Example sentences for: impatience

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

  • Any cant word or phrase becomes tiresome, which perhaps accounts in part for Burchfield's impatience with at the end of the day . (The word parse , rapidly deployed in press conferences and commentary after President Clinton used an eyebrow-raising tense to describe his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, went from inert silage to spent husk in a matter of hours.)

  • 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.

  • The papers read the Japanese returns--described by USAT and the Wall Street Journal as "stunning" and by the NYT as a "brutal drubbing"--as the electorate's impatience with Hashimoto's ineffectual response to Japan's worse recession in fifty years.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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