Definition: 1. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy. 2. Marked by active interest and enthusiasm.
Use 'eager' in a sentence:
1. They're eager to please.
2. The dogs were straining at the leash , eager to get to the park.
3. Kate was in a hurry to grow up, eager for knowledge and experience.
4. She's always very eager to please.
5. He was intensely eager, indeed avid, for wealth.
6. They are eager to help with conservation efforts.
7. Eager to hook into a career but can't find one right for you?
8. persuasion has stretched to her its eager arms in vain.
9. He stopped suddenly and looked curiously at her eager face.
10. She is eager for her parents' approval.
11. You're so eager to stay in the good graces of the King that nothing else matters to you.
12. He did not speak as if he was frightfully eager for the treat.
13. Mary touched it herself in an eager, reverent way.
14. He was eager to get into politics.
15. He is eager to weed out the many applicants he believes may be frauds.
16. He is eager to reach agreement with the U.S. on reducing long-range nuclear missiles.
17. When my own son was five years old, I became eager for another baby.
18. Neither Baker nor Levy seemed eager to disturb the cordial atmosphere by discussing more sensitive issues.
19. She came on every ride herself, the better to instruct her eager pupils.
20. Parliamentarians were eager to turn over responsibility for the decision.
21. Haig was desperately eager for an affirmative answer.
22. They are eager to boost their popularity.
23. Politicians are eager to promote their 'happy family' image to curry favour with voters.
24. They just haven't been to school before. They're so eager to learn, they lap it up.
25. Valentino is eager to see celebrities parading his clothes at big occasions.
26. He was eager to return to a more entrepreneurial role in which he had a big financial stake in his own efforts.
27. The White House is eager to protect and enhance that reputation.
28. He sounded both pitiful and eager to get what he wanted.
29. The dogs were straining at the leash, eager to get to the park.
30. Robert was eager to talk about life in the Army.
31. Detectives hunting the bombers will be eager to interview him.
32. Arty sneered at the crowd of eager faces around him.
33. I should let my eyes rest, too, on the face of a baby, so that I could catch a vision of the eager, innocent beauty which precedes the individual's consciousness of the conflicts which life develops.
34. The new religion was eager to convert the pagan world.
35. Heidi had said all this in one breath, she was so eager.
36. They were eager for a second bite of the cherry.
37. Companies are increasingly eager to contract out peripheral activities like training.
38. The pool was declared open and eager swimmers plunged in.
39. As soon as we arrived on the island we were eager to explore.
40. She sounded less and less eager to return to Ireland.
41. The other banks are going to be very eager to help, provided that they see that he has a specific plan.
42. Everyone in the class seemed eager to learn.
43. But Jules was not eager for classroom learning, he hungered for adventure.
44. He thus avoided a pack of journalists eager to question him.
45. He was eager to communicate his ideas to the group.
46. He was as eager as his Captain to beat the record.
47. The company is eager to gain a foothold in Europe.
