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patience English

Meaning patience meaning

What does patience mean?
Definitions in simple English

patience

If someone has patience, they can wait without feeling upset. Andrew has so much patience with the children; I just get so angry with them.

patience

good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence (= solitaire) a card game played by one person

Synonyms patience synonyms

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Topics patience topics

What do people use patience to talk about?

Examples patience examples

How do I use patience in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Patience is a virtue.
I'm starting to lose my patience with you.
It takes patience to do this.
My patience is coming to an end.
I have no more patience.
My patience has its limits.
You had better not try Tom's patience.
Don't lose patience.
I am losing my patience with you.
Patience is essential for a teacher.
Teaching asks for a lot of patience.
My patience has come to the breaking point.
Mastering a foreign language involves a lot of patience.
Learning English requires patience.
With a little more patience, she would have succeeded.
With a little more patience, you could have succeeded.
You could have solved this puzzle with a little more patience.
Mastering a foreign language calls for patience.
With a little more patience, you would have succeeded.
Have patience for another day or two.
This sort of work calls for great patience.
This sort of work calls for a lot of patience.
Thank you for your patience.
Because a man whose manners are as bad as yours must try everyone's patience.
Children sometimes lack patience.
My patience is worn out.

Movie subtitles

Your patience will not be put to the test.
I won't test your patience any longer.
Patience, patience.
Patience.
Thank you so much for your patience.
Would you have patience?
Trying to teach me a lesson in patience, Sir Joseph?
SIR, YOU TRY MY PATIENCE.
Patience. I think you'll see.
Have patience, we'll be all right.
I want to thank you for your patience and your consideration. The whole thing's beyond me.
But if you could know these people as I know them. Their patience, loyalty, goodness.
You know better where to start but our patience is at its end, Prince!
Just have some patience with me!
You know, there are times when you try my patience.
You try my patience.
Energetic. resourceful. and with any amount of patience.
Fortunately, heavenly patience has no limit.
A little patience, Mrs. Lawrence, and I think you'll see.
Now, a little patience, sir.
A game of patience? - Exactly.
Are you tantalizing me? To test my patience?
Patience?
So. You were foolish enough to mistake my kindness for weakness. My patience for blindness.
If you have patience.
Patience, woman, patience.
Their patience, loyalty, goodness.
Give me patience.
Patience. Don't stand there yappering, woman.

News and current affairs

Above all, we need to show patience with the new governments of the countries we hope to see evolving toward democracy, and avoid the tendency to expect instant gratification.
DENVER - Patience might be a virtue, but not necessarily when it comes to American foreign policy.
That task requires patience and strategic perseverance.
A lot of patience will be needed but now at least the political will to confront Israel's domestic divide, and its long divide with the Palestinians, is there.
Admittedly, this process will take time and patience.
Caution and patience might not be his best advisors.
But, even if the ECB has limitless patience, the rest of the world does not.
Time is needed, she says, to build a state and construct a democracy - time and a mixture of pragmatism and faith, of patience and audacity, of respect for others and regard for oneself.
It will require a sustained effort and enormous patience, but could be hugely beneficial to US strategic interests.
But this will take time and patience - and it will need to be accompanied by policy changes on Iraq, Palestine-Israel, and the regional economy.
He is not naive, and knows that patience, compromise, and a policy of small steps are often needed.
While unequivocally commending America's tough stance in pressuring Iraq, Japan should not hesitate to deliver a clear message to the US: exercise patience to avoid war.
His patience, civility, and politics of reconciliation provided me a better example of democracy and good governance than any civics class could have done.
No sane politician will commit to another decade of structural reforms that will test the patience of ordinary Latin Americans beyond the limits of electoral survival.
It is up to the chastened nations of Western Europe, which broadly share American values but have learned something about political patience, to rein in the American fantasy of re-making the world in its own image.
The patience even of free traders will wear thin in 2010.
And now the Kingdom has made it clear that it has reached the limits of its patience.
This task requires time, patience, hard work, and luck.
It requires patience, development of models, and willingness to undertake long-term studies.
Only when Iran's voters lost patience with Ahmadinejad's incompetence and elected Hassan Rouhani in 2013 could the Islamic Revolution be said to be over.
After five years of global financial-sector scandals on a grand scale, patience is wearing thin.
The less determination the West demonstrates in Syria, the more the Iranians become convinced that they can play with the international community's nerves and patience indefinitely.
Russian leaders (as do ordinary Russians) like drama; they lack patience.
Not surprisingly, given the EU authorities' obvious inability to end the malaise, many member states are losing patience with austerity.
Otherwise, not only will Europe's global political ambitions become untenable, but its allies on the other side of the Atlantic will lose patience with Europeans' refusal to shoulder their share of the security burden.
Dealing with Ukraine will take patience and perseverance, but there is too much at stake to choose any other path.
Its enforcers were beyond the civilized pale, and the world's patience with them had run out.

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