How to Use impatient in a Sentence

impatient

adjective
  • She was impatient to leave.
  • Customers have grown impatient with the repeated delays.
  • After months of delays, customers are becoming impatient.
  • Tech stock traders can be an impatient bunch.
    — David Goldman, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • Still, Defne was a bit more impatient with him from then on.
    — Ayşegül Savaş, New Yorker, 24 May 2026
  • Cliff tried to show her the ropes, but Jones grew impatient.
    — Josh Owens, HollywoodReporter, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Or one behind the bus gets impatient and tries to pass.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Do not get impatient when waiting for those dots to dry, by the way.
    — Allure, 25 Feb. 2022
  • Ellen pokes her head out from behind a door as her friends grow impatient.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 6 Oct. 2024
  • People are impatient and too ready to lash out.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 7 May 2026
  • At some point his stride lengthens, brisk, impatient.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The fans are impatient and rightly so.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2025
  • But customers are impatient for a return to the quick, cheap rides.
    — New York Times, 30 May 2021
  • Dewy children close in around me on all sides, impatient for their turn at the mirror.
    — Heather Havrilesky, New York Times, 12 May 2023
  • My job is high-stress and fast-moving, and people can be impatient.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 31 Dec. 2025
  • My job is high-stress and fast-moving, and people can be impatient.
    — Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Beijing is getting more impatient with the status quo as the years go by.
    — Daniel Depetris, Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2025
  • Ozzie is gay and impatient with the world for not being as accepting as his friends.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Feb. 2022
  • His zeal for hitting has led him to be impatient and undisciplined at the plate at times.
    — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • There might be a line to check in, to the annoyance of some more impatient patrons.
    — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The males present are impatient with the queen’s wait-and-see approach, but Rhaenys backs her.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 30 June 2024
  • My sweaty husband grumbles at me for being too impatient to dig our bike stand out of the garage.
    — Adrienne So, Wired, 14 Sep. 2021
  • At the bottom the bus snorted out a cloud of impatient exhaust.
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But the boy had become impatient and sullen, his hands shoved in the pockets of his jacket.
    — Cassandra Neyenesch, New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2026
  • But some in the crowd were impatient with the rescue efforts and tried to take part in it themselves.
    — New York Times, 2 Nov. 2021
  • With a growing line of impatient customers, Tate had to think fast.
    — Southern Living, 28 July 2017
  • That’s what got Leary impatient with science and led to the backlash.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 May 2018
  • What is the proper response to these rude and impatient co-workers?
    — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 26 July 2023
  • And a crush of eager, sometimes impatient, diners is adding to the strain.
    — New York Times, 7 Aug. 2021
  • But Biden’s Left flank is growing impatient with that stance.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 21 May 2021

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