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How to use the word anxious in a Sentence?

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Cars pull up to our hospital covered in bullet holes, these women are anxious, stressed and many are in advanced labor.

Mohamed Fath Alrahman

Found on New York Times
11 months ago

Social media companies have stumbled onto a stubborn, devastating fact, the way to get kids to linger on the platforms and to maximize profit is to upset them — to make them outraged, to make them agitated, to make them scared, to make them vulnerable, to make them feel helpless, anxious [and] despondent.

Brian Schatz

Found on CNN
12 months ago

I know a lot of people are anxious to get back to a prior level … you’ve just got to be patient.

Pam Bloomer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can be anxious, sensitive, kind, and wear your heart on your sleeve, you can be a mother or not, you can be an ex-Mormon or not, you can be a nerd, a crier, a hugger – you can be all of these things, and not only can you be here ; you can lead. Just like me.

Jacinda Ardern

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was so anxious about someone seeing something and giving a child post traumatic stress disorder, I handed my resignation.

Nada Pantle

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If they begin to feel anxious (and) tremulous on one cup of coffee, then they are a slow metabolizer, but if they have a higher tolerance then they are metabolizing coffee more rapidly.

Peter Kistler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re anxious to have greater supply to study it in broader populations.

William Dahut

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When I actually started looking into CTE – all of the work that they’ve done with the footballers in America, she had every single symptom and more, it was quite obvious to me that there was a definite link in her starting to get into dark places and feeling bad and anxious and not sleeping properly. All of those symptoms … Every one that’s involved in CTE was part of Ellie’s life.

Tony Soutter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Nikki and Tim have a lot of friends all across the state and for very good reasons. Nikki was an absolutely fantastic governor. Tim is an absolutely outstanding senator. And I think a lot of folks in South Carolina are anxious to see what either or both of them decide with regard to a presidential decision.

Wes Climer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He was anxious about how it would behave, the wing could pivot back [to the traditional] 90 degrees to the fuselage to be able to land, and he found out that you’d have to do a very gentle, slow descent, but you’d get what you needed and it would be okay.

Christian Gelzer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With that pilot program, it is so important that particularly a young person who’s feeling alone, who’s feeling isolated, is able to connect to somebody that they feel can share their experience and that comes from a similar place of understanding, i’m very anxious to see what the data shows when the pilot ends in March, but I feel very encouraged by my conversations with the Trevor Project and others involved in this.

Hannah Wesolowski

Found on CNN
1 year ago

She has made multiple staffers cry and people are generally so anxious to even staff her because if ANYTHING goes wrong she flips out on whatever staffer is present, she just talks to staffers however she wants.

Sasha Georgiades

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Your brain and your immune system are very tightly interconnected, studies have shown when you're depressed or anxious, your immune system doesn't work as well against targets like viruses and bacteria.

Angela Roberts

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is some evidence that 4-7-8 breathing helps reduce anxious, depressive and insomniac symptoms when comparing pre - and post-intervention, however, there are no large randomized control trials specifically on 4-7-8 breathing to my knowledge, the research on( the effect of) diaphragmatic breathing on these symptoms in general is spotty, with no clear connection due to the poor quality of the studies.

Joshua Tal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When kids are anxious, they tend to prefer predictability, familiarity and repetition, and they don't like uncertainty, unpredictability and change. Those last three words are a big part of living through the pandemic.

Eli Lebowitz

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We're hearing more and more that shippers and the railroads are getting anxious.

John Drake

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Early on, you get the ones who really want it and then after that there are people who aren't so anxious perhaps to get it that might still be at higher risk. So, it is sort of this fluctuation in supply and demand, now that we've had more of the doses available -- and again, with the five doses per vial -- it stretches out how many people can be served with each vial.

Philip Huang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It helps veterans because it’s entirely based on trust, a lot of veterans come at [equine therapy] from a distrustful place, and you’re never going to fool a horse. Whether you’re feeling anxious or fearful, they’re going to know.

Maddie Feaster

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There was literally no new underwear to give to these people, it's a sign of dignity for anyone who has lost everything... to have underwear makes you feel better, and it makes you feel a little normal. So we were anxious to help out.

Amy Weiss

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We recognize parents are anxious to have their young children vaccinated against COVID-19, and while the FDA cannot predict how long its evaluation of the data and information will take, we will review any EUA request we receive as quickly as possible using a science-based approach.

The FDA

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We know that many parents and caregivers and health care providers are anxious to have Covid vaccines available for this age group, i do want to reassure the committee and the public that we understand this concern, and we want to have available safe and effective vaccines for all age groups who will benefit from them.

Doran Fink

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I can remember so intimately all that went on, you’re always so anxious when these movies come out because of those first opinions; you hope it will go well, and it’s not in your control. But by far the greatest treasure is the test of time. When people are looking at what you did 50 years later, that’s an award in and of itself.

Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I was so anxious and excited for her because she just had the most terrible year, forsomeone to show up and to teach her that people do show up for you, it's just been beyond a blessing. Just the power of God and how he makes these situations happen has just been unbelievable and remarkable.

Holly Soape

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

( We) were told,' You get the vaccine. You get the vaccine and you get back to normal, and... we haven't gotten back to normal.... People are killing themselves. They're anxious. They are depressed. They are lonely. That is why we need to end it, more than any inconvenience that it's been to the rest of us.

Bari Weiss

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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