How to Use lose patience in a Sentence

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• Team leadership has a good track record for backing its guys, but even saints lose patience.
  — Chelsea Brasted, Axios, 6 Sep. 2024
• If the novel stayed in that lecturing, gloomy zone, it’d be easy to lose patience with it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2026
• Most either have failed or, slow to blossom, have watched the Bruins lose patience and ship them out.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2021
• These moments, however, don’t last long and many investors lose patience waiting for them.
  — Brett Owens, Forbes, 8 Apr. 2021
• If money doesn’t continue to flow faster and faster, some landlords might lose patience and choose to evict tenants instead.
  — Graison Dangor, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2021
• There’s seemingly never a tipping point for the owner to lose patience and overhaul his front office.
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 7 Sep. 2025
• Eventually, Morris would lose patience and order them off his mound.
  — Scott Miller, New York Times, 20 June 2023
• Questions are being raised as to how long Beijing can keep the policy on the road as citizens lose patience.
  — Tara John, CNN, 29 June 2022
• But many colleges in the latter camp have started to lose patience amid the increasing combativeness of some of the protesters.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 8 May 2024
• Some OEMs are starting to lose patience with this behavior from dealerships.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2022
• The trial and error necessary to find effective medication could make the patient lose patience or trust.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024
• The longer the outbreak wears on, the more people lose patience with mask mandates, restrictions on businesses and other rules designed to protect public health.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
• The book’s conclusion—that if something is not done, citizens may lose patience—leaves the reader entirely in the dark about what, if anything, could address these problems.
  — Michael Reid, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
• Lower-income homeowners and renters, on the other hand, could struggle to keep a roof over their heads in the new year as eviction moratoriums expire and lenders and landlords lose patience.
  — Greg Jefferson, ExpressNews.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• The remote workers, including the company’s chief executive, started to lose patience as people in the room talked over one another and made side comments.
  — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• Macron calculated, rightly, that the French eventually lose patience with extended strikes and unrest.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
• Now some lenders are starting to lose patience, brokers and investors say, which could lead to an increase in foreclosures and distressed-property sales in the first half of 2021.
  — Konrad Putzier, WSJ, 2 Jan. 2021
• And absent any official updates from the company, even specialist Samsung commentators are starting to lose patience.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
• With no way to help behavioral health patients -- sometimes the same individuals over and over again -- first responders can start to lose patience, Riley said, and that only compounds the problem.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2021
• As the public and the government lose patience with vaccine-hesitant groups and increase pressure on them to get the shot, the questions surrounding religious exemptions will almost certainly grow.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 21 Sep. 2021
• To enact meaningful reforms and hold to account those responsible for abuses will take time, but a rudderless country whose ordinary people struggle economically will soon lose patience.
  — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 3 Oct. 2024
• Danske, which has lived with eight years of negative rates in its home market of Denmark, is under growing political pressure to improve its business as the regulator and parliament lose patience with the string of scandals.
  — Frances Schwartzkopff, Bloomberg.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• Global Entry membership fees refunded Waiting in line at the security gate can make any traveler lose patience, especially during a busy travel season.
  — Ivana Pino, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022
• Ironically, cracks in the economy have helped drive stocks higher, because the underperforming job market forced the wait-and-see Federal Reserve to lose patience and start its recent rate-cutting campaign.
  — David Goldman, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2025
• Without one, escalation will compound, hardliners will be empowered, mediators will lose patience, and every future concession will get politically harder for both governments to make.
  — Sanam Vakil, Time, 16 July 2026