How to Use impatience in a Sentence

impatience

noun
  • What stirs the last phrase is an impatience with cliché.
    — Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • What stood out was their impatience.
    — Justin Hotard, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2025
  • One of the worst places for impatience to set in is on an airplane.
    — Andrea Romano, PEOPLE.com, 1 Aug. 2017
  • His impatience got the best of him as coaches had to hold him back.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 24 Sep. 2022
  • Some of the locals have their hands on their hips, a sign of impatience.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Can’t say many aren’t deserved, but most pink slips are sewn with threads of impatience.
    — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Dec. 2022
  • And this impatience doesn’t just stop with research.
    — Christian B. Miller, The Conversation, 4 June 2026
  • This is the part where my impatience usually gets the best of me.
    — Ben Mims, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2023
  • That sometimes was a source of impatience for those queuing up for their turn.
    — oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2020
  • There was no furrow in his brow, no impatience in his demeanor.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2024
  • This time, the impatience was evident on both sides of the aisle.
    — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
  • As the moon and Mars clash, don’t let impatience get the better of you!
    — USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2024
  • They may be frustrated at the pace of change, but chalk that up to the impatience of youth.
    — Mark Weinstein, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
  • In the long term, impatience can take a toll on our bodies, minds, and overall health.
    — Matt Fuchs, Time, 20 Jan. 2026
  • How sad that a person's impatience could have killed someone.
    — Gail Ciampa, The Providence Journal, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Lack of time can be a hindrance, but impatience can be an obstacle in its own right.
    — Tyler Gallagher, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2021
  • But that was the first time the rest of us perhaps realized his impatience.
    — Graham Couch, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2021
  • My time in the cave and, now, beneath this night sky showed me the price of my impatience with the mystery.
    — Michael Pollan, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The series teaches, in more ways than one, that impatience can also be a virtue.
    — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Followed by a message about his impatience in waiting to see her.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • The face, more squarely adult now, has a certitude in the jaw and an impatience in the eyes.
    — Nathan Heller, Vogue, 14 Oct. 2025
  • In response, Jackson sighed, in one of her few signs of impatience in a long day.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022
  • With this growing impatience, the case for cutting our losses grew stronger.
    — Dan Crenshaw, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Alas, youthful impatience appears to have got the better of him.
    — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Her Sydney is wise enough to keep her eyes on the prize, but a streak of impatience doesn’t help her in the long run.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
  • And as Nathan says, the losers will be ‘meme-ified’, an impatience helping nobody.
    — Michael Walker, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Gordy could have both the patience of Job and the impatience of an emperor.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Still, the first of his big plays Saturday came in part as a result of his own impatience.
    — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 18 Sep. 2022
  • On the one hand, the father’s values seemed to have instilled in the son an impatience with softness and elitism.
    — Richard D. Kahlenberg, New Republic, 1 Nov. 2017
  • City Hall, in turn, has expressed impatience that the program has rolled out slowly.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024

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