pace anxiously
Frequency: 6.46.8 per million words
to walk back and forth across a small area, especially because you are nervous or worried
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Examples (20)
- He paced anxiously in the hospital waiting room.
- She began to pace anxiously while waiting for the test results.
- The expectant father was pacing anxiously up and down the corridor.
- He would often pace anxiously before important meetings.
- She paced anxiously before her big performance, wringing her hands.
- The mother paced anxiously outside the operating room.
- I found him pacing anxiously in his office, waiting for the important call.
- Why are you pacing anxiously up and down the hallway?
- While the jury deliberated, the defendant paced anxiously in a small cell.
- They were pacing anxiously as the deadline approached.
- "Where could she be?" he muttered, continuing to pace anxiously by the window.
- Don't just pace anxiously; try to stay calm.
- The general paced anxiously in his tent, awaiting news from the battlefield.
- He continued to pace anxiously, unable to sit still.
- Every time the phone rang, she would stop pacing anxiously and rush to answer it.
- I saw him pace anxiously near the entrance.
- He had been pacing anxiously for over an hour before the doctor finally came out.
- She started to pace anxiously when her flight was delayed.
- The mother lion paced anxiously around her lost cub's last known location.
- The lawyer paced anxiously in the courtroom, awaiting the verdict.