How to Use impatience in a Sentence

impatience

noun

• As the moon and Mars clash, don’t let impatience get the better of you!
  — USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
• Some of the locals have their hands on their hips, a sign of impatience.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021
• His impatience got the best of him as coaches had to hold him back.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 24 Sep. 2022
• This is the part where my impatience usually gets the best of me.
  — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
• Her Sydney is wise enough to keep her eyes on the prize, but a streak of impatience doesn’t help her in the long run.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
• This time, the impatience was evident on both sides of the aisle.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• That gave him a great sense of impatience and darkness.
  — Vernon Scott, Good Housekeeping, 23 Oct. 2022
• Gordy could have both the patience of Job and the impatience of an emperor.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
• In response, Jackson sighed, in one of her few signs of impatience in a long day.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022
• But Cramer was able to crystalize the market’s impatience with Chapek and helped frame the issue for the board, the source said.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• Can’t say many aren’t deserved, but most pink slips are sewn with threads of impatience.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
• But that was the first time the rest of us perhaps realized his impatience.
  — Graham Couch, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021
• Still, the first of his big plays Saturday came in part as a result of his own impatience.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Sep. 2022
• That sometimes was a source of impatience for those queuing up for their turn.
  — oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2020
• But some of his allies were open about their impatience.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
• The White House's impatience is fueled by the specter of losing the ability to achieve its goals for the balance of Biden's term.
  — John Harwood, CNN, 13 Oct. 2021
• The series teaches, in more ways than one, that impatience can also be a virtue.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• President Trump has long telegraphed his impatience with the war and desire to bring the.
  — Jessica Donati, WSJ, 28 Feb. 2020
• There was no furrow in his brow, no impatience in his demeanor.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
• Lack of time can be a hindrance, but impatience can be an obstacle in its own right.
  — Tyler Gallagher, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2021
• So the details of the upgrades that will be needed will be very sensitive to the impatience of EV drivers.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2024
• City Hall, in turn, has expressed impatience that the program has rolled out slowly.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024
• The waiter tended to them with cheer, didn’t show impatience at Lea’s Italian.
  — Ayşegül Savaş, The New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2022
• Cars, crowds, the threat of the coronavirus and raw impatience seemed everywhere.
  — David Montgomery, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020
• The impatience was barely suppressed at the summit, by him and others.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 16 June 2023
• At the same time, his hunger for learning was often twinned with impatience and an inability to stick to a task and see it through.
  — Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2020
• This is a great episode for Carol, of course, whose impatience and irritation with these dummies gets the best of her a few times.
  — Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 28 May 2021
• That would leave the Browns in quite a pickle — one that is solely a product of Haslam’s greed, impatience, and self-indulgence.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
• For some people, impatience can lead to ignoring red flags in new partners.
  — Kelle Salle, refinery29.com, 12 Apr. 2024
• And then, of course, there were broader economic concerns fueled by a worse-than-expected unemployment figure and impatience for the US Federal Reserve to cut rates; in the past, recession fears have led key tech customers to pull back on spending.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024