How to use "eager" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "eager" in popular movie and book plots

  • Merlin arrives with her, but stays, eager to learn more about his father.  - The Courts of Chaos
  • Tenoch and Julio immediately turn away from each other and are eager to return home.  - Y Tu Mamá También
  • Buzz, the eager elevator operator, pitches a new invention: the flexi-straw.  - The Hudsucker Proxy
  • Dan is eager to listen to the record, but he's reminded by everyone that Anthony does not like singing.  - It's a Good Life (The Twilight Zone)
  • Petya (Pyotr Ilyich) at nine is the youngest; like his brother, he is impetuous and eager to join the army when of age.  - War and Peace
  • She is not eager to accept the deal, but cannot turn down the opportunity to regain her piano.  - The Piano
  • Since the Zentradi's exposure to culture and to Lynn Minmay's songs, some of them become eager to join the humans.  - The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
  • Thomas, even though he and Catherine have romantic feelings for each other, is especially eager to have Catherine marry Henry.  - The Six Wives of Henry VIII (BBC TV series)
  • The messenger, eager to ease Oedipus's mind, tells him not to worry, because Merope was not in fact his real mother.  - Oedipus Rex
  • Thisbe returns, eager to tell Pyramus what had happened to her, but she finds Pyramus' dead body under the shade of the mulberry tree.  - Pyramus and Thisbe
  • Princess Shalmar refuses to marry Jeff, even though Orville is eager to get out of the marriage.  - Road to Morocco
  • Keyes is eager to reject the claim and force Phyllis to sue.  - Double Indemnity (film)
  • Hank is confident they will make it big while Queenie is less eager to put everything on the line to become a star.  - The Broadway Melody
  • Anne is highly imaginative, eager to please and quite dramatic at times.  - Anne of Green Gables
  • Harvey is rounded up and questioned by a senior security officer, who is very eager to get his hands on Harvey's ring.  - Between Planets
  • The twins, each eager to meet the parent she never knew, switch places.  - The Parent Trap (1961 film)

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