Sentence examples for not only eager from inspiring English sources

Oswald was not only eager to start over.

From then on she has a mecha who is not only eager to please but also needy in ways that Monica may not be able, or willing, to satisfy.

Its songs are not only eager to address the ills of everyone from hapless lovers to victims of nuclear attack but also to sum up American (and Jamaican) party music from the swing era onward.

Interstellar pops out of the wormhole midweek in China, not only eager to reinforce Christopher Nolan's international push, but also – as one of the country's annual quota of 14 Imax/3D releases – top up this week's $20.9m Imax takings (a November record).

These are girls who are not only eager to be sexy for millions of people, but who are willing to be ugly in front of them too.

As international spread of SARS through airline travel became a possibility, ATA was not only eager to provide information necessary for tracking passengers, but also served as a sounding board for specific guidelines for the traveler, flight crew, cargo handlers, and cleaning crew, and for the management of ill passengers.

Regret and longing for deals that go poof can create heartburn not only for eager buyers, but also for their brokers.

In the 1790s, the French Revolution thrilled not only secularists eager to see the spread of the rights of man but also many devout Protestants who sympathized with its attacks on the Catholic order and believed that it signaled the opening of seals, the sounding of trumpets and the final assault upon the Whore of Babylon (as Rome was exuberantly known).

The new villages not only were eager to participate, they became determined to field the best teams possible.

Taste was purposefully being violated, perhaps, but a reckless theatricality - not only unashamed, but eager to speak its name - was also being gleefully pursued.

I find it interesting — if illogical — that the Republicans most bent on cutting federal spending seem not only willing but eager to vastly increase the cost of securing our southern border.