adverb
definition
In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
example
He anxiously awaited the arrival of his child.
Examples of anxiously in a Sentence
She watched anxiously as he read her temperature.
He watched anxiously as she dialed the number.
She stood and paced anxiously, hugging herself.
When the count came to see her she turned anxiously round at the sound of a man's footstep, and then her face resumed its cold and malevolent expression.
People were anxiously roaming about the streets.
She watched the dunes anxiously for Bordeaux.
Then she added, "He's anxiously waiting."
Carmen watched with Destiny while they waited anxiously for Alex.
Now I was the one to anxiously await contact.
Do not seek so anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.
Fred waved back to Mrs. Blanding, who was waiting anxiously for her favorite helper.
How best to utilize the fresh troops joining him from England was anxiously considered by Sir I.
She glanced around the room anxiously.
Natasha and Nicholas often noticed their parents conferring together anxiously and privately and heard suggestions of selling the fine ancestral Rostov house and estate near Moscow.
Like his horse, which turned its head and laid its ears back, he shrank from the driving rain and gazed anxiously before him.
She was anxiously administered to by several white coated escorts.
She met his gaze anxiously and shook her head slowly.
She shuddered, glancing anxiously at the canopy of branches overhead.
He was anxiously sensitive about the opinion of others, eager for their sympathy and regard, and, in general, impressionable to their influence.
For anything like personal immortality the medieval Schoolmen searched him anxiously but in vain.
As he looked anxiously out for the pierheads at Ostend, breakers suddenly loomed up on the starboard bow, and before the ship could turn she was ashore.
Some eight or nine young men were crowding anxiously round an open window.
And Pierre, anxiously trying to remember whether he had done anything reprehensible, looked round with a blush.
Katie tossed her coat at the rack and watched anxiously as the pole danced around the concrete floor before settling down.
Fred was anxiously glancing between her bedroom and the front door where he was expecting the arrival of Bird Song's latest domestic helper candidate.
He motioned her in, and she approached somewhat anxiously.
Carmen withdrew her hand from his and watched anxiously as Alex walked out the door.
Fans are anxiously awaiting this season's show.
She turned and studied his stoic profile anxiously.
No fighting, she recited anxiously.
Alex must have had the same thought as he watched it anxiously.
Entering the terminal, she glanced around anxiously.
She opened her eyes to find Alex watching her anxiously.
Fans are anxiously awaiting the release of their first single, "True Blue".
Darkyn's mate called anxiously.
Warm fingers clutched Carmen's hand and she looked down to find Jonathan watching her anxiously.
Carmen caught her breath and put a hand to her mouth anxiously, but the foal scrambled up from the ground and shook herself.
Jonathan put his small hand in the crook of Alex's arm and looked up at him anxiously.
I listened anxiously to the thrum of the engine as we labored into the cloud.
Although it has only been a short while since the original Palm Pre was released, many enthusiasts are anxiously awaiting the release of the next Palm Pre or its suitable successor.
But he who anxiously contending with his own infirmity has recourse to faith, is already in a great measure victorious.
He had been beleaguered there since the previous November, suffering the most terrible privations and we had been anxiously awaiting news.
Powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, stood at every door anxiously noting visitors' every movement in order to offer their services.
Alex straightened the feeding tube across her shoulder and watched anxiously as Matthew mouthed the nipple and feeding tube.
In the meanwhile all parties looked anxiously to the convention of Ocana, which was to assemble in March 1828, for a decided expression of the national will.
Even before the first device has worn out its welcome, countless enthusiasts are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the second generation iPhone.
I have been anxiously awaiting the next couple of parts.
A few anxiously awaited titles have had their release dates shifted back.
Gamers are anxiously awaiting a few new offerings in the RPG arena.
One minute, you're anxiously awaiting your new arrival.