[
US
/ˌɪmˈpeɪʃəntɫi/
]
[ UK /ɪmpˈeɪʃəntli/ ]
[ UK /ɪmpˈeɪʃəntli/ ]
ADVERB
-
with impatience; in an impatient manner
he answered her impatiently
How To Use impatiently In A Sentence
- I longed to get a steady rhythm going and muttered impatiently that we had a mountain to climb.
- Astor could ignore someone beside him mouthing words without sound and muttering impatiently whenever he had to rewind the tape.
- 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
- 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.
- Neoclassical economists say impatiently that it makes sense to borrow against the additional earnings that a university degree may generate.
- 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.
- 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