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patiently

adverb as in suffering without complaint

adverb as in continuing without impatience

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Hotline shows you something very moving about watching a teacher patiently explaining a math problem down the phone.

He patiently explains that overheating prisoners is not just a human-rights issue.

My mother removed them patiently while Grace cackled, thrilled that her prank had been a success.

His faith in a higher power helped his fear subside as he patiently waited to be rescued.

After her first audible prompt, which came shortly after the interval, the audience sat patiently.

Beginning with single twigs and working over them patiently she at length painted whole trees, and later animals.

Wait patiently until your side move over from the Opposition to the Government benches.

The voice of duty called her to the kitchen, where her cook patiently awaited her inevitable, and always painful, audience.

The gentleman inclines his head lower, smiles, and waits patiently for a second or two.

Nevertheless, he listened patiently for the thousandth time to the E flat concerto, as Steiniger played it.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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