impatiently

Example Sentences

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Investors will be looking impatiently at the strategy when Microsoft reports quarterly results next Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

With the match still in the balance, British and Irish Lions duo Henry Pollock and Tom Curry both stood with their hands on their hips, impatiently waiting to enter the Test arena.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

That weekend, I noticed myself impatiently tugging at Otto’s leash on his morning walk despite the fact that it was the first nice Saturday we’d had in weeks and we had nowhere else to be.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2025

He successfully completed his three normal rounds of batting practice “without thinking about the fracture,” he added, before impatiently returning to the dugout for one last night as a spectator.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2024

I cursed the laziness of the servants that they should lie abed at such an hour—for it was now ten o’clock—and so rang and knocked again, but more impatiently, but still without response.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker