How To Use Patience 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
  • You need infinite patience for this job.
  • As they negotiated the park gates and turned into the crowded thoroughfare, Patience sat, stiffly erect; inside, her emotions churned. A RAKE'S VOW
  • In life, patience is the key. It's much better to be going somewhere slowly than nowhere fast.
  • Month after month our patience has gone unrewarded until the latest edition of the magazine, when we've managed to bag a whopper.
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  • Then the pleasant little surprises of all kinds that we imagined; and the pleasant looks that greet us when we condescend to accept them; the patience that can translate our most unwarrantable "crossness", because there has been some trifling difficulty in obtaining the half of a star or the corner of a moon which it had pleased us to require, into "such a good sign of being really better"; and then our appetite (which the gods know is at that season singularly keen), how is it not tempted with unutterable dainties and friande morsels, all sorts of amateur cookery in our behalf, where Love himself has not disdained to turn the spit, and look into the stewpan! and all served up so gracefully on the small tray, covered with its delicate white damask cloth, arraying with more than mortal charms the moulds of crystal jelly and pure-looking blanc mange! Zoe: The History of Two Lives
  • They sat in silence, and with tireless patience watched our every motion with that vile, uncomplaining impoliteness which is so truly The Innocents Abroad
  • After two hours her patience gave out.
  • But please do try to abate your demands upon our patience in future. KARA KUSH
  • I looked heavenwards as if hoping for a miraculous infusion of patience and tried hard to conceal my irritation. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
  • His behaviour would try the patience of a saint.
  • Henry's negative attitude is beginning to try my patience .
  • The girl began to whine and her mother was losing her patience.
  • 'I'm warning you!' said James, losing his patience.
  • We thank our shareholders, bondholders and employees for their patience and continued support. Times, Sunday Times
  • Talking to the family about money may test your patience but gets the right results. The Sun
  • I would like to express my deep sense of gratitude to the staff for their patience.
  • Holiness answers audience questions addressing the situation of Tibet, goal of bodhicitta, nature of enlightened mind, future of the Dalai Lama institution, compatibility of Buddhist practices with theistic faith, universal purpose of human life, practice of patience towards harm-doers, subtle energy and mind, and the Heart Sutra mantra. Nagarjuna's Bodhichitta Commentary
  • He waited for her arrival in a fever of impatience.
  • The film shows the same patience as the artist, carefully and without comment depicting his step-by-step preparations and techniques as he tries to capture the quince tree and the light shooting through its leaves.
  • Patience and dedication may not sound exciting but earn you a place on a work team. The Sun
  • Patience, peace and a good heart endear you to family, friends and loved ones.
  • Despite a shy and diffident manner,(Sentence dictionary) Davison was a hard-working and gifted teacher of endless patience.
  • In love you have patience, kindness, the absence of jealousy, pride and boastfulness.
  • O most gentle pulpiter! what tedious homily of love have you wearied your parishioners withal, and never cried 'Have patience, good people!' As You Like It
  • As a result, patience, perseverance and interest are required.
  • The need to respond to good with good, to generosity with generosity, constancy in her affections, patience and love of work are qualities that have been with Lena since childhood.
  • The only requirements are patience, a willingness to learn and a readiness to let go of the habits of a lifetime.
  • I was almost at the limits of my patience.
  • He'd reached the limit of his patience.
  • She has shown extraordinary patience towards the boy.
  • Right now it's pretty dry and thrashed from the stripping treatment, but I have expensive shampoo and conditioner, and the brutal hairdresser assured me that with patience and continued use my hair would work its way back to normal. Hair fix #3
  • While I enjoyed the news-less interlude, too many strikes will weary public patience and risk handing viewers and listeners to the opposition.
  • Endure then with patience that which thou sufferest, for verily thou deservest all that betideth thee! — The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures MIGHT HAVE HOPE. The Art of T.C. Chiu
  • It was all a far cry from the 1897 Irish Times article which described the course as ‘a rabbit warren below the village, where a golfer requires limitless patience and an inexhaustible supply of balls’.
  • Our hard work and patience finally paid off and I would like to thank my colleagues, and the many officers from other constabularies who assisted us.
  • A note of impatience had entered his voice.
  • I do is to prevent mischeff; and seeing your Honner has so much patience, which younge master has not; so am not affeard of telling your Honner any thing whatsomever. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3
  • 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
  • Patience was not one of her virtues. Times, Sunday Times
  • Thank you for your patience.
  • There is a fine line between maturity, sobriety and patience, and indifference, alienation and disgust.
  • Given patience, successful breeding of this species can be achieved.
  • 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
  • Playing patience on my laptop is not the answer. Times, Sunday Times
  • Patience is a plaster for all sores. 
  • He doesn't have the patience to wait.
  • Whatever Lewis lacked in intellect, he compensated with hard work, observation, patience, perfectionism, rote learning, and attention to detail.
  • The horses pranced and reared in anxious impatience.
  • Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her. 
  • 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
  • I love my home, I love my job, I love belonging here, and I love this place, but it's trying my patience.
  • He showed incredible foresight, tolerance and patience in trying to resolve problems, which was something my father had. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nor do I think that this impatience is necessarily "in step" with right-wing cultural values. Art and Culture
  • At such times, mindfulness of the practice of patience and the application of certain techniques will help us to continue generating this attitude.
  • Furthermore, the Scottish curlers had succeeded by deploying the ‘traditional womanly virtues of patience, lower lip-biting and sweeping’.
  • They say that patience pays - which probably explains why I'm always short of cash.
  • It was exacting work and required all his patience.
  • He was good-tempered with her, only occasionally losing patience, telling her not to be a fool. THE GOLDEN LION
  • True patience is grounded in wisdom & compassion. Allan Lokos 
  • He's a good teacher, but he doesn't have much patience with the slower pupils.
  • Patience and determination will be the star prize. The Sun
  • 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.
  • After three attempts my patience erodes to the point that I begin mumbling a string of off-color language to the howling wind. Excerpt: The Privilege of Youth by Dave Pelzer
  • I have come into villages where, had we acted a domineering part, and rummaged every hut, we should have found nothing; but by sitting down quietly, and waiting with patience until the villagers were led to form a favorable opinion of us, a woman would bring out a shellful of the precious fluid from I know not where. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
  • It's not an easy pill to swallow for Canadians, but it's time to test the patience and just wait till next year.
  • I could never deny, in looking back upon what followed, that I was eminently stockish; and I must say the ladies were well drilled to have so long a patience with me. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
  • This movie really stretches the patience of the audience to the limit.
  • Patience is an essential attribute for a teacher.
  • He has a sense of humour plus tolerance and patience.
  • God often works by contrarieties, he first kills and then makes alive, he woundeth first and then healeth, he makes man sow in tears that he may reap in joy; 'tis God's method: he that is so visited, must with patience endure and rest satisfied for the present. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • And I would prefer that patience be counseled and that the process take its course.
  • With patience and persistence, it will turn out to be both the right and the smart thing to do.
  • In his job, patience is an invaluable asset.
  • Patience and tact will get your home plans moving. The Sun
  • Buttonholed while crossing the court-house lawn, and backed into a corner between the county clerk's office and the jail, Shelby had to listen with what patience he might to her denunciation of what she called his vile concord with Belial. The Henchman
  • She has little patience with such views.
  • He flared his nostrils, threatened anyone who decided to continue the Patience / Horse argument with violence.
  • We thank our shareholders, bondholders and employees for their patience and continued support. Times, Sunday Times
  • Patience was wearing thin and time was running out. Times, Sunday Times
  • The problem most of the reviews expose is Erikson's verbosity and a very slow and meandering buildup with many subplots leading nowhere, but the reader's patience is ultimatelly paid of by another bombastic ending (yup, a convergence). Archive 2008-07-01
  • I ran out of patience with the busy lines with the voice that told me I was appreciated.
  • What I admire most about Lee is his patience.
  • Patience is the best remedy (or medicine). 
  • The whole 2000 miles has been an everlasting see-saw, shuggy-shoo, and enough to tire the patience of even a chemist, who is the most patient of all animals. The Personal Life Of David Livingstone
  • No, I am a man of patience, and if I didn’t have these four-hour delays – I wouldn’t get the chance to eat salmon club sandwiches at the Mountain Lodge Bar & Grill (a little chewy, but it did taste salmony), browse the books at Coles (is it just me, or is there a lot of Obama books out these days? Dispatch From Purgatory » Dave Brosha Photography
  • God (1Ti 1: 11-13). we faint not -- in boldness of speech and action, and patience in suffering (2Co 4: 2, 8-16, &c.). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Patience and wisdom walk hand in hand, like two one-armed lovers. Jarod Kintz 
  • He is dominated by the forces of anxiety, paranoia, and anger, which manifest in a roughness and impatience toward his beautiful neighbor.
  • Patience was wearing thin and time was running out. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • She bore witness to his patience and diligence.
  • Cold, heavy, the weight of dismay started to coalesce in Patience's stomach. A RAKE'S VOW
  • A doctor should learn how to exercise patience to his clients.
  • Almost all the four-year-olds arrive in nappies, since parents have neither the skill nor patience to potty-train. Times, Sunday Times
  • Their helpers are gifted with amazing powers of patience.
  • 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.
  • However, with perseverance and patience, you will be sure to find that perfect antique collectible you have been seeking.
  • I think the parents of baby boomers were much more patient than baby boomers and I think the millennials have no patience.
  • Conquering the great monster with patience, courage, skill and intellect hearkens back to their ancient mythology, providing a link to the past and a way for the future.
  • Don't let impatience jinx a relationship that needs time. The Sun
  • With patience and the blessings of modern technology, Rima may one day learn more about her father (terrific!) or about Addison (still better!).
  • Patience is the plaster of all sores. 
  • Indeed, the game is sometimes called patience sorting, where patience is the British term for solitaire.
  • Some might think their patience has been stretched far enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • Compiling a dictionary asks patience.
  • His efficiency, tact, patience and deep sensitivity meant that he was ideally suited for both roles. Times, Sunday Times
  • She did not back down, instead she continued drawling, ‘My patience is wearing thin, so follow closely and remain quiet if you would like to know the way to your room.’
  • Fortune often rewards with interest those that have patience to wait for her. 
  • For those with the patience to search, this will prove a wonderfully evocative and various show. Times, Sunday Times
  • Patience and proof that were and are your still appriser Perpetual Light : a memorial
  • It takes time and patience to photograph wildlife.
  • The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. Paulo Coelho 
  • To travel through the world it is necessary to have the mouth of hog, the legs of a stag, the eyes of a falcon, the ears of an ass, shoulders of a camel, and the face of an ape, and overplus, a satchel full of money and patience
  • The transition to democracy and market economies will call for much patience and persistence.
  • 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.
  • And since she answered my silly questions with patience and saccharine sweetness, she is in my good books.
  • The support worker snapped at me that she didn't have any patience with me after what had happened the night before, and I shouldn't even be there, I was lucky they let me go back.
  • 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
  • My gudesire was, by this time, far beyond the bounds of patience, and, while he and Laurie were at deil speed the liars, he was wanchancie aneugh to abuse Redgauntlet
  • Try using a fine sable rigger brush which will make very precise lines, although this does require patience!
  • They have shown no compassion, no understanding, no tolerance, and especially, no patience.
  • Meanwhile, nearly a calm tries the patience and wastes time; yet is the moonlit sea like a vast plain studded with glow-worms; and the noonday sea like lapis lazuli, flecked with silver. Extracts from a Lady's Log-Book,
  • 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
  • The new mood allows for more nationalism, more assertiveness, less patience with allies, a greater readiness to go it alone.
  • Despite bad moods and worse manners, the car could always be tamed by appreciation, patience and just enough rein.
  • I have run out of patience with her.
  • And Maren Le Moyne -- venturer of the venturers, flame of fire among them, urger, inspirer, and moral leader, a living pillar before them in her eagerness -- must needs curb her soul in bonds of patience and wait at Fort de Seviere for another spring. The Maid of the Whispering Hills
  • He had no patience for other people, especially for mouthy Irishwomen who showed no gratitude for being rescued. The Lightkeeper
  • 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
  • Learning to walk again after his accident required great patience.
  • You think faster than the people around you but don't let impatience jinx a work project. The Sun
  • I have been impressed by his sheer patience, doggedness, and tenacity.
  • She helped me overcome my computer klutziness sufficiently to set up here, taught me the meaning of html, and exhibited remarkable patience throughout. Cake
  • From this point of view, it is also very important to practice compassion and patience.
  • His cunning, speed, condition, and endurance can tax the physique and patience of his pursuers to the utmost.
  • We have to have the patience and persistence to see this through to success. 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.
  • To him the bird's long face seemed full of patience and wisdom. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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
  • Barlow used to say, the difference between a good detective and a no-account one is three things: patience, patience, and patience. TROPIC OF NIGHT
  • Next, all the bunny needs is patience, a little tender loving care and a few choice spices.
  • Try not to let impatience take over. The Sun
  • You have to have such a lot of patience when you're dealing with kids.
  • All that is required is patience, as these beautiful, shimmering homages to the Cocteau Twins and Bola unfold at their own pace, in their own time, revealing secrets upon repeated listening.
  • Making your new business successful requires luck, patience, and application.
  • Two days later, he told naval commanders that there was ‘a limit to our patience’.
  • This sort of work demands great patience.
  • To travel through the world it is necessary to have the mouth of hog, the legs of a stag, the eyes of a falcon, the ears of an ass, shoulders of a camel, and the face of an ape, and overplus, a satchel full of money and patience
  • Thank you for your hard work and patience on this holiday season.
  • He is 18 and has time on his side, but as we have seen in the intemperance of his play, patience is not one of his virtues.
  • You think faster than the people around you but don't let impatience jinx a work project. The Sun
  • He was impressed by the extraordinary hardihood and patience with which these men bear their wounds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Henry was nineteen years old, bull-necked, stocky and freckled, a man of electric energy and ferocious impatience, compelling charm and an ungovernable temper.
  • Ireland's politicians to work together is exhausting the patience of those who voted for the peace accord. Times, Sunday Times
  • Stoicism had first been brought over by Greek teachers as a possible guide, but the Roman, now trained by his extraordinary career in world politics to think in terms of experience, could have but little patience with a metaphysical system that constantly took refuge in a faith in aprioristic logic which had already been successfully challenged by two centuries of skeptics. Vergil
  • The long-suffering djinni is growing weak and vulnerable from too much time in this world, and his patience is nearing its end. Ptolemy's Gate: Summary and book reviews of Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud.
  • Their helpers are gifted with amazing powers of patience.
  • Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere. Barack Obama 
  • We must have the patience to continue to work until we will find a peaceful solution.
  • The captain of Wales requires the patience of a saint to cope with the demands of the populace of a country besotted by rugby. Times, Sunday Times
  • May's patience has snapped much earlier than that of her predecessors. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians. 
  • Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?
  • It takes a lot of patience to school a dog/horse.
  • A telephone operator needs the patience to sit for a long time.
  • He may be fat, but he is not soft, not stupid, not lazy, he knows his business and he probably doesn't have patience for idiocy.
  • But public patience has been exhausted by its economic travails. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her tone implied that her patience was limited.
  • Love isn't something natural. Rather it requires discipline, concentration, patience, faith, and the overcoming of narcissism. It isn't a feeling, it is a practice. Erich Fromm 
  • I heard he'd been pressuring John for an earldom, and I think John finally ran out of patience. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • Whatever it is, they say it hundreds of times an hour with endless patience and cheerfulness.
  • 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.
  • Patience is the single most important quality needed for this job.
  • Impatience manifesting in rudeness or shortness is symptomatic of a rhythm problem.
  • Over a week of seemingly endless calls, patience quickly wore thin. Times, Sunday Times
  • Kye, aye, it is not woj th while to lofe line with ihis impitnaf-mn;, Ha\ e patience, whilft this man ancT ci llourfe the point fairher, f. .r the fike of Tender - fcieu'ie, who Teems iL. ggcred at his firfl words, The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come ..
  • There is considerable impatience with the slow pace of political change.
  • However, not only the martyrs but also the confessors bore their tribulations and infirmities with great patience, and have to this day.
  • During the campaign, the political leadership showed considerable impatience to get the thing over with. Times, Sunday Times
  • It takes a bit of patience to do this, because if you don't plan this out right, you won't be able to properly reseat your motherboard into the stand-offs.
  • Use patience, a very sharp carving knife, and lots of red wine for your guests.
  • Goyor sarongs like many other conventionally made woven textiles, need plenty of time and patience in the making.
  • Standard paper requires patience and extra care when hanging so it does not get damaged.
  • Blacks harpoon dugong as they do turtle, but the sport demands greater patience and dexterity, for the dugong is a wary animal and shy, to be approached only with the exercise of artful caution. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
  • Skill comes only with practice, patience and persistence.
  • We thank all riders for their patience and forbearance.
  • Their current position in the table is a testament to the kind of hard work, patience and stability that is very rare in football nowadays.
  • The secrets to both skills are patience, observation and attention to detail, he said.
  • Teaching children with special needs requires patience and understanding.
  • Director Jo Ward maintained her faith in her cast and performances all round were applaudable as, indeed, was Jo's choice of play and her patience.
  • Oh, sure, it's not quite the funfest that next week's return of Donovan McNabb to Philly next week will be, but patience, patience, cart belongs after the horse, etc. NFL Week 3 live: Expect Braylon Edwards to play 'a significant amount'

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