EAGERNESS in a Sentence

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As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.

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 Meanings and Examples of EAGERNESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
eagerness
 n.  keen or vehement desire in the pursuit or for the attainment of something, or a manifestation of such desire; zeal
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I think we should go," said Scarlett, trying to curb her eagerness and to keep her face earnest and simple.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  He drew a swift breath and with an effort wiped from his eyes the eagerness her words had brought, an eagerness which she was too confused to see.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
3  And Mrs. Trenor, glowing with her sex's eagerness to smooth the course of true love, enveloped Lily in a long embrace.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
4  He would not have liked any evidence of eagerness.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
5  Her fingers fluttered; her sympathy came out in spurts; she sat on the edge of a chair in eagerness to be near her auditor, to send her enthusiasms and optimism across.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Her eagerness began to lessen the moment they stopped at a red frame station exactly like the one they had just left at Gopher Prairie, and Kennicott yawned, "Right on time."
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
7  I was all eagerness to see his face, but he kept it averted for some time while employed in unlacing the bag's mouth.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
8  To every pitch of the ship there was a pitch of the boiling oil, which seemed all eagerness to leap into their faces.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
9  Antonia had made herself cloth working-slippers out of Mr. Harling's old coats, and in these she went padding about after Charley, fairly panting with eagerness to please him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: III
10  Of this scene, Duncan, who, in his eagerness to report his arrival, had entered unannounced, stood many moments an unobserved and a delighted spectator.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
11  The veteran seized the offered paper, without waiting for Duncan to translate the speech, and with an eagerness that betrayed how important he deemed its contents.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16
12  Heyward seized the paddle, and applied himself to the work with an eagerness that supplied the place of skill, while Hawkeye was engaged in inspecting the priming of his rifle.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20
13  "No, no; I have not said so much as that," returned Hawkeye, drawing back with suitable discretion, when he noted the eagerness with which Magua listened to his proposal.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 30
14  In his eagerness to expedite the pursuit, Uncas had left himself nearly alone; but the moment his eye caught the figure of Le Subtil, every other consideration was forgotten.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
15  As the landscape changed from brown to green, the army awakened, and began to tremble with eagerness at the noise of rumors.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
16  He was eager to get out of the ruck and distinguish himself in some way.
17  He was intensely eager, indeed avid, for wealth.
18  Many states bordering on the EU are eager to join.
19  He's a bright kid and eager to learn.
20  The engineer was an eager participant in technical co - operation.
21  He was eager to get into politics.
22  I was eager to get back to work as soon as possible.
23  The low prices still pull in crowds of eager buyers.
24  The other banks are going to be very eager to help, provided that they see that he has a specific plan.
25  Robert was eager to talk about life in the Army.
26  He was eager to learn all she could teach him.
27  All were eager to get a slice of Hong Kong's first privatized utility - its underground Mass Transit Railway system.
28  Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, and the eager.
29  They did not hang Lady Jane Grey; they beheaded her. "Off with her head!" cried the Duchess, eager to decapitate poor Alice.
30  There were also 125 reporters, eager to witness the launch of New York police department's Operation Corral – an acronym for Computer Oriented Retrieval of Auto Larcenists.