impatience
Example Sentences
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The US President has previously signalled his impatience with the lack of swift progress in solving the four-year conflict.
From BBC
The answer isn’t to abolish heritage months out of impatience or indifference.
He took my impatience in stride and spoke of plans for me to meet his younger brother soon.
From Los Angeles Times
During the campaign, Wine embodied the energy and impatience of Uganda's youth, while Museveni cast himself as the seasoned patriarch, the guarantor of stability.
From BBC
The rosary presupposes our boredom, propensity to distraction, and impatience with dull routine and attempts to transmute these failings into the virtues of faith, hope and charity.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
