How to Use impatient in a Sentence

impatient

adjective
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  • She was impatient to leave.
  • Customers have grown impatient with the repeated delays.
  • After months of delays, customers are becoming impatient.
  • Many of us are itchy and impatient to return to the desert.
    — Jim Dobson, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • There might be a line to check in, to the annoyance of some more impatient patrons.
    — Lucas Kwan Peterson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • As the visit dragged on, Huy began to grow tired and impatient with having them in the house.
    — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2023
  • At the bottom the bus snorted out a cloud of impatient exhaust.
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper's Magazine, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Dewy children close in around me on all sides, impatient for their turn at the mirror.
    — Heather Havrilesky, New York Times, 12 May 2023
  • It’s people like Roof who’ve grown impatient waiting for the war.
    — Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022
  • What is the proper response to these rude and impatient co-workers?
    — Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 26 July 2023
  • His zeal for hitting has led him to be impatient and undisciplined at the plate at times.
    — Abraham Nudelstejer, Dallas News, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Since Aries tends to be impatient, an Aries Moon may be prone to knee-jerk reactions.
    — Women's Health, 12 May 2023
  • So here is a list of a few things that can feed your impatient gardener gene and set up your garden for a great 2023.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 3 Mar. 2023
  • His downfall is often the same as his play-caller, Ryan Day, in that both can, at times, get impatient and force things down the field.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Rumors persist that Colorado has grown impatient and is itching to jump to the Big 12.
    — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 July 2023
  • Like small kids, the T-Rex is a bit impatient and impulsive and more than often messes things up.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 22 Sep. 2022
  • The loading times could be slow enough to knock your search rankings lower and bounce people away from your page who are impatient.
    — Dallas News, 14 Dec. 2022
  • And at the time, officers at the scene were growing impatient with the ongoing delay.
    — David K. Li, NBC News, 10 June 2022
  • Officers spoke with him for 10 minutes from the ground below, but then grew impatient and entered the home through an open back door, the suit says.
    — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2023
  • Hipgnosis stock trades at a discount of nearly a half to NAV, and investors have been impatient for signs of growth.
    — Julie Steinberg, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Garrett also sensed the duo grew impatient during the two years the show was in development.
    — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2023
  • In the meantime, impatient Android phone owners can download an app for that.
    — Allison Johnson, The Verge, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Parents are tired and impatient; their dreams were shipwrecked.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Addams persona, with her flat affect and impatient sarcasm, tends to mask a heart of gold in her characters, but that’s not the case here.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Before the show starts, impatient concert-goers doodle on the steamy glass walls with their fingers.
    — Lina Abascal, Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Fedun, who will spend some extra time in the United States for dental work, comes across as focused — and impatient.
    — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2022
  • History tells us Henry will grow impatient if the Sox continue to lose and make changes.
    — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Finally, an impatient, drunk man named Bryant Hudson killed Carter with a shotgun—the first fatality of the week but far from the last.
    — Craig Pittman, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Afraid and impatient, Lorraine stopped her pacing abruptly, pulled out the letter, and tore open the envelope.
    — Tessa Hadley, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • While the impatient diners (rarely seen) demand service, the line cooks shift into battle mode.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024

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