Definition of anxiously in English:
anxiously
adverb ˈaŋkʃəsliˈæŋkʃəsli
In a manner resulting from or revealing anxiety.
we are all waiting anxiously for any news
Example sentencesExamples
- He sits quietly, anxiously waiting for me to begin my questions.
- Workers waited anxiously for news about whether they would have to forgo their paychecks.
- These letters reveal the eager young composer fretting anxiously over arrangements.
- I am anxiously awaiting the release of the next volume.
- Meanwhile, he is wide awake, anxiously pacing about his garden.
- Anxiously searching for their own identity, adolescents wish to find their answer to the question, "Who am I?"
- A formless dread seems to be working anxiously within him.
- I had been anxiously awaiting this DVD for some time, based on TV spots I had seen.
- We are anxiously awaiting the results from your studies as we continue to conduct our own.
- Thereafter she always inquired anxiously about the health of her students.
Definition of anxiously in US English:
anxiously
adverbˈæŋkʃəsliˈaNGkSHəslē
In a manner resulting from or revealing anxiety.
they listened anxiously to the radio for more information
Example sentencesExamples
- Thereafter she always inquired anxiously about the health of her students.
- 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.
- These letters reveal the eager young composer fretting anxiously over arrangements.
- Meanwhile, he is wide awake, anxiously pacing about his garden.
- Anxiously searching for their own identity, adolescents wish to find their answer to the question, "Who am I?"
- I had been anxiously awaiting this DVD for some time, based on TV spots I had seen.
- Workers waited anxiously for news about whether they would have to forgo their paychecks.
- I am anxiously awaiting the release of the next volume.
- He sits quietly, anxiously waiting for me to begin my questions.