How to Use eager in a Sentence

eager

adjective
  • The crowd was eager for more.
  • She was eager to get started.
  • Beringer seems eager to do both.
    — Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The firm seems eager for a chance to stand out.
    — Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Now, fans are eager to find out what comes next.
    — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026
  • Rishi Sunak seemed eager to be gone.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • Still, Legge is eager to get back to town.
    — Michael Marot, Twin Cities, 23 May 2026
  • Clearly, the group was eager to turn the page.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Kavon likes going to school and is eager to learn new things.
    — Mare Staff, Boston Herald, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Sounds like the stars were eager to get to the red carpet.
    — Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Many kids were eager to learn the legacy.
    — Alysia Burgio, CBS News, 13 May 2026
  • Calagione is eager to make new fans, too.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Dedra's peers were eager to lay all of the blame at her feet.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 15 May 2025
  • Trump has been eager to get back on the campaign trail for weeks.
    — W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner, 12 June 2020
  • Ramseur’s eager to spread the word about the project.
    — Charlotte Observer, 4 June 2026
  • Sabres fans have been eager to give this team that type of response.
    — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Readers eager to get their hands on this one will need to sit tight.
    — Hanna Wickes, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Renard was eager to take that job.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 25 June 2026
  • Such had been eager from the outset.
    — Michael Osipoff, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
  • This team is eager to get started and put all their hard work to the test.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The women were eager to oblige.
    — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Yet not all the Shia militias have been eager to join the fight.
    — Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026
  • Sumrall is eager to see how his players build on it.
    — Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2026
  • For his part, Richardson seems eager to come back to the show.
    — Selome Hailu, Variety, 10 Apr. 2022
  • No wonder people are so eager to talk about it.
    — Kyley Sitton, Washington Post, 18 June 2026
  • Bigelow was eager to take away some of those stresses and worries.
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Johnson, for one, is eager to get going with the hunt for life.
    — Paul Voosen, Science | AAAS, 23 Mar. 2018
  • Aytaç, for so long eager to welcome me, now chased me away.
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Columbus has the most cap room in the league and is eager to add this summer.
    — Pierre Lebrun, New York Times, 21 June 2025
  • She's been eager to show off her baby to the rest of the household.
    — Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Aug. 2025

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