How to Use impatience in a Sentence

impatience

noun

• This time, the impatience was evident on both sides of the aisle.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• But for council members, there still is some impatience.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2020
• The most encouraging thing about Tucker is his impatience.
  — Jeff Seidel, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2020
• The young Joan—with her gift for painting, her passion for dancing, her bristling impatience with school rules, and her wanderlust—was more like a changeling.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2020
• Yet even more so than during the nation’s spring and summer waves, officials are battling widespread fatigue and impatience.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2020
• Children are feeling frustrated and need compassion rather than judgment, criticism and impatience from the adults in their lives.
  — Erica Komisar, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2020
• Trudeau, while acknowledging the impatience, has tried to offer assurances.
  — Ian Austen, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Feb. 2021
• In his later years, Vaclav Havel counseled freedom’s friends against impatience.
  — Madeleine K. Albright, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2021
• That could present a problem for the city, since Africk has expressed impatience with the pace of planning and design and repeatedly asked city lawyers for updates.
  — Matt Sledge, NOLA.com, 26 Jan. 2021
• Needless to say, fans were majorly disappointed over the news, taking to Twitter to express their impatience for the next episode.
  — Hannah Jeon, Good Housekeeping, 27 Nov. 2020
• Such vignettes embody both resignation and blazing impatience.
  — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
• Other violations of protocols and flight plans were legendary, just like his impatience with engineering analyses that delayed test flight schedules.
  — Andy Pasztor, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Capricorn moon riles up impatience around just deserves.
  — USA TODAY, 23 June 2024

Last Updated: 20 Sep 2024