Examples of impatience in a Sentence
the child's impatience for Christmas morning is engaging
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The Iranians are banking on American impatience stoked by partisan zealousness.
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Gil Troy, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
Every two years, elite athletes compete in the Olympics, biennial plants — like carrots and onions — produce seeds and people across America look on with consternation and mounting impatience as California counts its election ballots.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
The characters are precisely strange, interestingly fumbling, and share with Days and Nights’s protagonists an anxious impatience and confusion.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
This is ultimately a war between a democracy’s impatience and a theocracy’s ruthless endurance.
—Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
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Gil Troy, New York Daily News, 29 Mar. 2026
Every two years, elite athletes compete in the Olympics, biennial plants — like carrots and onions — produce seeds and people across America look on with consternation and mounting impatience as California counts its election ballots.
—Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
The characters are precisely strange, interestingly fumbling, and share with Days and Nights’s protagonists an anxious impatience and confusion.
—James Folta, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
This is ultimately a war between a democracy’s impatience and a theocracy’s ruthless endurance.
—Karim Sadjadpour, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
See All Example Sentences for impatience
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“Impatience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impatience. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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impatience
noun
im·pa·tience
(ˈ)im-ˈpā-shən(t)s 
1
: lack of patience
2
: restless or eager desire
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