Sentence examples for eager like from inspiring English sources

Thanks to the club's recent push to attract and train new caddies, there were plenty on hand that morning, green but eager, like colts aching to gambol across an open pasture.

Surveys and opinion polls, including a recent one by Gallup, repeatedly reveal the average European Muslim to be poor, socially conservative, unhappy about discrimination, but generally content, hopeful about their children - who attend non-religious schools - and eager, like their non-Muslim peers, to get on with their lives.

They add up to a very usable, unfinicky, high-output four-cylinder engine, happy in its work and eager like a puppy.

"One who seeks the true causes of miracles, and is eager, like an educated man, to understand natural things, not to wonder at them, like a fool, is generally considered and denounced as an impious heretic by those whom the people honor as interpreters of nature and the Gods.

The image I try to hold in mind is the Nuremberg rallies: A multitude swept up in patriotic psychosis, eager like lemmings to throw themselves over a cliff.

I immediately look at Nick to see if he shares my concern over the ambiguous "plant medicine" but he looks overly eager like a heroin junkie who just found out his dealer would meet him on the street corner in 5.

And she fantasized about "a joyful coming together," she said, of eager, like-minded helpers.

Gosling subtly allows Dean's eager, child-like charisma to become, if not soured, then shopworn, played-out.

That means there has been little progress on issues the party establishment believes are critical to a revival, like an immigration overhaul, or something conservative intellectuals are more eager for, like a populist-oriented economic approach.

He was a goofy kid, eager to be liked, not remotely tough.

I was just eager to be liked and get the job.