adverb

• In a manner resulting from or revealing anxiety.

  ‘they listened anxiously to the radio for more information’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Meanwhile, he is wide awake, anxiously pacing about his garden.’
  • ‘Thereafter she always inquired anxiously about the health of her students.’
  • ‘He sits quietly, anxiously waiting for me to begin my questions.’
  • ‘I am anxiously awaiting the release of the next volume.’
  • ‘Anxiously searching for their own identity, adolescents wish to find their answer to the question, "Who am I?"’
  • ‘These letters reveal the eager young composer fretting anxiously over arrangements.’
  • ‘I had been anxiously awaiting this DVD for some time, based on TV spots I had seen.’
  • ‘A formless dread seems to be working anxiously within him.’
  • ‘We are anxiously awaiting the results from your studies as we continue to conduct our own.’
  • ‘Workers waited anxiously for news about whether they would have to forgo their paychecks.’