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View synonyms for eagerly

eagerly

[ ee-ger-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a way that shows keen interest or fervent, often impatient desire or feeling:

    On my first visit, the receptionist eagerly gave me a tour of the facilities, enthusiastically pointing out all the state-of-the-art equipment.



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During the campaign, Emhoff was an indefatigable campaign surrogate, so eager to raise his hand to help that campaign staff often found themselves looking for more he could do, rather than pleading with him to add something to his schedule.

The veterans themselves are eager to have someone else to see.

Guidance offered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had no regulatory power and was sometimes disregarded by local and state governments eager to reopen.

Not least of which because it will be near-impossible to get one in the next month or so, making the possibility of unwrapping a PS5 a remote one for eager youths.

For marketplaces that find traction, investors are eager to fund them.

From Digiday

Up and down the plane I heard the slap of blinders yanked down over the windows while the rest of us eagerly took in the view.

For the past four years it is one of the books that I most eagerly await.

The rally had been eagerly attended, was sporadically enthusiastic, and left almost no impression once it was over.

I entered the metal gates to an open courtyard full of inmates eagerly waiting for their own visitors.

Ben H. Winters is out this July with the eagerly anticipated finale to his critically acclaimed The Last Policeman trilogy.

She ignored his very presence, though readily, eagerly forthcoming to the smallest sign from Tony.

By this time a large band of natives had collected, and were gazing eagerly on the proceedings.

As gave Tom no rest, but questioned him eagerly and continuously during the whole night about the things which concerned his soul.

She drew one from its envelope; it was dated December 22, just two years ago to-day; she ran through it eagerly.

Every book which fell in her way she eagerly perused, and treasured its knowledge or its literary beauties in her memory.

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