Sentence examples for anxious to fill from inspiring English sources

In this case you have a whole Arab region where political upheavals have produced a vacuum of power that extremists are anxious to fill.

First, Italians and Greeks came, many on assisted passages paid for by an Australian government anxious to fill out the sparse population.

The heat and humidity do strange things, not least of all to journalists and editors anxious to fill up a lot of vacant space.

Its curators seem anxious to fill the void with terms like "process" and "materiality" (which are less dated, if a bit clunky), and to invoke solemn topics like politics, gender, the body and memory.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee, anxious to fill the post of United States ambassador to the United Nations, approved the nomination of John D. Negroponte for the job today.

Toronto also sparked a frenzy of deals on movies that screened there without a distributor as movie buyers, anxious to fill slots in 2011 and gratified by the higher quality-to-volume ratio that has emerged from the recession, got their wallets out.

Anxious to meet Sam Patch, Gregg sought him out before the spectacle and filled him with many qualms about his jump.

"The structure was a very, very good one that I was excited and relieved by, so I'm very anxious to find someone to fill it," Mr. Wolfe said.

Fast-forwarding to a future filled with uncertainties and anxious moments as I try to fill in the blanks to the unknown story I'm creating in my head.

This is an actor we should be anxious to watch fill screens for many celebrated years to come.

Other people's vacations can make me anxious, too, because I often have to fill in when they're away.