How to use patiently in a sentence

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• They explained patiently but firmly that he wasn't to play with his ding-a-ling nor try to show it to anyone.From the entry ding-a-ling
• Here's the section women have been patiently waiting for after trudging through a swamp of quasisexist discussion.2015, Al Bruno, Crossed Out: Our Lives without Christ. From the entry quasisexist
• She waited patiently as the group members tried to outfumble one another in paying for the drinks.2014, Gary B. Boyd, Death Of A Gene, page 134. From the entry outfumble
• Philomena passed another line of shabby soldiers waiting patiently at a soup kitchen.2009, Nick Stafford, Armistice, London: Quercus, →ISBN. From the entry armistice
• I waited patiently for her to stop hugging the berm to keep distance from fast moving traffic.2006, Jeanne Elizabeth Siphron, Fit to be crazy: living with lithium and manic depression, →ISBN. From the entry hell-bent for leather
• Then comes Comet's true forte: starry-eyed, slowcore webs of patiently brushed cymbals and madly reverberated guitar.2005 August 12, Michael Chamy, “Comet's Feathers From the Wing EP Review”, in The Austin Chronicle, volume 24, number 50, page 61. From the entry wombadelia
• Etta smiled, remembering Cal Albatross back then, patiently helping the webfoots perfect their diving and swimming skills.2004, Beth Yockey, Ross Yockey, Strictly for the Birds, page 7. From the entry webfoot
• Becky was a slow reader, patiently swacking her way through every line.2003, Elana Nachman/Dykewomon, Moon Creek Road: Collected Stories, page 72. From the entry swack
• On idle afternoons I have patiently observed spiders spin shrouds of silk for their trapped prey.2001, Descant. From the entry garua
• They had been patiently following Arthur for hours, trailing him from town to country.1995, Deepak Chopra, The Return of Merlin: A Novel, →ISBN, page 108. From the entry murder
• It was Martin's job to help solve them and, patiently and uncensoriously, that is what he did.1963, PD James, A Mind to Murder. From the entry uncensoriously
• He listened gravely and patiently to his visitor's recital and then struck a desk-bell.1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados Mysteries. From the entry managerial
• He resolved to be delicate but wily, honourable, strictly honourable, but steadily, patiently separative.1915, H. G. Wells, Bealby: A Holiday, London: Methuen, Chapter 8, § 1, p. 306. From the entry separative
• He hated her way of patiently casting him up, as if he were an endless psychological account.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 11”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry cast up
• The mother waited patiently while the boy played with Lego.2022, Lane M. Robson, How to Manage Day and Night Wetting in Children, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 45. From the entry pee-pee dance
• I wait patiently to order my slice.2016, Helaine Becker, Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (Dirk Daring, Secret Agent; 2), Victoria, B.C.: Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry unicorny
• We perched on a bench and Liam waited patiently while I drank my first cup and poured myself a second one.2013, Cory Doctorow, Homeland, New York, N.Y.: Tor Teen, →ISBN, page 329. From the entry thermosful
• The other out-of-town Dons patiently listened, perhaps counting their blessings that each had a city all to himself.2006, Mark Winegardner, The Godfather's Revenge, →ISBN, page 175. From the entry count one's blessings
• Patiently, without baby-talk, she helps him through his ablutions.2005, J. M. Coetzee, “Four”, in Slow Man, New York: Viking, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry ablution
• But for all his patiently accumulated winelore, the 81-year-old pianist, arranger and composer is more a drinker than a collector.2000, The Wine Spectator. From the entry winelore
• Jackie Allen was my friend Phil’s girlfriend, and I pinched her off him, slowly, patiently, over a period of months.1995, Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, London: Victor Gollancz, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry pinch off
• Thanks for patiently scrolling through this shameless self-pluggery.1994 March 27, PStuart, “Magickal Fiction Online”, in alt.magick (Usenet). From the entry pluggery
• To enjoy a wine to its full potential, one must patiently wait until it has aged to perfection.1993, Strategic Highway Research Program Focus. From the entry to perfection
• "Seeya later, alligator." "Okay." "No," Eddie said patiently.1987, Stephen King, It: 2, page 231. From the entry seeya
• For instance, the hen must patiently sit on her eggs to incubate them before the baby chicks hatch.1975, Catherine Marshall, Adventures in Prayer, New York: Ballantine Books, page 46. From the entry incubate
• Austin was patiently and painstakingly concerned with truth within limitations.1970, The Month. From the entry hedgehog
• Our nearest neighbor in the heavens patiently revolves around the earth, waiting for us to learn its secrets.1959 December, Dan Q. Posin, “An Eye on Space”, in Roderick M. Grant, editor, Popular Mechanics, volume 112, number 6, Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry moon shot
• At the present time, they are waiting patiently and eyeingly to see just who their opponent will be.1959 September 4, Joe Dolan, “Home Reporter Sports: Little League World Series Begins Monday”, in Bay Ridge Home Reporter, 7th year…. From the entry eyeingly
• Last night his car horn down at the head of the cove had sounded patiently, callingly, for most of an hour.1957, Borden Deal, Dunbar's Cove. From the entry callingly
• A man who tastes tea,” Newpole said patiently.1957, Benson, Ben, The running man: a Ralph Lindsey mystery, W. Morrow, page 25. From the entry teataster
• Then there were the triffids patiently waiting.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 259. From the entry debalancer
• Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon.1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Bunyan, John”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. From the entry dungeon
• Finishing the book with much dissapointment for the lack of Percabeth in The Lost Hero, I waited patiently for the 2nd book.2014, Areeba Amer, "The Fangirl Who Waited", The GHS Torch (Greenhill Junior Classical League), November 2014, page 3. From the entry Percabeth
• Inside were various bones, still clothed in their white plaster field jackets, as they patiently waited their turn to be liberated and put on display.2011, Richard Polsky, Boneheads: My Search for T. Rex, San Francisco: Council Oak Books, Part 2, Chapter 18, p. 133. From the entry field jacket
• The fragrant white apple blossoms had long since faded and dropped, revealing green nubblets patiently growing day by day in anticipation of autumn's harvest.2010, Jean Edwards, chapter I, in Quiltmaster, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, part I, page 173. From the entry nublet
• Patiently — as patiently as he could with nerves that felt like overtuned guitar-strings — Clay said, "There's nothing wrong with it, honey.2006, Stephen King, Cell: A Novel, New York, N.Y. […]: Scribner, →ISBN, page 110. From the entry overtuned
• When Aunt Myrtle patiently hand-knits a bright orange sweater in a size you wore in sixth grade, you don’t throw it back in her face.1992, Entrepreneur, volume 20, page 120. From the entry hand-knit
• The structural anthropologist urges us to ignore the orthodox who labor so patiently trying to eliminate the apocryphal variants from the one true text.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 11. From the entry apocryphal

Meaning of patiently

1. adverb In a patient manner.

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Questions about patiently in a sentence

How do you use patiently in a sentence?

Patiently is used as an adverb. For example: “They explained patiently but firmly that he wasn't to play with his ding-a-ling nor try to show it to anyone.”

What is a short sentence with patiently?

“I wait patiently to order my slice.”

What does patiently mean?

Patiently means in a patient manner.