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

Then, at his busiest, with a wife and three children impatiently waiting at home, he wheedled Mel Brooks for a cameo in “Young Frankenstein.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 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

"We have been waiting for this day impatiently," Mai Khader Abdul Ghani, whose son, Moatasem Billah Rami Nabil Sammour, has a rare autoimmune disease, told BBC Arabic's Gaza Today.

From BBC • Feb. 1, 2025

Dodger tilted his face and snorted impatiently at her, as if to say, What are you doing down there on the ground?

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz