Synonyms for anxiously
anx·ious·ly

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1. anxiously, uneasily, apprehensivelyadverb

   with anxiety or apprehension

   "we watched anxiously"

   Synonyms:
   uneasily, apprehensively

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1. List of paraphrases for "anxiously":

   eagerly, impatiently

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How to say anxiously in sign language?

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How to use anxiously in a sentence?

1. Paul Roos:

   He was wearing all black. His face was not masked ... We ducked behind a counter but I stood up and watched him. Two explosions went off shortly after one another. By that time he had stopped shooting, he turned around and started coming towards us. He was holding his gun inside his jacket. He looked around anxiously to see if anyone was going to stop him and then went down the escalator ... We heard some more gunfire and then another explosion, and then it was over.

2. A. A. Milne:

   How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.

3. Eric Trump:

   The job retention plan created by the UK Government has nothing to do with the Trump Organization and does not benefit the business — it is solely about protecting people and their families who would otherwise be out of work. We are anxiously awaiting the day that we receive approval from the government to reopen our doors and look forward to getting back to business.

4. Lori Glaze:

   I want to stress that NASA remains fully committed to scientific discovery and exploration of small bodies, this is exemplified by our existing missions OSIRIS-REx, Lucy and DART. We are anxiously anticipating the review of Psyche tests to better understand what that path forward will look like.

5. Vladimir Putin:

   We'd anxiously await mother to cook us a meal, which Jeb Bush never did, if you call pouring a little Hormel out of the box into a boiling pot of water cooking, then Jeb Bush did cook.