impatience
Example Sentences
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They outlasted the Prince of Impatience, and he moved on.
From Salon • May 14, 2025
My fear faded quickly: Impatience, it turns out, is an antidote to fear, and my hosts spent an unfathomably long time processing my arrival.
From Slate • Apr. 27, 2025
"Impatience is growing with member states," they said.
From Reuters • Oct. 16, 2022
Impatience, fear and fatigue set in as soldiers describe a military in disarray.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2022
“Ackkk, a wonderful, miserable age. Not a boy, not a teenager. Impatience but timidity too. Emotional incontinence.”
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Vocabulary lists containing impatience
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