How to Use eager in a Sentence

eager

adjective
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  • The crowd was eager for more.
  • She was eager to get started.
  • Sorry, no one’s eager for the stuff in your brush in the U.S.
    — Jessica Chia, Allure, 16 Feb. 2018
  • For now, Van Slett said the staff is eager to help the cubs grow.
    — Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Mainieri is eager to see some of the tweaks Dunn has made.
    — Ron Higgins, NOLA.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • But the Time Cave team was eager to wrap up the mission.
    — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
  • Hill will head back to home in the South Bay, eager for a hot bath and a soft bed.
    — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Most of them seemed ready, if not quite eager, to move on.
    — Ian Volner, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The servers, all masked, were all super-eager to wait on me.
    — Polly Campbell, Cincinnati.com, 21 May 2020
  • For his part, Richardson seems eager to come back to the show.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 10 Apr. 2022
  • Ridge View kids, for their part, seem eager to see how the rest of the year unfolds.
    — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 2 Oct. 2022
  • That doesn’t mean the Warriors are eager to part with him.
    — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2023
  • Banks has been eager to make a third film for some time now.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Nov. 2022
  • This team is eager to get started and put all their hard work to the test.
    — Mark Heim | Mheim@al.com, al, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The Leo sun and North Node are eager to help expand your world.
    — USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2023
  • Trump has been eager to get back on the campaign trail for weeks.
    — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 12 June 2020
  • O’Connor said the team remains eager to fight for its spot.
    — Julia Poe, Pro Soccer USA, 17 Sep. 2019
  • Sycamore was eager to answer the Vikings' strong start.
    — J.l. Kirven, The Enquirer, 5 Sep. 2020
  • The White House has been eager to put Palestine on the back-burner.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Folks are ready and eager to make the most of the festivities.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
  • Many people are eager to help and just need to be asked.
    — Laurie Archbald-Pannone, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Here, and is also eager to head back to Vegas for the slate of new dates.
    — Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • The fifth-year manager was eager to see what the 27-year-old’s stuff would look like out of the bullpen.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Sep. 2023
  • And Weaver is eager to use Williams as a resource in the future as well.
    — Detroit Free Press, 20 June 2023
  • Many of those kids were very eager to return to school.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2021
  • He was spotted three runs by a Tigers team that seemed eager to hand over the game.
    — Kristie Ackert, Hartford Courant, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Abbott wasn’t as eager to discuss that side of the deal.
    — David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Many designers are eager to scrap the old and start fresh.
    — Doretta Sperduto, House Beautiful, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Johnson, for one, is eager to get going with the hunt for life.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Still, many groups are eager to see the dockless bikes come to Chicago.
    — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 16 Apr. 2018

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