How To Use Impatient In A Sentence

A couple of years ago some of the players might have got a bit more impatient. The Sun
He had been trying to persuade me to disregard what he termed the obstinacy of the old folks, and said impatiently: Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches
His life was one of varied and significant achievements - an advocate at the Scottish bar, a sound if impatient and pugnacious judge of the Court of Session, and a politically active Whig.
So far, this scribe detects two "fortissimo" candidates -- people palpably impatient to get in office and shake things up. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
Mr Copley, robed in cassock and billowing surplice, was impatiently pacing the back lawn seeming oblivious to their presence.

The captain impatiently yells for him to defend himself.
Tea parties were Irene's favorite activity, and Elisa loved to pretend she was a high society debutante (which she would be in a matter of years but the girl was impatient).
Neoclassical economists say impatiently that it makes sense to borrow against the additional earnings that a university degree may generate.
After a second's wait -- snortingly impatient on Mr. Wilder's part; he was being pressed close by the none too clean citizens of Valedolmo -- the door was opened a very small crack by a frowsy jailoress. Jerry
But the downside is you're increasingly impatient. Times, Sunday Times
But the next minute, the little creature whimpering, she bent down in impatient repentance and kissed it, whimpering too. That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story
Pasgen allowed himself to be divested of three of the amulets he had marked because to fail to chaffer would also mark him as unusual; however, he was growing impatient and finally made as if to throw down the amulets he was holding and walk away. Ill Met By Moonlight
It was hard to recover my form, but I'm not afraid to go into tackles any more and I feel great and impatient for the games to come.
Well, chow-chow, chowri; it's all the same," said the big lad impatiently. Glyn Severn's Schooldays
Juliet enters her bed chamber impatiently waiting to hear news.
Alroy still lingered, and for some hours the warriors of his staff might have been observed lounging about the citadel, or practising their skill in throwing the jerreed as they exercised their impatient chargers before the gates. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity
The newspapers and magazines that fed the American mind — for books upon this impatient continent had become simply material for the energy of collectors — were instantly a coruscation of war pictures and of headlines that rose like rockets and burst like shells. The War in the Air
He reveals that he is impatiently awaiting permission to travel again and eager to be in the field.
Missouri fortunately escaped. opened my trunks and boxes and exposed the articles to dry. found my papers damp and several articles damp. the stoper had come out of a phial of laudinum and the contents had run into the drawer and distroyed a gret part of my medicine in such manner that it was past recovery. waited very impatiently for the return of The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
The big clubs are becoming increasingly impatient at the rate of progress.
To label [Béla] Tarr, co-subject of this week's micro-retro at the Harvard Film Archive, as a downer is merely a philistine's impatient way of saying he's an existentialist, a modern-film Dostoyevsky-Beckett with a distinctly Hungarian taste for suicidal depression, morose self-amusement, and bile," writes Michael Atkinson. GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 1/11.
Understandably, the children were getting impatient for the beach - but how on earth were we going to get down there?
Those that get impatient from the long wait simply pin a note to the front of children’s pockets and leave them in line alone. Safe Haven | Heretical Ideas Magazine
A gaggle of journalists sit in a hotel foyer waiting impatiently.
Their exchanges are often ill-tempered and impatient. Times, Sunday Times
Can I be forgiven for becoming a bit impatient here?
It is not an unreasonable hope, but it could be an impatient expectation that sees you selling yourself short. Times, Sunday Times
I'm an impatient person, which can be a problem when you're trying to grow fruit and vegetables on an allotment.
II. ii.324 (244,8) [Eleven o'clock] Ford should rather have said _ten o'clock_: the time was between ten and eleven; and his impatient suspicion was not likely to stay beyond the time. Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
But on such a morning, apparently, with thousands of webs ready, there can hardly have been enough flies to go round; for we saw all the appetent spiders had emerged from their tubes and were waiting impatiently on the web itself -- as though the host should sit on the tablecloth waiting for his guest. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned
He was a ready scholar as you are, but more fervid and impatient.
We all get impatient at times but most people have the maturity to hold this in check and would rather arrive late than risk not arriving at all.
Max swore as he twisted the lock-pick in the keyhole impatiently, but the lock still refused to oblige.
I know you too well; but I want to hear what you have been doing -- what he said, 'answered Charles, in short, impatient sentences. The Heir of Redclyffe
Chalmers, at the end of his long life, having had much power with the public, being plagued in some serious matter by a reference to public opinion, uttered the impatient exclamation, The public is just a great baby! Sesame and Lilies. Lecture I.-Sesame: Of Kings’ Treasuries
He turned away with an impatient gesture.
He was impatient with bores, sooks and nags; he was full of ideas and energies, and hopeless at small details.
The line became instantly popular and managements all over the world were impatient to snap them up whenever they were free.
Harry and Dolly were waiting impatiently for me, wanting to go out onto the catio to catch the last of the evening.
She was impatient in the knowledge that time was limited.
It is a product of an impatient society that prefers to crick its neck peering at an online news bulletin than wait until the morning for a paper.
Some were kind of grabby, and some were just clearly eager to get married so their toilets were cleaned more often, and came across as impatient with this whole dating process (especially since I'm sure they absorbed the cultural message that a woman is flattered by having a perfect stranger want to get you in a white dress quickly). Feminist blogs
He's got a lot of exciting ideas and he's impatient to get started.
Indeed by this time the whole party were gathered, and in impatient expectation that the dinner would make up to them in some degree for the various disappointments of the morning. Melbourne House
If you're getting impatient for your 15 minutes of fame it's time to make your move.
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe
Harried health workers picked through the impatient crowd, sorting out the sickest children.
You are generous and giving to friends, loved ones and family but impatient of opposition.
By her own account, she had lost her powers of concentration and had become, as a result, short-tempered and impatient. ISAAC CAMPION
We are growing impatient with the lack of results.
The children wait impatiently for the vacation.
He is, however, quite impatient with the clods and dullards who do not find the tradition hopelessly retrograde.
Un jour, le roi étant arrivé au théâtre un peu plus tôt qu'à l'ordinaire, et s'impatientant de ce qu'on ne levait pas la toile, envoya un de ses officiers pour savoir quelle était la cause de ce retard inaccoutumé. French Conversation and Composition
Lipstick had stroked a thin line across her lips, while delicately manicured and bejewelled fingers beat out an impatient rhythm on the menu cover.
Just some people are too impatient to see it, or they don't take it for what it is.
They will be impatient for improvement this time round.
I waiting impatiently for the bell to ring so I could run out to meet my friends at the playground and play cops and robbers.
Lipstick had stroked a thin line across her lips, while delicately manicured and bejewelled fingers beat out an impatient rhythm on the menu cover.
The knights all sat impatiently on their mounts, while several grooms loaded some packhorses with a month's worth of supplies, food, blankets, and clothing.
But, time and tide having waited impatiently in the wings, occasionally shaking their watches, I had really better get on and do some work before my next happy hour of the day finds me seriously behindhand.
She tapped her perfectly manicured fingernails on the granite tabletop impatiently.
They kept asking the same questions over and over until he said impatiently, "Not yet."
She's impatient for her father's arrival.
Imagination, -- all from which, when it was all his own, he had turned half weary and impatient, and termed the exaggerations of a visionary romance, now that the world had lost them evermore, he interpreted aright as truths. My Novel — Volume 12
Coming slowly on through the forests of masts was a great steamship, beating the water in short impatient strokes with her heavy paddles as though she wanted room to breathe, and advancing in her huge bulk like a sea monster among the minnows of the Thames. The Old Curiosity Shop
I longed to get a steady rhythm going and muttered impatiently that we had a mountain to climb.
On the contrary, the patient, like one provoked by interruption, changed her posture, and called out with an impatient tone, "Nurse -- nurse, turn my face to the wa ', that I may never answer to that name ony mair, and never see mair of a wicked world. The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete
Sometimes I wish they could stay kids forever and at others I'm impatient for them to grow up and venture out into the world so I can see what they make of their lives.
The ladies are impatient for their new clothes; the gentlemen half wild for want of tobacco; and things coming to a crisis, they make inquiries for the trader down the road, one village to another, and then, if it is found that a village has killed the trader, and stolen all his goods, there is naturally a big palaver, and things are made extremely hot, even for equatorial Africa, for that village by the tobaccoless husbands of the clothesless wives. Travels in West Africa
At intervals I went to the front window to see if the sign had arrived, becoming more and more impatient as the morning passed and the afternoon ticked away.
Sarah was becoming increasingly impatient at their lack of interest.
Thou wert feverish and impatient this morning until thou wert fairly in it, with its mud and water plashing around thee; and now thou art here, with the trees crowding upon us so thickly that the sun looks not under them once in the whole year, thou creepest like a terapin upon thy journey, as if thou didst greatly fear thou wouldst too quickly get through it; a barren fear, this, for we see but the beginning: the bog deepens, and the day grows darker as we go. The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
The clicking of the sheaves in the blocks as the sails ran down, head - sails first, was music to her; and she detected on the instant the jamming of a jib-downhaul, and almost saw the impatient jerk with which the sailor must have cleared it. Chapter 15
Gloriana was the tallest of the three, with bright red hair flaming and swirling around her head, and green eyes that flashed impatiently.
But being slightly edgy and impatient, he struck a bit too soon.
I was brought back to reality by the honk of an impatient driver behind me.
‘You always were far too impatient,’ Angelus reproved.
We heard a grunt from the undergrowth, then a rustle of leaves, then something pawing impatiently at the ground.
As the frontline of seriously sick infant's rescue and treatment, Neonatus intensive care unit has to confront emergent sick infant and impatient family members.
The impatient horse which will not quietly endure his halter only strangles himself in his stall.
She is going to come at Konta big time, but she can get a little impatient when she thinks she should be winning. Times, Sunday Times
Ne tribus prioribus noctibus rem haberet cum ea. ut esset in pecoribus fortunatus, ab uxore morae impatiente, &c. Anatomy of Melancholy
Even colleagues who have happily signed up to support his candidature admit that they are impatient for his real views to become clear.
The gigantic hands of the clock watching over us up on the wall made me impatient.
The form stepped forward out of the corner, condensing from the darkness into a head, shoulders, and indiscernible body cloaked in some material light and impatient in movement as the summer wraiths in this part of the world.
Mezzo Marie Lenormand was sweetly swaggering as the Fox, who woos and wins the Vixen; baritone Joshua Bloom was pure testosterone as Harašta; and mezzo Melissa Parks was imposing as the Forester's impatient wife and the Owl for which she wore a cagelike garment flecked with feathers. The Beauty of the Beasts
Impatiently he cut short what I was telling him.
That way, you stand a better chance of getting the impatient reader to absorb the essence of your message.
But I think we can be a disconnected, impatient and lonely people.
He cast aside the newspaper impatiently.
With the impatient imperiousness of an Oxfordshire schoolmarm, O'Donnell's Democratic opponent, Chris Coons, lectured, "The First Amendment, the First Amendment establishes ... that there is a separation of church and state that our courts and our laws must respect. Dr. Jonathan David Farley: Witch's Brouhaha: Is Christine O'Donnell Right about the First Amendment, Mice and Men?
Aristolochia L herbs encounters the denial as a result of the kidney toxicity, so it is impatient duty to explore the substitution materials for medicine.
Astor could ignore someone beside him mouthing words without sound and muttering impatiently whenever he had to rewind the tape.
We are growing impatient with the lack of results.
The shot fades out and comes back up the next morning with Kanzaki, asleep at his desk, being awoken by an impatient man holding a tux.
For such a normally quick tempered and impatient people they have shown themselves adepts at procrastination and brinkmanship.
The latter was tapping her old, brittle foot impatiently against the cold marble of the palace floor.
He was boredom personified -- restless, impatient to be away. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
Sylvia's position and outlook from this level then, I thrust my way through what I impatiently dismissed as the "flummery"; by which I meant the poetry, the picturesqueness, the sacrosanct glamour surrounding his The Message
he was tapping his fingers on the table impatiently
After a while Cane began to get bored and impatient.
He seems impatient with you, almost testy to the point of animosity.
Rolling her eyes impatiently, ‘Oh, shush, will you!;
I can imagine even Charlemagne waving that cumbrous label impatiently aside, though Noyon mixed with Laon was his first capital. Everyman's Land
Here is the "positive change" that Gates, Broad, and the impatient "disruptor" profiteers would like to see: Archive 2008-12-01
An impatient driver behind me sounded his horn.
That way, you stand a better chance of getting the impatient reader to absorb the essence of your message.
Impatiently she struggled out of her blue gaberdine suit and began to rip open the thick, shiny bags and the gleaming boxes.
Naturally disliked by the people, they were always asserting their dignity by testy impatient anger. Scottish Voices 1745-1960
I became very impatient with the game before I had even gotten far into it.
And she ran from the apartment to the tube station, returned home, closed the door and lay on the sofa and wept until her father called impatiently from the other room and she walked in and lovingly stroked his forehead until he could go to sleep. Capitol
Vic hoots impatiently at the barrier; the security man's face appears at the window and flashes an ingratiating smile.
You are impatient to see your ideas becoming reality but if you keep pushing, others will simply dig their heels in. The Sun
Dmitri waited impatiently for Nikolai and Rogachev to open the accessway, then dashed ahead of them to begin opening boxes, flinging their contents out onto the deck. I Don’t Understand ?
Impatient, stupid and bloody-minded drivers like this should be made to walk everywhere, so that we smaller fish can cross the road at designated crossings without being in fear of our lives.
Meanwhile the owners or their descendants champ impatiently to recover and lovingly restore what is left of the family heritage.
The doctor seemed tired, impatient and brusque.
People waited impatiently in line behind him at the drugstore as he struggled to get the words out.
Fiona is the first to admit that she is impatient when it comes to her home.
At first Mahmut is caring but he soon grows impatient with his sometimes slow-witted relative and berates him for his sloppy habits.
It's the constancy of calls, the harassed and troubled nature of people on the phone, people are very impatient, they are very abusive of operators.
It was with the lie that they had eaten and drunk and talked and laughed, that they had waited for their carriole rather impatiently, and had then got into the vehicle and, sensibly subsiding, driven their three or four miles through the darkening summer night. The Ambassadors
It had not come as they expected it would come, nor as the intelligentzia desired it; but it had comerough, strong, impatient of formulas, contemptuous of sentimentalism; real. Chapter 5. Plunging Ahead
Bet all this boiling rage and impatient was absent in the days of pony traps.
An impatient mob broke down the doors, took possession of the station, and commandeered the trains without paying their fares.
The llamas skittered impatiently and moved forward and I saw it was for real.
Why?" Pete asked impatiently. — "Yes, why?" Bob chimed in. "It seems like a good idea to me.".
Cujusque ferae pabulum, saith [1748] Seneca, impatient of heat and cold, impatient of labour, impatient of idleness, exposed to fortune's contumelies. Anatomy of Melancholy
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently: “you say that we go round the sun. May I Be Excused? My Brain Is Full.
His posture was impatient, peevish and annoyed that he had to answer to anyone.
Adrian drummed his fingers on his thighs, impatient and nervous.
He cast aside the newspaper impatiently.
The dogs are starting to get a little impatient, but I'm glad to say they are not allowed off their leads until the first fox has been sighted.
He went back to the lab", Iris exclaimed impatiently.
A gaggle of journalists sit in a hotel foyer waiting impatiently.
A piece of veiling fell across her face, and she brushed it away with an impatient hand.
Naturally disliked by the people, they were always asserting their dignity by testy impatient anger. Scottish Voices 1745-1960
An impatient driver behind me sounded his horn.
The need to use antibiotics could also be cut if people were less impatient and waited for minor illnesses to get better naturally, he said. Times, Sunday Times
Marshall stalked impatiently up to her and got to about three inches from her face.
Behind us an impatient motorist tooted a horn.
He cast aside the newspaper impatiently.
He gave another impatient glance at his watch.
The Ghoorka waved his hand impatiently, but I never guessed that he was telling me to keep further away; and as I wanted to get to Mrs. Urquhart's tent as quickly as possible, I did not swerve from the straight path which led to it. A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters
Harry Hadden-Paton as Young Marlow is one moment a picture of paralysed inhibition, and the next a rampant lech pawing the ground like an impatient stallion. She Stoops To Conquer
He deployed the erudition that made his work a source-book of historical and religious criticism in a humane and enquiring spirit, impatient of credulity, superstition, and intolerance.
Vito was pacing back and forth impatiently, while carrying a long stick from a tree and just whipping it around the air, making that whish sound.
Planes, as you may already know, have big wings because they need a lot of lift to get off the ground and start flying around and suchlike, which is mostly what planes do, although sometimes they just sit on the taxiway getting de-iced and making people impatient. Ekranoplan: world’s strangest airplane « raincoaster
She impatiently drummed her fingers on the armrests and stared down her nose as the girl limped forward.
He began to pound impatiently at the door.
Rubbing against the woman's arm, the cat mewed impatiently.
Airen was becoming angry and impatient with Bowen, and began to regret telling him the story.
Marion was impatient for success and the wealth that she missed so desperately.
he waited impatiently in the blind
Like the rest of us, he is sometimes short and impatient with those around him, and he does not suffer fools gladly.
On the contrary, the patient, like one provoked by interruption, changed her posture, and called out with an impatient tone, ` ` Nurse --- nurse, turn my face to the wa ', that I may never answer to that name ony mair, and never see mair of a wicked world.' ' The Heart of Mid-Lothian
At the time he was still, impatiently, waiting to be promoted to principal at the Royal Ballet, but already he was being cast in the sort of roles that would limber him up for this sort of challenge.
Looking forward impatiently to your advice!
Don't be so impatient! The bus will be here soon.
An impatient owner complained that their eight-week old puppy was not house-trained yet and another complained: ‘Our dog gets jealous when we sit together and she hurts my legs when she wags her tail.’
Meanwhile the owners or their descendants champ impatiently to recover and lovingly restore what is left of the family heritage.
Well, if what you call bibliography has produced such eminent men, and so many useful works, as those which have been just enumerated, I shall begin to have some little respect for this department of literature; and, indeed, I already feel impatient to go through the list of your bibliographical heroes. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
We grew impatient waiting for the next dose of reading matter.
Remembering how sufferers feel should stop those around them from being impatient of their sneezing fits. Times, Sunday Times
We are not to strive, become impatient with ourselves, or grow angry or despairing when we find we are bound by some uncleanness.
I have seen Milan Smith on the conservative side in splits, and in fact I have seen him get quite impatient (in opinions) with what he clearly sees as liberal activism; I would describe him as a moderate. The Volokh Conspiracy » Ninth Circuit Denies Rehearing in Al-Kidd v. Ashcroft
Jonathan became impatient, and Tom was about to move on when at last the bearward unlocked the box. The Pillars of the Earth
The people in line behind me were getting impatient. The Other Side of Me
He was tapping his foot impatiently, picking imaginary specks of lint from the sleeve of his coat.
It is not an unreasonable hope, but it could be an impatient expectation that sees you selling yourself short. Times, Sunday Times
he answered her impatiently
Although he's clearly still at the rules stage of building the structure into this young garden, Conran is impatient to get on with the fun of messing.
The horse snorted and stamped its hoof impatiently.
She'd been waiting impatiently at the door for almost twenty minutes, constantly checking and rechecking herself in the entryway mirror.
His fingers tap impatiently on the footboard of the bed.
Why?" Pete asked impatiently. — "Yes, why?" Bob chimed in. "It seems like a good idea to me.".
He is impatient with those who decry the scheme.
Even those who felt liberated, however, are impatient for a government they can call their own.
Thus earnestly does a gracious soul desire communion with God, thus impatient is it in the want of that communion, so impossible does it find it to be satisfied with any thing short of that communion, and so insatiable is it in taking the pleasures of that communion when the opportunity of it returns, still thirsting after the full enjoyment of him in the heavenly kingdom. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Is it any wonder that he gets impatient with the nervous nellies from the old nations who think they have a bit more experience with wars designed to bring peace to the world, and are reluctant to jump into yet another one.
Alex fidgeted impatiently as Miles was brought forth on a stretcher, ignoring the welfare of the Base Coordinator completely.
The people in line behind me were getting impatient. The Other Side of Me
He was jumpy, impatient; both things Mikey had never been in his life.
He's impatient with everything, annoyed at everything, and he always acts without thinking.
When finally he fitted his lean hips into the cradle of hers she was ready for him, impatient for his possession.
Sometimes I'm a bit impatient. Times, Sunday Times
He is impatient, which leads to a lot of bad hacks.
This high-speed technician can be brusque and impatient with the indecisive, but he is a wonder to behold.
Bolstered by season ticket sales, including the new cut-price two-year package, the City chief is impatient to buy now rather than in the summer when competition for young talent will be hotter.
Among the overrated is Mihir Bose's Bollywood, plucked from the crowd by Mark Cousins pegs: "Contains the line, 'he was so nervous that he was a bundle of nerves,' which, when I read it on the train, made me laugh so much that people got impatient. GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 12/13.
Emerging from beneath the spray of the shower, she dried herself briskly before dressing with impatient fingers.
Exhausted and in constant pain, she had to contend with vast, unfathomable personality changes that made her capricious, indecisive, impatient and intolerant.
The Brazilian fans' samba rhythms may be loose, but when it comes to their national team, they are incredibly high-strung and impatient.
Neil no longer looked bored or impatient; he look dumbfounded.
Being an impatient sort, I added water to hurry it along, but I think this stopped the sugar obtaining that lovely golden caramel colour.
If there was jerry-building, it was more likely to have been the result of haste - the impossible demands of an impatient emperor.
The big clubs are becoming increasingly impatient at the rate of progress.
Long acquaintance with her own profession makes her impatient with fantasists and phonies.
My problem now is that I actually type faster than I write (even in cursive), so I get impatient and try to write faster – which makes it even less legible … Print or Cursive « Write Anything
Soames was getting impatient with his daughter's constant nitpicking.

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