How to Use lose patience in a Sentence

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• Most either have failed or, slow to blossom, have watched the Bruins lose patience and ship them out.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2021
• Questions are being raised as to how long Beijing can keep the policy on the road as citizens lose patience.
  — Tara John, CNN, 29 June 2022
• If money doesn’t continue to flow faster and faster, some landlords might lose patience and choose to evict tenants instead.
  — Graison Dangor, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• These moments, however, don’t last long and many investors lose patience waiting for them.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• Now some lenders are starting to lose patience, brokers and investors say, which could lead to an increase in foreclosures and distressed-property sales in the first half of 2021.
  — Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2021
• Some OEMs are starting to lose patience with this behavior from dealerships.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2022
• The longer the outbreak wears on, the more people lose patience with mask mandates, restrictions on businesses and other rules designed to protect public health.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• Eventually, Morris would lose patience and order them off his mound.
  — Scott Miller, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• The book’s conclusion—that if something is not done, citizens may lose patience—leaves the reader entirely in the dark about what, if anything, could address these problems.
  — Michael Reid, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• Lower-income homeowners and renters, on the other hand, could struggle to keep a roof over their heads in the new year as eviction moratoriums expire and lenders and landlords lose patience.
  — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• The delay increases the risk that some governments will lose patience with the process and press ahead with their own national taxes on the big U.S.-based technology companies that are the prime targets of the effort.
  — Paul Hannon, WSJ, 11 July 2022
• With no way to help behavioral health patients -- sometimes the same individuals over and over again -- first responders can start to lose patience, Riley said, and that only compounds the problem.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2021
• The remote workers, including the company’s chief executive, started to lose patience as people in the room talked over one another and made side comments.
  — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• As the public and the government lose patience with vaccine-hesitant groups and increase pressure on them to get the shot, the questions surrounding religious exemptions will almost certainly grow.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2021
• Danske, which has lived with eight years of negative rates in its home market of Denmark, is under growing political pressure to improve its business as the regulator and parliament lose patience with the string of scandals.
  — Frances Schwartzkopff, Bloomberg.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• Macron calculated, rightly, that the French eventually lose patience with extended strikes and unrest.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
• Global Entry membership fees refunded Waiting in line at the security gate can make any traveler lose patience, especially during a busy travel season.
  — Ivana Pino, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 5 Dec 2024