ANXIETY in a Sentence

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The future life, the possible life which offered itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors and anxiety.

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 Meanings and Examples of ANXIETY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
anxiety
 n.  concern something in state of painful uneasiness; state of restlessness and agitation
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  This is direct religion, which is full of anxiety and responsibility for him who attempts its steep cliffs.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
2  The future life, the possible life which offered itself to him henceforth, all pure and radiant, filled him with tremors and anxiety.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
3  He examined the situation, and found it unprecedented; so unprecedented that in the midst of his revery he rose from his chair, moved by some inexplicable impulse of anxiety, and bolted his door.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—A TEMPEST IN A SKULL
4  Madeleine was still holding her hand, and gazing at her with anxiety; it was evident that he had come to tell her things before which his mind now hesitated.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—FANTINE HAPPY
5  In an eclipse in the night, in the sooty opacity, there is anxiety even for the stoutest of hearts.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
6  Cold, anxiety, uneasiness, the emotions of the night, had given him a genuine fever, and all these ideas were clashing together in his brain.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VII—CONTINUATION OF THE ENIGMA
7  He limped more out of anxiety than from infirmity.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
8  He listened with ardent anxiety.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE
9  Marius endured an indescribable moment of anxiety; but near the bed there was a mirror nailed to the wall, and it was thither that she was directing her steps.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE WORDS TO AN ENGLIS...
10  Marius waited in a state of anxiety that was augmented by every trifle.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
11  Spirits trembled in the social anxiety like leaves at the approach of a storm.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
12  In the first place, and this constituted the principal anxiety, Javert had not taken the prisoner prisoner.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—EMBRYONIC FORMATION OF CRIMES IN THE INCUBATIO...
13  Nevertheless, Jean Valjean did not reappear in the open air without profound anxiety.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE HOUSE WITH A SECRET
14  Jean Valjean watched these ravages with anxiety.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE ROSE PERCEIVES THAT IT IS AN ENGINE OF WAR
15  He was repaid for his conscientious anxiety in the character of a spectator.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1  Valium is usually prescribed to treat anxiety.
2  He has exhibited symptoms of anxiety and overwhelming worry.
3  Reports of this kind are guaranteed to cause anxiety.
4  It has sown confusion and anxiety among researchers by giving birth to the ambiguous concept of sensitive but unclassified research.
5  Her conduct occasions me great anxiety.
6  I must own to a feeling of anxiety.
7  The teacher praised him for his anxiety for knowledge.
8  Under his apparent calm lay real anxiety.
9  My sister puzzles me and causes me anxiety.
10  Unnecessary anxiety has been caused by media hysteria and misinformation.
11  Her anxiety mounted month by month.
12  We waited for news with a growing sense of anxiety.
13  There is a note of anxiety in her voice.
14  The aim is to reduce anxiety and help the patients relax.
15  He was waiting for his brother's return with anxiety.