How to Use eager in a Sentence

eager

adjective

• The crowd was eager for more.
• She was eager to get started.
• Some biologists were eager to begin reintroduction efforts, but this required looking to places where lynx had not yet disappeared.
  — Emily Soreghan, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• But Murphy has been eager to praise Kelce’s work on set.
  — Angela Yang, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
• Following her father’s death, Bobbie (McEntire) is reopening the doors, eager to step into her new position as owner.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024