6 sentences with 'eagerly'
Example sentences and phrases with the word eagerly and other words derived from it.
• « Rome's internal political problems were in some ways of its own making: the Praetorian Guard auctioned off the throne, would-be emperors eagerly assassinated their rivals, and Roman elites largely retreated to their huge estates to profit from their serfs. »
• « Although the Ottoman Empire itself was a proudly "Western" civilisation, eagerly building on the prosperity of Byzantium after absorbing it, there is a (mistaken) legacy of centuries of differentiation between the Byzantine-Ottoman culture of the East and the medieval Roman-European culture of the West. »
• « To his delight, World War I broke out while he was already in Germany; Hitler eagerly volunteered for the German army and served on the western front, surviving both a poison gas attack and shrapnel from an exploding shell. »
• « From the Battle of Britain onwards, while priority was given to military targets, German bombers also deliberately sought civilian targets, and when the war began to turn against Germany, the Allies eagerly returned the favour by raining bombs on German cities. »
• « When it reaches the water, the camel begins to drink eagerly, being able to drink more than a third of its body weight. »
• « Virginia landowners, in particular, eagerly sought to diversify their holdings beyond tobacco, the price of which had stagnated and depleted the fertility of land along the Chesapeake Bay. »