How to use impatience in a sentence

More sentences with impatience

• I left because she gave off a sense of impatience with me.From the entry give off
• He then departed to wait, with impatience, for the next day, and the promised appointment.2015, John Walker, John Aubrey, Letters Written by Eminent Persons in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, →ISBN. From the entry promised
• Tobacco-settlement bonds are a tribute both to the inventiveness of bankers and the childlike impatience of politicians.2013 September 7, “Unlucky strike”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8852, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2020. From the entry tobacco
• A phrase, then, of impatience, thud of Blake’s wings of excess.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 2: Nestor]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part I [Telemachia], page 24. From the entry fable
• I feel the impatience in her voice, the desire to sell all her stuff asap and return home.2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 17. From the entry asap
• Centroverts tend less to the recklessness, distraction or impatience seen in extroverts when they are bored or forced to be inactive.2015 April 23, Sylvia Loehken, The Power of Personality: How Introverts and Extroverts Can Combine to Amazing Effect, John Murray Press…. From the entry centrovert
• Impatience . . . is chronic in the mass media.2009 March 19, Joe Klein, “Don't Panic — At Least Not Yet”, in Time. From the entry come with the territory
• But I'm likely to show my impatience with a college student who doesn't know the difference between fact and opinion.1991 November 17, William Raspberry, “WHEN STUDENTS ASK FOR HELP”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company…. From the entry junior high schooler
• As though life was grimless of impatience.1989, Agustin T. Misola, Natela: The Russian Girl I Love, page 82. From the entry grimless
• Trump’s campaign of retribution began to intensify in mid-July after an adviser stoked his snarling impatience over the slow pace of Justice Department investigations.2025 September 27, “Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry snarling
• Some gaumed up their whole lives by a-hasteing in this or that thing, taking out their impatience on this or the other body.2011, Caroline Miller, Lamb in His Bosom, →ISBN, page 206. From the entry gaum
• All except little Johnny, who fussed and fidgeted with a typical three-year-old's impatience at such things, mindless of his mother's quiet shushings.2011, Janet Dailey, American Dreams, page 143. From the entry shushing
• Impatience with the intellectual slowness of others, narcissism and passion for one's mission in life might combine to make such individuals isolative and difficult.2003 April 30, Hazel Muir, “Einstein and Newton showed signs of autism”, in New Scientist, retrieved 15 Nov 2012. From the entry slowness
• There's impatience too: He writes that Morrison "expired, bloated and burnt out, in a bathtub in Paris at 27, not a moment too soon.1991, “Top Spin”, in SPIN, June, vol 7 number 3 edition, page 10. From the entry not a moment too soon
• Our impatience with the Parisians is symbolized by the dining room here at the Hotel Raphael, where they have footrests under the dining room tables.1960, The Hollywood Reporter, volume 160, Los Angeles, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 2. From the entry brunchless
• We may picture Vesal's impatience waiting the end of these divagating sessions, the final cautions against mistaking a julep for an apozene!1944, The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine, page 122. From the entry apozene
• His frequent remarks to her father, his renewal at intervals of his cup of English breakfast and cream, caused Sophie spasms of impatience.1910 September, Georgia Fraser, chapter VIII, in Crow-Step, New York, N.Y.: Witter and Kintner, →OCLC, page 104. From the entry English breakfast
• “We provide a useful service by helping the ruling party govern the country,” he said, adding with impatience, “Why does a party always have to be seeking political power?”2013 March 12, Andrew Jacobs, Patrick Zuo, Shi Da, quoting Zhou Zhongxiao, “Non-Communist Parties Lend China an Air of Pluralism, Without…. From the entry ruling
• As moldy drywall thudded to the curb in a depressing drumbeat throughout Breezy Point, Queens, Thomas Ryan’s reciprocating saw stood out like a growling declaration of impatience.2012 December 21, David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli, Sarah Maslin Nir, “On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild…. From the entry drywall
• Hands trembling with excitement and impatience, I faxxed my credit history to Jerry Raskin, the real estate agent listed, and received an appointment to view the place.1990, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, volume 14, page 82. From the entry fax
• I peered at his rather featureless face through the moony twilight; and then he suddenly rose and paced the path with the impatience of a schoolboy.c. 1915, G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown's Solution. From the entry moony
• Or, as the impatience becomes greater, "That's four cylinders; but didn't that two-cylinder go almost as well?" and we can have the two-cylinder car right now.1910, Edwin Balmer, The Science of Advertising. From the entry discriminately
• Stringham, the elder of the companions, who had her own view of the impatiences of the younger, to which, however, she offered an opposition but of the most circuitous.1902, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove. From the entry impatiences

Meaning of impatience

1. noun The quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.

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Questions about impatience in a sentence

How do you use impatience in a sentence?

Impatience is used as a noun. For example: “I left because she gave off a sense of impatience with me.”

What is a short sentence with impatience?

“As though life was grimless of impatience.”

What does impatience mean?

Impatience means the quality of being impatient; lacking patience; restlessness and intolerance of delays; anxiety and eagerness, especially to begin something.