ectopic pregnancy, which is when overeager sperm races straight past the uterus and up the fallopian tube to fertilise an egg that’s still descending.
Right now, she loves to go to the beach by herself; she knows special spots where she can have privacy, avoid overeager fans, and simply enjoy the surf.
There were glimpses of a young, overeager composer cobbling together all his expertise in music, but with much thinner plots: Edgar’s struggles of love, Le Villi’s tragedy of young love thwarted.
Before he found his footing there, he suspected — not incorrectly, Ms. Bowens said — that he came across as an overeager suburbanite.
This motivated overeager and ignorant central planning politicians to jump at the opportunity to get some mileage among even more ignorant voters by killing a large percentage of entrepreneurs.
Even before Wick’s 60-minute reprieve is up, he is fending off colleagues overeager to collect the bounty on him.
That’s a great balance, I think, because Jane’s pretty young and clearly had a traumatic upbringing, and I want to extend her a little slack for being overeager to bond with another adoptee by trying to force connections that just aren’t there.
As audiences by now expected, Ibsen's next play again attacked entrenched beliefs and assumptions; but this time, his attack was not against society's mores, but against overeager reformers and their idealism.
Elfman composed an "overture to a non-existent musical" and called the piece "The Overeager Overture".
She rejects his first fumbling attempt to kiss her, but mostly in an effort not to seem overeager.
Common combinations with overeager
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- overeager to 2×