anxiously
with anxiety or apprehension
How often you will meet it
Rank 2,722 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 6,117 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.003% of every word in the library.
What it means
adverb
- with anxiety or apprehension also: uneasily, apprehensively we watched anxiously
anxiously in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The others were all looking at her anxiously.
Other People's Money · Emile Gaboriau · Chapter 1
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Mr. Burton politely voiced his regrets and watched him anxiously.
Admiral Peters Odd Craft, Part 14. · W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs · Chapter 1
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He paused by the fountain, glancing for a moment anxiously downward.
The Abandoned Room · Wadsworth Camp · Chapter 1
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To-day it was not tranquil; it flashed anxiously here and there, and the girl smiled.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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There he opened his eyes, looked anxiously at me, and asked who I was and what had happened to him?
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 · Georg Ebers · Chapter 1