How to use impatient in a sentence

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• I don't mean this as a slam, but you can be really impatient sometimes.From the entry slam
• She is impatient. She is mercurial. She is feisty. All that said, she is still lovable.From the entry all that said
• Jason is headstrong and impatient—like father, like son.From the entry like father, like son
• The airport was wall-to-wall with impatient passengers.From the entry wall-to-wall
• The store was working alive with impatient customers.From the entry working alive
• As a child I was often hungry and hunger made me impatient.2023, Nanda Milbreta, “How We Killed the Worms”, in Kommunalka Child, London: Austin Macauley Publishers, →ISBN, part I. From the entry baranka
• Astley's characters, said White, were 'flimsy' or 'repulsive', 'throw-offs' from an 'impatient ego'.2015, Karen Lamb, Thea Astley: Inventing Her Own Weather, page 137. From the entry throw-off
• Inwardly, Seven smiled, glad that the predictably irritable and impatient engineer had remerged from her cocoon.2006, Heather Jarman, Evolution, page 83. From the entry remerged
• He used to be impatient of poems about budding flowers and zephyrous breezes.2002, J. M. Coetzee, chapter 14, in Youth, Vintage, published 2003, page 117. From the entry zephyrous
• Impatient horniness — the stereotypically male variety — shapes the credo of the on-line girlzine Minx.2000, Benjamin DeMott, Killer woman blues. From the entry girlzine
• Now, are you beginning to understand why he gave you a "perhaps" impatient and "perhaps" downputting look?1997 October 13, D. Spencer Hines, “does "veronica" = "vera icon"?”, in soc.history.medieval (Usenet). From the entry downputting
• "Nyet," he said with an impatient wave, and walked into the cold night.1990 December 31, F. Coleman, “A Soviet Bombshell”, in Newsweek, volume 116, number 27, page 50. From the entry nyet
• As this ground on, Rex grew impatient — he wanted to talk Revolution.1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, Random House, page 230. From the entry xanthochroid
• Gordon was a man by nature ill-suited to be a schoolmaster: he was impatient and choleric.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter XVI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 62. From the entry choleric
• We must travel voiturier, which among many conveniences and suitablenesses has its plagues for an impatient spirit.1915, "Emma Darwin, a Century of Family Letters, 1792-1896", Henrietta Emma Darwin Litchfield, p. 239. From the entry adaptednesses
• Too impatient to unravel the tangled knot, he had cut it, and nothing could mend it now.1914 May, Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, “Cutting the Tangled Knot”, in Their Mutual Child [The Coming of Bill], New York, N.Y.: Boni and…. From the entry unravel
• The stuffing gets zapped in the microwave, but you get impatient and slap the turkey on straight out of the fridge.2014, Malcolm Bedell, Jillian Bedell, Eating In Maine: At Home, On the Town and On the Road, →ISBN. From the entry pablumish
• The merbrothers were suddenly impatient to leave.2012, Robin Pritchard, A History of Mermaids, →ISBN, page 198. From the entry merbrother
• Sophie hands an impatient child a stick of fairy floss and sees Grace walk by, pushing the baby in his stroller.2005, Liane Moriarty, The Last Anniversary, →ISBN, page 282. From the entry fairy floss
• Varney made an impatient, down-sweeping, loose-handed gesture.1991, Luke Short, First Campaign, →ISBN, page 16. From the entry loose-handed
• In the sky a blizzard of mighty snowdragons wheeled in impatient spirals, their white riders eager to join the fray.1991, Andrew Bill, The Well of Hope, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs.: Holland Studio Craft Ltd., →ISBN, page 1. From the entry snowdragon
• “Time will aid us too, impatient one.1983, Nigel Tranter, Lord of the Isles, Coronet Books, published 1994, →ISBN, page 222. From the entry shipmistress
• Then there are the weekenders who like the familiar sounds and become quickly impatient with the unfamiliar, newest releases.1976 August 28, Val Bernasconi, “The Trials and Tribulations of a Music Programmer”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 8. From the entry weekender
• Then she made an impatient gesture with her hand.1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html)…. From the entry phlebotomy
• His teeth dug grazingly into the terrier's withers; and, with an impatient toss, he flung the little beast to one side.1922, Albert Payson Terhune, Further Adventures of Lad. From the entry grazingly
• As half in the deep window embrazure, Lennon paused to watch her, the overhanging cliff ledges reverberated with an impatient call.1920, Robert Ames Bennet, Bloom of Cactus. From the entry embrazure
• His superiors became impatient and then protestant.1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Again in the Country”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The…. From the entry protestant
• The third was a man of action, a combatant, a bold and impatient executive, breathing fire and steel.1909, O. Henry, Roads of Destiny. From the entry man of action
• The youthful artist working in any medium is prone to be impatient of the prejudices of Anglo-Saxon pudency.1906, Elizabeth Bisland, chapter 2, in The Life and Letters of Lafcadio Hearn, volume I, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 62. From the entry pudency
• And later, Ross glaring into the camera, impatient with me, the Momarazzi—Enough with the pictures!—a string of pink taffy hanging out of his mouth.2017, Claudia Hunter Johnson, Hurtling Toward Happiness: A Mother and Teenage Son's Road Trip From Blues to Bonding in a Really Small Car…. From the entry momarazzi
• Many of us get impatient with the tedium of bottling after a year or two and start thinking about kegging our beers instead.2015, Randy Mosher, Mastering Homebrew, page 228. From the entry keg
• Keating . . . was an impatient taskmaster, but he was also a straight shooter who never held back a punch. . . .2008, David Michaels, Tom Clancy, Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, →ISBN, page 177. From the entry straight shooter
• Susan's impatient monosyllable startled Jori, slung in the halter on her chest, but he promptly went back to sleep after blowing a couple of bubbles.2005, Tango Wayne, Scandinal. From the entry runish
• A croquet peg and a baseball bat and a small lawnchair had become involved, while the lawnmower stood there, freshly primed and impatient.1994, Steve Noyes, Cities of India, page 38. From the entry leafstorm
• Here are prechipped, prescratched treasures -- medicine chests, porcelain dishes, canisters -- as if we are too impatient today to wear out our belongings ourselves.1994 March 6, Amy Spindler, “Seeing a City in the Windows of Its Shops”, in New York Times. From the entry prechipped
• There are the regulars who come five or six nights a week; they become bored or impatient with the same sounds night after night.1976 August 28, Val Bernasconi, “The Trials and Tribulations of a Music Programmer”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 9, page 8. From the entry weekender
• For if they are unable to resolve their differences by their own restraints and inventions, other and more impatient forces may provide brusquer machinery.1962 November 19, “Publishers’ Association of New York City, et al. and New York Mailers Union No. 6 International Typographical Union…. From the entry brusque
• His skin was grimed with dust, for he had ridden hard in scorching heat, and was anxious and impatient to get on.1918, Harold Bindloss, The Buccaneer Farmer. From the entry grime

Meaning of impatient

1. adjective Restless, short of temper, and intolerant of delays.
2. adjective Anxious and eager, especially to begin or have something.
3. adjective Not to be borne; unendurable.

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Questions about impatient in a sentence

How do you use impatient in a sentence?

Impatient is used as an adjective. For example: “She dances when she becomes impatient.”

What is a short sentence with impatient?

“impatient speeches or replies”

What does impatient mean?

Impatient means restless, short of temper, and intolerant of delays.