How To Use Impatience In A Sentence

The watch on deck soon came to the conclusion that "sailoring" was not particularly funny at night, for there was a good deal of gaping, and not a little impatience for the eight bells that would relieve them for Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway
He waited for her arrival in a fever of impatience.
A note of impatience had entered his voice.
Her face was furrowed with impatience, and she looked, then, almost my own age, middle twenties, instead of like a full-time high-school cutter of classes.
As December passed by, and the term drew to a close, Patty's impatience began almost to get the better of her. The Nicest Girl in the School A Story of School Life

Maybe it was to show that my impatience is something I need to come to terms with. Not to worry
Don't let impatience jinx that home plan. The Sun
The horses pranced and reared in anxious impatience.
I watched over my hasty temper, subdued my burning impatience of character, schooled my self-engrossing thoughts, educating myself to the best perfection I might attain, that the fruit of my exertions might be his happiness. The Last Man
Nor do I think that this impatience is necessarily "in step" with right-wing cultural values. Art and Culture
Making an effort to curb her impatience, she set out to explain. FINAL RESORT
Two days of debate followed, producing formulations ever more tortuous and wordy, amid signs of growing impatience from the public galleries.
He is dominated by the forces of anxiety, paranoia, and anger, which manifest in a roughness and impatience toward his beautiful neighbor.
His gray eyes glinted with an air of impatience as he offered a helping hand to another being, a small boy, his choppy brown locks sticking out disobediently in all directions as he was pulled back to his feet.
He did note increased international impatience with what he termed the "absence" of a peace process. Obama: '67 borders reflect longstanding policy
He stamped his feet as he waited with barely concealed impatience for the telephone.
Don't let impatience jinx a relationship that needs time. The Sun
Drunk or sober, he was driven by a manic energy and impatience that made him a difficult friend and an almost impossible husband and father.
But it requires a longer term perspective on the Labour Movement which rejects the catastrophism, inflation, impatience and economism which have been hallmarks of the British Left.
She soothed the impatience of the hand on her cheek, and, almost absently, musingly scrutinizing it without consciously seeing it, turned it over and slowly kissed the palm. CHAPTER XXVII
Inwardly glowing with impatience, Arthur yet saw the necessity of obeying his guide; and when he had pulled the long and loose upper vestment from the old man, he stood before him in a cassock of black serge, befitting his order and profession, but begirt, not with a suitable sash such as clergymen wear, but with a most uncanonical buff-belt, supporting a short two-edged sword, calculated alike to stab and to smite. Anne of Geierstein
Their analysis too often mingles management jargon, misapplied analogy, moralistic rhetoric, impatience and fear. Times, Sunday Times
I would have made a few comments, and requested a short history of the place from the surly owner; but his attitude at the door appeared to demand my speedy entrance, or complete departure, and I had no desire to aggravate his impatience previous to inspecting the penetralium. Wuthering Heights
You think faster than the people around you but don't let impatience jinx a work project. The Sun
There's an enormous conference in Austria this week called Money, Happiness and Impatience, with the best and the brightest, and the World Bank, jetting in for the talkfest.
THE JORDAN TIMES editorial, entitled "A Thought for Humanity", in the 25th of December edition of the THE JORDAN TIMES indicates the degree of impatience Jordan and other neighbouring Holy Land states are having with both Israel's and Hamas 'belligerent (i.e. round-the-wagons) approach to governance and failed peacemaking in this new Millennium. William Walker Reports from Rachel's Tomb Checkpoint of the Massive Barrier Wall Near Bethlehem this Christmas
Try not to let impatience take over. The Sun
You think faster than the people around you but don't let impatience jinx a work project. The Sun
Henry was nineteen years old, bull-necked, stocky and freckled, a man of electric energy and ferocious impatience, compelling charm and an ungovernable temper.
This sense of failure in turn leads to the expression of impatience and anger toward the bereaved person.
Even his face was angular, with small black eyes that burned with inexhaustible impatience, and full of crooks and sharp, awkward angles, from his pointy ears to his thin white mouth and his sharp, narrow chin.
Impatience manifesting in rudeness or shortness is symptomatic of a rhythm problem.
There is considerable impatience with the slow pace of political change.
During the campaign, the political leadership showed considerable impatience to get the thing over with. Times, Sunday Times
Just be sure impatience doesn't jinx your plans. The Sun
Impatience with ethical laxity is common to all the TV judges.
Still, there is that natural impatience about him which means he wants to be No 1 in the world sooner rather than later.
There is growing impatience in Washington at the failure of the military to capture him.
The wood that had been drawn for the fire was green, and it ignited too slowly to satisfy the shivering impatience of women and children; I vented mine in audibly grumbling over the wretched fire, at which I in vain endeavoured to thaw frozen bread, and to dress crying children. Roughing It in the Bush
Either Mr Huntingdon would take things into his own hands, and, acting with characteristic impetuosity and bluffness, would most likely hinder where he meant to help forward, or else he would fail perhaps to understand and appreciate his son's views and methods of proceeding, and would prevent a successful issue by his impatience or interference. Amos Huntingdon
There is a constant feeling of suppressed impatience from him, although every so often he breaks into a wheezy, rumbustious, infectious laugh.
She peered at him, complacent, curious, blightingly unconscious of his emotions, and the young man felt a stirring of hot impatience. The Love Affairs of Pixie
Cornelia figured to him while he walked away as, by contrast and opposition, a massive little bundle of data; his impatience to go to see her sharpened as he thought of this: so certainly should he find out that wherever he might touch her, with a gentle though firm pressure, he would, as the fond visitor of old houses taps and fingers a disfeatured, overpapered wall with the conviction of a wainscot-edge beneath, recognise some small extrusion of history. The Finer Grain
You will see it on my ticket if you look in your wallet;" but this, of course, the magnate refused to do, and when another hoot of the whistle announced the engineer's impatience he called a brakeman, saying: Lorimer of the Northwest
‘Quit stalling Dan and tell me’ impatience clear in her tone.
We had read all the press releases and brochures, yet our impatience was ill-concealed as the BMW press officers gave a brief overview of their newest produce.
I also like Mill's querulous intolerance of the conformist pressure of orthodoxy and his impatience with unthoughtfulness.
For these days, the young in all professions are seized of a quite extraordinary impatience.
She longed to please, Davide noticed with sympathy commingled with impatience.
She let out a sigh of impatience.
She saw him crumple them up in a sudden burst of impatience, and fling them across the parade.
Let us figure his mildness and equanimity in the midst of their impatience, and perhaps their scurrility.
This impatience of continued application to work, which is common to all opium-eaters, and which does not cease with the abandonment of the habit, seems to result in the first case from some specific relation between the drug and the meditative faculties, promoting a state of habitual reverie and day-dreaming, utterly indisposing the opium-user for any occupation which will disturb the calm current of his thoughts, and in the other, proceeding from the direct disorder of the nervous organization itself. The Opium Habit
He now faces an emboldened opposition as Russians show increasing impatience. Times, Sunday Times
There was a total commitment to modernism and innovation, an impatience to get to the future ahead of everybody else.
There was impatience over the slowness of reform.
And is there not a gust of impatience with the congregation to be detected behind the ‘ordinary kind of guy prime minister’ act?
His letters to Mr. Astor, wherein he pours forth the bitterness of his soul, and his seamanlike impatience of what he considers the "lubberly" character and conduct of those around him, are before us, and are amusingly characteristic. Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains
Thirdly, and lastly, in this prefatorial say, there is to be considered that inevitable defeator of all printed secrets -- impatience. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
Every few seconds he harrumphed noisily to indicate his impatience.
Obama needs to work harder to connect with moderates, even if their impatience is premature. Better Listen to Bill Clinton’s Good on Green Jobs.
It's depressing when your mind becomes a sewer of spattering hate and impatience that you don't remember asking for.
‘They showed disappointment, frustration and impatience, and put forward stringent conditions for the disbursement of the funds pledged,’ he said.
They seem to represent a bursting out, possibly in impatience, from both the complexity and the constrictions of the current American poetical idiolect.
Roosevelt's impatience and his impetuousness worked in his favor after he became personally involved in the negotiations between the warring powers.
Any show of impatience will be properly resented (see also Where to begin? Blaikie's Guide to Modern Manners
As he retired, bursting with ineffectual indignation, Esdale was the first person whom Hartley chanced to meet with, and to him, stung with impatience, he communicated what he termed the infamous conduct of the The Surgeon's Daughter
But Gordon answered that one, too, betraying only the slightest hint of impatience.
This brash candour and impatience with mass culture are clearly audible on these two albums.
Try to control your impatience when any unexpected problem arises.
He waited for her arrival in a fever of impatience.
Webb wove his way between the leisurely Sunday drivers, curbing his impatience. PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW
This sense of pride, which in some black GIs manifested itself in justifiable impatience, led to many bloody confrontations.
He bit back a sigh of impatience.
Love may be slow but you are getting there so don't let impatience jinx your plans. The Sun
I just marched all the way to the phone, getting impatience with the sound of the ringing.
But time is tied to the wrist or kept in a box, ticking with impatience.
Instead of letting impatience jinx love, you are ready to give romance the time it needs. The Sun
A puerile tear dimmed my eye while I looked a tear of disappointment and impatience.
In many democracies around the world there is a similar hope, a restless impatience with politics as it is. Times, Sunday Times
In our impatience to land, I and my friend left the schooner in a cockleshell of a boat, which upset in the surge, and we found ourselves floundering in the water. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
That was last October," he answered with a sing-song weariness suggestive of impatience at such supererogative explanations. Never-Fail Blake
Don't let impatience jinx plans that mean a lot to the family. The Sun
tediousness" upon Leonato and by his own impatience. Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies
Instead of letting impatience jinx love, you are ready to give romance the time it needs. The Sun
Any child gets to a point of impatience with his or her parents and the romance of having another mother or father must be terribly tempting.
To say the least, I am suffering from a horrible case of impatience.
My impatience was so great that, in spite of Gabriel's displeasure at what he called my rashness, I would not stay in London on the way, but we travelled straight down, reaching Fletcher's Hall at midnight. The Wings of Icarus
Spock allowed it to sweep over and through him, to buffet and suffuse him with impatience, frustration, and a determination to kill. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
a show of impatience
Too slow for Boylan, blazes Boylan, impatience Boylan, joggled the mare. Ulysses
Pyongyang was also voicing mounting impatience with what it deemed laggard progress on the reactor project.
Impulsiveness, impatience, senseless rebellion, and extravagance are the traits that so often undermine their work and dreams.
Levi was well-known for his impatience with long-winded, solipsistic or obscurantist prose.
Well, I have shown you how to do this before, " she said, unable to disguise her impatience.
All the time, those in the queue behind me did not register the slightest show of impatience or displeasure.
A mix of impatience and abhorrence filled his face.
One thing that has probably mellowed only a little with age is Lloyd's famously sharp tongue and his impatience with incompetence or poor thinking.
Had it not been for the impatience of the precentor and the grumbling of the mourners outside, there is no saying when the remains would have been lifted through the "bole," or little window. Auld Licht Idyls
Love is ready to say more - don't let impatience jinx it. The Sun
Each new revelation was greeted with raucous shouts of impatience.
In the mornings my husband walked the endless corridors of oil power, hoping for patience to overcome impatience.
Ideas flow fast and your plans are on track so don't let impatience jinx them. The Sun
The impatience and irritation that was such a marked characteristic of New York is gone, replaced by a rare generosity and calm.
He now faces an emboldened opposition as Russians show increasing impatience. Times, Sunday Times
This shewed a kind of fretful impatience; nor was it to be wondered at, considering our disagreeable ride. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
Don't let impatience jinx a relationship that needs time. The Sun
Ideas flow fast and your plans are on track so don't let impatience jinx them. The Sun
She showed impatience to continue the climb.
Just be sure impatience doesn't jinx your plans. The Sun
A note of impatience had entered his voice.
You think faster than those around you but impatience must not jinx home plans. The Sun
Every thing that subsequently went wrong stemmed from Dewar's impatience and inexperience.
Ideas flow fast and your plans are on track so don't let impatience jinx them. The Sun
He shook his head in a gesture of impatience.
Here the knight made a gesture of impatience. — “Nay, fair son, hear me but one moment — the grave is closed and covered by the sod — what can we believe, but that it conceals the bloody corpse of the fallen duellist?” The Monastery
In our hurry and impatience we thus tend to fall into confusion and error unwittingly; the sophist, on the other hand, deliberately glozes over or omits what is not obvious, and hopes to cover up his tracks by means of all the tricks of his trade.
I drink only orange juice, never tea or coffee, which would only increase my level of impatience.
Do not let impatience jinx a love relationship that needs more time. The Sun
You will think faster and smarter than people around you but don't let impatience show. The Sun
Strether was an abrupt reaction, a final impatience of his own tendency to temporise. The Ambassadors
Chaque semaine, il attendait avec impatience de recevoir dans sa boîte aux lettres votre chronique. Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas
You think faster than those around you but impatience must not jinx home plans. The Sun
Let me go long," she requested, ashiver with impatience. The Rebel Worlds
Inevitably, impatience will also overwhelm whatever high-minded arguments we might make in favor of the well-being of future generations.
Stranger with some impatience at the lengthiness of my introductory process. Flatland: a romance of many dimensions
And there were other things in our companionship that took strong hold of my mind: to discourse and jest with him; to indulge in courteous exchanges; to read pleasant books together; to trifle together; to be earnest together; to differ at times without ill-humor, as a man might do with himself, and even through these infrequent dissensions to find zest in our more frequent agreements; sometimes teaching, sometimes being taught; longing for someone absent with impatience and welcoming the homecomer with joy. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
Do not let impatience jinx a love relationship that needs more time. The Sun
Captors and captives stood in dumb impatience for the roll-call to be finished.
At all the more public pumps there is much cooling of bare feet, together with much bubbling and gurgling of drinking with hand to spout on the part of these Bedouins; the Cloisterham police meanwhile looking askant from their beats with suspicion, and manifest impatience that the intruders should depart from within the civic bounds, and once more fry themselves on the simmering high – roads. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
His narrow eyes betrayed his impatience.
You are smart enough to let love move at its own speed and will not let impatience jinx it. The Sun
Try not to let impatience or restlessness mess things up. The Sun
But in fact his very impatience, which makes him barge his way through the first couple of minutes of the piece, produces the most incredible feats of prestidigitation.
[1] "C'est lui [Dieu] qui fait naître au-dedans la sécheresse, l'impatience, le découragement, pour nous humilier par la tentation, et pour nous montrer à nous-mêmes tels qui nous sommes. Louis XIV's Secret Wife
One of us, at least, was stirred at Renard's calm assumption -- the assumption so common to artists, who, when they see a good thing at once count on its possessorship, as if the whole world, indeed, were eternally sitting, agape with impatience, awaiting the advent of some painter to sketch in its portrait. In and out of Three Normady Inns
His audience treated him with caution and courtesy, while its skepticism and impatience steadily increased.
She shook her head with a gesture of impatience.
And I seed the biggest, longest, rip-roarenest, blackest, scaliest --" Captain Suggs paused, wiped his brow, and ejaculated "Ah, L-o-r-d!" so as to give full time for curiosity to become impatience to know what he saw. Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor. With a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley
And all without the slightest signs of irritation or impatience.
So we find a certain impatience and restlessness in their agenda. George Neumayr on "Nancy Pelosi's Modest Proposal"
After just nine months in office, the President is facing a growing impatience to show results. Times, Sunday Times
People in charge of the investigation have expressed chagrin repeatedly at the anger and impatience expressed by those whose loved ones perished.
'The lady,' said Joscelyn with some impatience, 'who understand the letter must outdo me in wits, for I find no understanding whatever in your silly song. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
Elvira being examined apart, in like manner, declared that her intended husband's impatience and her own dislike to the formality of a publishment, had led them to avoid the usual mode and forms of marriage. A New England tale, and Miscellanies
There is a constant feeling of suppressed impatience from him, although every so often he breaks into a wheezy, rumbustious, infectious laugh.
It's the news a lot of people locally have been waiting for with a sense of growing impatience for a long time.
Don't let impatience jinx your plans at work. The Sun
Don't let impatience stop you checking cash facts meticulously. The Sun
Impatience with non-violence and the deafness shown by political leaders led to the emergence of more militant groups such as The Weathermen.
It's a seemly confrontation of the inquisitive impatience of the young, and the stately acceptance of the old.
They show the greatest impatience, and even disgust, when they hear a ranting resolution-maker berating slavery.
All sang the song of war, and burning with impatience to imbrue their hands in the blood of their enemies, rushed down among innocent and defenceless families on the frontiers of Carolina, where men, women and children, without distinction, fell a sacrifice to their merciless fury. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 2
He expressed impatience at the slow rate of progress.
They say, wherever water is found, some or other species of these minute wonders may be met with; standing pools, and rivers, and ditches all have them; and some particularly beautiful are to be found in bog water; so with, I am afraid you will think, a not very commendable impatience, I am pointing my steps towards a bog that I know – in the wish to get some of the best first. The Old Helmet
But impatience could jinx your plans. The Sun
Ase said with an impatience that made his mother blink.
There have been rumblings of impatience and dissatisfaction on Capitol Hill recently that lawmakers are using the arms procurement bill as a political power-struggle tool.
I need something good to read & my impatience is starting to make an appearance! Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
With eagerness one turns toward the east, with angry impatience one marks the unchequered darkness; the crowing of a cock, that sound of glee during day-time, comes wailing and untuneable — the creaking of rafters, and slight stir of invisible insect is heard and felt as the signal and type of desolation. The Last Man
Yet all this takes time and Wall Street is showing the impatience for which it is notorious. Times, Sunday Times
--- J.C. expected by the coach a new number of an interesting periodical publication, and walked forward on the highway to meet it, with the impatience which Cowper has described as actuating the resident in the country when longing for intelligence from the mart of news. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
She had a thing she did to show impatience, where she dipped her body and tilted her head and went half limp, her mouth showing a yawny oh. Underworld
He hid his canoe in the bushes and strode rapidly across the islet, pushing with impatience through the twigs of heavy undergrowth intercrossed over his path. Almayer's Folly
Shchukin grasped at once that Nymph and Satyr was an affront to decency and morals, which only increased his impatience to possess it. My Kind of Collector
Love may be slow but you are getting there so don't let impatience jinx your plans. The Sun
I perceived within myself, saying, "He is disturbed, and listens to my advice with impatience;" and, having called the sahib diwan, or lord high treasurer, in virtue of a former intimacy that subsisted between us, I stated his case and spoke so fully upon his skill and merits, that he put him in nomination for a trifling office. The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
Love is ready to say more - don't let impatience jinx it. The Sun
Bennett fidgeted with impatience, and suggested calling a sentry to evict the fakir. Kim
With a tractable reading list in front of me my impatience with reading turned quickly into avidity.
And there is a strangely discontented mood abroad in the land as prosperity has brought its own problems, not least envy and impatience.
There was a hint of impatience in his tone.
No sooner was this arrangement made, than Lord Glenvarloch expressed to Lowestoffe his impatience to leave this discreditable assembly, and took his leave with a careless haste, which, but for the rundlet of Rhenish wine that entered just as he left the apartment, might have been taken in bad part. The Fortunes of Nigel
Entering into its emptiness, frivolity, and falsehood, with a spirit inspired by scorn and impatience, I took my revenge on this “fat,” by making him as fatuitous as I possibly could. Villette
For a second I thought he was going to hit me, his eyes were flashing with anger and impatience.
But be sure impatience doesn't jinx a relationship that needs time. The Sun
For long-term investors, this was an opportunity to "exploit the short-term impatience," says David Herro , portfolio manager for Oakmark International and Oakmark International Small Cap . Buying Japan Once Again
Sir Stephen, already worried by the difficulty with Clephane and his pony, and angry with his sister for quitting the party, spoke with savage impatience to the old boatman, and assisted, himself, in shoving off the boat, and putting up the tiny sail. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
My desire to go and hear Berma received a fresh stimulus which enabled me to await the coming of the matinée with impatience and with joy; having gone to take up, in front of the column on which the playbills were, my daily station, as excruciating, of late, as that of a stylite saint, I had seen there, still moist and wrinkled, the complete bill of Within a Budding Grove
Be sure impatience doesn't jinx a love relationship that needs time to get stronger. The Sun
The moment that he said the word Hilda started back with a gesture of impatience and contempt, and regarded him with an expression of anger and indignation, and with a frown so black that it seemed as if she would have blasted him with her look had she been able. The Cryptogram A Novel
I struggled down to pick them up, to a growing mutter of impatience from the people in the queue behind me.
It was so completely not worth it to wait for someone that was diddling along without a care in the world, so he pushed the car into a fast speed; a fast speed that fed his impatience with everything he needed.
Home plans can still work out so don't let impatience jinx them. The Sun
Darcy glanced at the awed expressions around him with impatience.
When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life.
'The good woman of the house was in momentary expectation of her husband's arrival, but when one hour had elapsed, her impatience overcame her discretion, and she dispatched the slave a second time to summon the moollah, who, in his anxiety to promote a better work, had forgotten the subject of tying the naarah to the moosul. Observations on the Mussulmauns of India Descriptive of Their Manners, Customs, Habits and Religious Opinions Made During a Twelve Years' Residence in Their Immediate Society
Bardo eased their impatience by having hundreds of new Ringists go among them with billies full of beer and wine. THE BROKEN GOD
Sadly, the impatience of many has led them to attempt a bricolage of history.
There is considerable impatience with the slow pace of political change.
The impatience in his nature only partly mellowed with age. Times, Sunday Times
We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street. Allan Lokos
Yet the forthright honesty and steely lucidity of his voice in these interviews, his impatience with cant and pious waffle, also bear witness to the virtues of that rationality.
Senora Barenna, who made this remark, heaved a sigh and sat back in her canework chair with that jerkiness of action which in elderly ladies usually betokens impatience with the ways of young people. In Kedar's Tents
A word murmured in a dream, an involuntary thought, an immodest glance, a gesture of impatience, a reminiscence of dissipation, an omission, a shake of the head that might reveal what you know, or what is known about you for your woes — —” Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
People lobbying for the project to proceed are abundantly justified in their impatience.
To demonstrate Villa's impatience, he compares Villa to Murat, King of the Two Sicilies in the 19th Century. Part 1: Mexico at the Turn of the Century
Mozart shook his head with impatience and started to jig and dance about in the road.
You are smart enough to let love move at its own speed and will not let impatience jinx it. The Sun
Christophe, who was standing by, made no attempt to conceal his impatience, called the impresario, and said: Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House

How To Use Impatience In A Sentence

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