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Anxious in sentence

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Little wonder, then, that wealthier Chinese residents are anxious.
So, with winter coming on, COVID-19 cases reaching all-time highs, and the White House having given up on controlling the pandemic, anxious Americans are left speculating not only about who will win the election, but, for the first time in history, whether the president will honor the result and if the Supreme Court will abet him in subverting it.
But, because his government failed to anticipate the exodus, it had jeopardized the lives of those it was anxious to save.
First, there is the COVID-19 pandemic, which makes us anxious because we, or people we love, anywhere in the world, might soon become gravely ill and even die.
It is right to face up to that threat, and to be anxious.
At a time when new tariffs are already placing a significant drag on global growth, the last thing we need is for the WTO’s digital moratorium to lapse, opening up a vast new front for protectionists and anxious politicians to exploit.
What are your particular sins?' he continued without the slightest pause, as if anxious not to waste time.
A similar expression of pleasure replaced the former anxious look on Golenishchev's face.
Not a day passed without Kostya's thinking and being anxious about you.'
Levin offered to replace her, but having once heard Levin giving the lesson and noticing that he was not doing it the same way as the master who had coached the boy in Moscow, she – though embarrassed and anxious not to offend Levin – told him resolutely that the text-book must be followed in the master's way and that she would rather give the lessons herself.
At first she thought of the children, about whom, though the Princess and especially Kitty (she had greater faith in Kitty) had promised to look after them, she still felt anxious.
And what on earth am I to say to them?'As he entered the first drawing-room he met in the doorway the Countess Bol, who with an anxious and stern expression was giving orders to a servant.
There was not one angry or anxious face among them.
I would go home at once, but I am anxious about Yashvin and want to stay here till he has finished.'
And a boy!Don't be anxious,' Levin heard Mary Vlasevna say, as she slapped the baby's back with a shaking hand.
But Maheu, who was getting calm, and had at last become anxious, did not interfere.
The man again had his arm round the girl's waist, and was squeezing her, with an air of gratitude, still speaking in her neck; and it was she who seemed in a hurry, anxious to return quickly, and annoyed at the delay.
Négrel, the engineer, did not hurry in the face of this panic, and allowed the offers to fall to the lowest possible figures, while Dansaert, anxious to push matters still further, lied with regard to the quality of the workings.
She was trying, therefore, to put a good face on it, though with an anxious heart, as a housekeeper who was asking herself how she could make both ends meet now that the best part of her purse was going.
The young man accepted at once, anxious to live in the settlement with the idea of being nearer to his mates.
All tumbled down and hastened, carried away by an impulse of anxious fraternity.
One might say that it was the affectionate pity of an old philosopher anxious to console a young friend by imparting to him his own resignation and patience; for Trompette did not become reconciled, drawing his trains without any taste for the work, standing with lowered head blinded by the darkness, and for ever regretting the sun.
"Besides," she added, when the maid had gone out, "you know that I am anxious to receive these good people.
At eleven o'clock the Grégoires arrived, and were astonished when Hippolyte, the footman, who was placed as sentinel, hustled them in after an anxious glance at the two ends of the road.
The men, to avoid going to the public-house, slept all day long; the women while dividing the coffee became reasonable, less anxious to gossip and quarrel; and even the troops of children seemed to understand it all, and were so good that they ran about with naked feet, smacking each other silently.
With rounded back he moved quickly on, a fat meek man, anxious to live at peace with everybody.
He quickly dressed himself, his mind quite clear now, and very anxious.
" He was feeling anxious, however, being still too calm to yield to this outburst of anger.
Madame Hennebeau, who was very pale and felt angry with these people who had spoilt her pleasure, stood in the background with a sidelong look of repugnance; while Lucie and Jeanne, though trembling, had placed their eyes at a crack, anxious to lose nothing of the spectacle.
"I don't wish to be hard on them, I can even excuse them; one must be as foolish as they are to believe that we are anxious to injure them.
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