Example sentences for: impatience

How can you use “impatience” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There's an anything-goes quality to even studio pictures that suggests an impatience with old ways of telling stories--a desire to create a new syntax to capture a new kind of flickering consciousness.

  • And then concentration-camp-thin Ruth, in a burst of unusual clarity and impatience, shakes Joseph up with the most mundane diagnosis of all: "I'm just a girl from Westchester who has trouble with food.

  • I could cite a dozen other tones--of pleading impatience, of emotional exhaustion, of inveigling desperation, and so forth--every possible reaction to the Swede and his predicament.

  • Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's expressions of impatience with Israel's alleged failure to fulfill the Oslo accords, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that "no external pressures" will make Israel budge.

  • On Monday, the Financial Times noted "a growing impatience with the attempts to turn her [Diana] into a secular saint" and pointed out that Prince Charles' "popularity rating is now equal to that of Tony Blair, the prime minister who so adeptly expressed the nation's grief a year ago."


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