impatience

Example Sentences

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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 The Wall Street Journal

Even if the pace of development accelerated last year, particularly on the hardware side, Rokseth expressed a degree of impatience about innovation.

From Barron's

Many cooking problems can be traced not to a lack of skill, but to impatience.

From Salon