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

I think the bigger issue was that his enormous gifts left many admirers waiting impatiently for his American stage masterpiece, which never quite came together.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 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

"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

Francis listened attentively for some minutes, looking at the floor and nodding; after a while he began to bob his foot up and down impatiently.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt