Sentence examples for like anxious from inspiring English sources
Their respective bosses watched them like anxious parents.
(Mother plants line the sides of the tunnel like anxious onlookers).
His physical stature means he's unmistakable; when they see him coming, games inventors hover nervously near their creations like anxious parents at the touchline.
Pale and rangy, with wide-set blue eyes and stiff-shouldered, loping gaits, they sometimes seem like anxious 5-year-olds trapped in elongated bodies.
Backed by a three-piece band, he is a diminutive and intense showman who ranges through a set of powerful songs sounding like anxious inner monologues externalised.
Londoners tend to talk glancingly, but these two brothers, like anxious New Yorkers, spell everything out, argue over every point — the same scene seems to be playing over and over in different locations.
"A few weeks ago, the faces of these children were hard; they had closed fists and adult-like, anxious faces," says Zaida, a UNICEF community volunteer.
To me, all the coughs sounded exactly the same, but I'd play along—"Raspy, yes"—like an anxious impostor at a wine tasting.
I can't work it out myself and it's making me like, mega anxious.
Ms. Chang's specialty is a hapless, wronged look, while Ms. Nordman likes the anxious smile of a flight attendant in training.
Consistent with the trait-like qualities of anxious temperament, results demonstrated that this composite measure was stable (r 33) = .533, p<.001) (Fig. 2).
