IMPATIENT in a Sentence

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224 example sentences for IMPATIENT, such as:

1. He bit back a sigh of impatience.
2. He cast aside the newspaper impatiently.
3. A note of impatience had entered his voice.
4. He gave another impatient glance at his watch.
5. Lily met this query with an impatient gesture.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPATIENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
impatient
 a.  easily annoyed by someone's mistakes or because don't want to wait
 a.  wanting something to happen as soon as possible
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Ellen protested but Charles pleaded with new-found eloquence, for he was impatient to be off to South Carolina to join Wade Hampton's Legion, and Gerald sided with the two young people.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
2  Of a sudden, the oft-told family tales to which she had listened since babyhood, listened half-bored, impatient and but partly comprehending, were crystal clear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  Miss Bart made an impatient movement, but suppressed the words which seemed about to accompany it.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
4  Gathering up her skirts, she drew aside with an impatient gesture; and as she did so she had the odd sensation of having already found herself in the same situation but in different surroundings.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 9
5  Lily met this query with an impatient gesture.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
6  Miss Bart accepted the cup of tea, but put back the cushion with an impatient hand.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
7  I get so dog-gone impatient with people that can't stand the gaff.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
8  The gravity of the people who stood apart and talked made her the more impatient for frolic.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
9  Outside the window, beyond the fly-screen that was opaque with dust and cottonwood lint, Main Street was hushed except for the impatient throb of a standing motor car.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 113. The Forge.
11  He seemed conscious of possessing a keener power of enjoyment than other people; his quick recognitions made him frantically impatient of deliberate judgments.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
12  Heyward could distinguish the impatient gesture of the scout, through the increasing shadows of the evening, and he moved in his footsteps, swiftly, toward the place where he had left the remainder of the party.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 5
13  But the cry of "La Longue Carabine" was renewed the instant the impatient savages perceived that the short dialogue was ended.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
14  After an impatient and breathless pause, a plunge was heard in the water, and it was immediately followed by the report of another rifle.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
15  The impatient Duncan now made several hasty and desperate propositions to attempt the release of the sisters.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
Example Sentence:
1  He gave another impatient glance at his watch.
2  An impatient driver behind me sounded his horn.
3  The big clubs are becoming increasingly impatient at the rate of progress.
4  Sarah was becoming increasingly impatient at their lack of interest.
5  'No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: 'explanations take such a dreadful time.'
6  Lawmakers on both sides of the partisan aisle are growing increasingly impatient with website snafus that they say are frustrating the public and adding to taxpayer costs.
7  He bit back a sigh of impatience.
8  A note of impatience had entered his voice.
9  There was impatience over the slowness of reform.
10  He tried to explain to her, but she brushed him off impatiently.
11  He cast aside the newspaper impatiently.
12  She drummed her fingers impatiently on the table.
13  Waiting impatiently in line to see Santa Claus, even the best-behaved children grow restive and start to fidget.
14  But the Mouse only shook its head impatiently, and walked a little quicker.