Use patiently in a sentence
Sentences starting with patiently
- Patiently and earnestly, with their stiff old fingers, they were trying to forge the required note. [5]
- Patiently awaiting a more fitting season, he therefore contented himself with questioning him carelessly about the foe and his castles. [10]
Sentences ending with patiently
- Do you believe you could bear that patiently? [7]
- When I went to Berlin in winter, harder work, many friends, and especially my Polish fellow-student, Mieczyslaw helped me bear my burden patiently. [10]
- If, for the sake of those to whom he owed his best possession, he must surrender the rest, it was his duty to bear fate patiently. [10]
- I can wait patiently--ever so patiently. [5]
- There was one of those little engravings opposite, which bore the familiar name of "T. Uwins," as I remember it, and under it the words "Mr. Partridge bore all this patiently. [6]
- The naturalist collects many bugs and reptiles and butterflies and studies their ways a long time patiently. [5]
- So the superior manito decrees, and I must bear all patiently. [5]
- Remember the supreme, loving hand whence it came, and you will bear it patiently. [10]
- Therefore bear thy lot patiently. [10]
- But he bore it all patiently. [5]
Short sentences using patiently
- We've patiently waited. [13]
More example sentences with the word patiently in them
- Arrived in New York, Ed found his way to Commodore Vanderbilt's business quarters, and was ushered into a large anteroom, where a score of people were patiently awaiting their turn for a two-minute interview with the millionaire in his private office. [5]
- How admiringly they would gaze up at him in his high seat as he gloved himself with lingering deliberation, while some happy hostler held the bunch of reins aloft, and waited patiently for him to take it! [5]
- The only thing which we old folks do not willingly relinquish is personal comfort, and I thank you for enduring annoyances so patiently for the sake of securing mine.--It is a terrific summer! [10]
- Prayer means that we desire to, and will, walk in the light so far as we receive it, even though with bleeding footsteps, and waiting patiently on the Lord, will leave our real desires to be rewarded by Him. [5]
- But how great was his surprise, upon opening his door one morning, some days later, to find the grateful poodle patiently waiting there, and in its company another stray dog, one of whose legs, by some accident, had been broken. [5]
- Beaton knew she wanted to talk with him about something else; but he waited patiently to let her play her comedy out. [8]
- Count Luigi was waiting, too; but not patiently, rumor said. [5]
- He waited patiently until it was over. [9]
- By her references to what this and that and the other person had told her, I perceived that she had been diligently questioning those crowds of visiting strangers, and that out of them she had patiently dug all this mass of invaluable knowledge. [5]
- Are you disposed to submit patiently to the blow struck at you and at your parent's worthy memory by this restless old man, who hates you as he did your father before you? [10]
- Her mind, sensitive to new ideas, had been keenly stimulated as she listened to Siddons, who began patiently to dwell once more on the ill effect of the conditions he had discovered on the welfare of the entire community. [9]
- If they spoke to him on this, or any other theme--save one--he would hear them patiently for awhile, then turn away, and go on seeking as before. [12]
- The best way to deal with the striped bug is to sit down by the hills, and patiently watch for him. [4]
- It was useless to attempt to disperse it with the assurance that Father Damon was better; it patiently waited to see for itself. [4]
- Her brain is tired half the time, and she is too nervous to listen patiently to what a quieter person would like well enough, or at least would not be annoyed by. [6]
- In antique Roman times it was the custom of the Deity to try to conceal His intentions in the entrails of birds, and this was patiently and hopefully continued century after century, although the attempted concealment never succeeded, in a single recorded instance. [5]
- He waited patiently till the latter raised his bearded face and greeted him with friendly dignity. [10]
- The subject was thoroughly and patiently examined by that justly respected magistrate, and although the sum awarded to the claimants may not have been as large as they expected there is no reason to distrust the wisdom of His Majesty's decision. [7]
- I must open this view of the case to my father by degrees; and, meanwhile, wait patiently till I see how affairs are likely to turn. [14]
- I have conned them well, studied them patiently and thoroughly. [5]
- We frequently selected the trout we wanted, and rested the bait patiently and persistently on the end of his nose at a depth of eighty feet, but he would only shake it off with an annoyed manner, and shift his position. [5]
- We hunted for the spring everywhere, traversing the full length of the island (two or three miles), and crossing it twice--climbing ash-hills patiently, and then sliding down the other side in a sitting posture, plowing up smothering volumes of gray dust. [5]
- He leans over the shoulder of Philip the Second at his writing-table, as the King spells patiently out, with cipher-key in hand, the most concealed hieroglyphics of Parma, or Guise, or Mendoza. [6]
- He examined all the papers in detail, and whenever there seemed anything like a hitch, either in the papers or my statement, he would go back and take up the thread and follow it patiently out to an intelligent and satisfactory result. [5]
- Each saw that the other had been in long conflict with some trial; for their voices were low and tender, as patiently borne sorrow and humbly uttered prayers make every human voice. [6]
- Life is like that, Myrtle, one stitch at a time, taken patiently, and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery. [6]
- It was evident that she had suffered much in the course of her life, but had taken it patiently and all for the best. [10]
- Still he had stayed on, going here and there, mostly among the men themselves, talking to them in little groups, arguing simply with them, patiently dealing with facts and figures, quietly showing them the economic injustice which lay behind their full demands, and suggesting compromises. [11]
- The fish were so wanting in taste as to disdain the sweet bait, but my early awakened love of sport kept me patiently a long time in the same spot, which was undoubtedly more agreeable to my mother than the bait was to the salmon. [10]
- She had the sense to shun the doctor; to lie down in some safe place, and patiently wait for her leg to heal. [4]
- However, I had seen him nurse a sick man himself and put up patiently with the inconveniences of the situation, and consequently I was willing that he should have full license now that his own turn had come. [5]
- These silent crowds sat there with their humble bundles and baskets and small household gear about them, and patiently waited--for what? [5]
- It was his reward for a cruel life patiently borne. [5]
- A single individual rarely hired one; either a family took possession of it, or you got in and waited patiently till enough persons had collected for the driver to think it worth while to take his whip and say, "Well, get up! [10]
- He was not quite done yet, however:--there was no end of little plums and spices to be stuck in, here and there; and this work he patiently continued, a few lines a day, with pad and pencil, till far into July, at Mt. [5]
- Listen patiently, and promise that you will not interrupt me. [5]
- Each man waited patiently, tranquilly, in no sort of hurry, till one of us found time to give him a copper, then he bent his head reverently, touched his forehead with his fingers, and went his way. [5]
- But he sat patiently, and waited, and gaped, and yawned, and stretched, and longed for two o'clock to come. [5]
- He had waited patiently, and had reckoned almost to a day when Phips would arrive. [11]
- He nursed me patiently through the dull long weeks, and at last, in January, I was strong enough to go about again. [5]
- She would wait patiently searching for the right term, until it presented itself to her. [14]
- Await your recovery patiently in a quiet place in the pure air, not in the city. [10]
- But if you patiently gazed into the darkness a little while, there was a sure reward for you. [5]
- Young Tom waited patiently for the exhibition to cease, which it did at length in a coughing fit of sheer exhaustion that left his father speechless, if not expressionless, pointing a lean and trembling finger in the direction of a valise on the floor. [9]
- We have waited patiently and faithfully, all these years, and now at last the reward is at hand. [5]
- These patiently and painstakingly accumulated vast acquirements and competences needed but one thing more--opportunity--to convert themselves into triumphal action. [5]
- He waited patiently, on the pretext of business, until Mr. Bradshaw got up and left the office. [6]
- My penalty came on in a strong headache as soon as the Bishop was gone: how thankful I was that it had patiently waited his departure. [14]
- At the bottom of the incline was an immense heap of weathered sandstone all crumbling to dust, but there were no huge rocks as large as houses, such as rested so lightly and frightfully above, waiting patiently and inevitably to crash down. [13]
- In the bowels of the granite mountains she has patiently carved out dozens of vast temples, and made them glorious with sculptured colonnades and stately groups of statuary, and has adorned the eternal walls with noble paintings. [5]
- But she was obliged to wait patiently, for Els, her older sister, would probably soon marry her Wolff, and then it would be her turn to nurse her invalid mother. [10]
- Working patiently, by night, in my desolated home, I made a disguise for myself out of various odds and ends of clothing; in the nearest village I bought a pair of blue goggles. [5]
- The bill would never get to his Excellency now--so people said; would never get beyond that committee who had listened so patiently to the twelve weeks of argument. [9]
- Now, in the name of all the saints, let him continue his life of liberty, and leave the somnambulist to walk over the roofs, and suffer Altrosen, who had worn her colour so patiently, to wed the countess. [10]
- They did not move in their places, but stood patiently waiting for help to come. [5]
- It was for Melissa's sake that, when the high-priest's dwelling was searched by the new magistrate's spies from cellar to garret, she had patiently submitted to her husband's hard words. [10]
- He bore with me patiently for a while. [4]
- Against this Charley made no motion and said no word, but patiently awaited Jo's return. [11]
- Master Gridley waited long and patiently for any answer she might have the force to make. [6]
- From them, the least and the greatest, man can learn to go his way patiently, year by year. [10]
- Hodder strove to keep his feet, sought wisdom to deal patiently with all, though at times he was tried to the uttermost. [9]
- Tom patiently returned it to its place. [5]
- If a friend informs us of a fault, do we listen to the rebuke patiently, and credit what is said? [5]
- How any man, in his right mind or out of it, could sit down and coldly try to persuade anybody to believe it, or listen patiently to it, or, indeed, do anything but scoff at it and deride it, is astonishing. [5]
- But you could if your memory had been patiently and laboriously trained to do that sort of thing mechanically. [5]
- Being the man I am, and speaking, where I do, I feel that in any attempt at an original constitutional argument I should not be and ought not to be listened to patiently. [7]
- When I told him, he said patiently, "Wair good," and made his parting salute, and went out from us to return no more forever. [5]
- I can hear her now calling and calling, "Marse Nick, honey, yo' supper's done got cole," as she searched patiently among the magnolias. [9]
- I was not heard patiently, though I could see that the Governor and the Chevalier were impressed; but Bigot instantly urged the case hotly against me, and the end came very soon. [11]
- Yet, poor devil, he had been patiently studying the part of Hamlet for more than thirty years, and he lived and died in the belief that some day he would be invited to play it! [5]
- You see, I have petted him along patiently, and put his suspicions to sleep. [5]
- That is to have an abiding ideal, and patiently to hold it, in isolation, in defeat, even in an overripe civilization. [4]
- Soon after Hermon had learned from Gras that the stars had risen, he was informed that he must wait patiently for his interview with the Egyptian, as he had been summoned to the capital that very day by a messenger from Proclus. [10]
- I--I could not go to see them first, I am glad to wait patiently until some accident brings me near them. [9]
- His interrogatory gesture gave the very touch of perfection to this attitude, since it proclaimed him to have listened patiently to a charge so preposterous that a less reasonable man would have cut it short. [9]
- I waited patiently for the thought, of which this wink was the blossom, to come to fruit in words. [6]
- We met a few men and a great many ladies in litters; it seemed to me that most of the ladies looked pale and nauseated; their general aspect gave me the idea that they were patiently enduring a horrible suffering. [5]
- Did this drop fall patiently during five thousand years to be ready for this flitting human insect's need? [5]
- He learned to expect this, and after suffering keenly from her disappointment with whatever he did he waited patiently till she forgot her grievance and began to extract what consolation lurks in the irreparable. [8]
- He had reared dragons from the egg, in his laboratory, he had watched over them like a mother, and patiently studied them and experimented upon them while they grew. [5]
- So there the dogs stood, patiently winking and gaping and looking extremely hard at the boiling pot, until Jerry himself appeared, when they all dropped down at once and walked about the room in their natural manner. [12]
- It was a deep and satisfying pleasure to see the sun create the new morning, and gradually, patiently, lovingly, clothe it on with splendor after splendor, and glory after glory, till the miracle was complete. [5]
- Whenever he meets Death he still furiously defies him--but Death patiently waits. [5]
- The men, whom Count Frohlinger had left behind as a guard, waited patiently with the smith for his son's return until noon, then they urged departure, and the party moved forward. [10]
- But he was content to wait patiently for that service, and he wholly trusted her, for there was in him some fine spirit of the antique world. [11]
- Then there are clerks that have no clerkships, and are waiting, and waiting, and waiting for a vacancy--waiting patiently for a chance to help their country out--and while they, are waiting, they only get barely two thousand dollars a year for it. [5]
- He waited patiently by the barred windows until the clerk, who was counting bills, chose to look up at him. [9]
- This morning, during breakfast, the usual assemblage of squalid humanity sat patiently without the charmed circle of the camp and waited for such crumbs as pity might bestow upon their misery. [5]
- We have patiently borne hunger and distress in fighting against the Spaniards and for our Bible, but to struggle against certain death is madness. [10]
- Patiently, but with blighted hope, we broke more sticks and piled them, and once more the Prussian shot them into annihilation. [5]
- Nothing, except to bear patiently whatever he inflicted upon her. [10]
- But death is awful; we must not think patiently, forgivingly of sending any one to their death in the best cause. [8]
- In the passage Austen perceived a chair, and in the chair was seated patiently none other than Mr. Brush Bascom--political Duke of Putnam. [9]
- He looked up as though a little surprised, waited patiently, and went on. [11]
- You can get any man's or woman's secret, whose sphere is circumscribed by your own, if you will only look patiently on them long enough. [6]
- He listened patiently, and when she had finished her entreaty and warnings, took her hand in his, saying: "You have met Herr Marnix von St. Aldegonde and know what the cause of liberty owes him. [10]
- Then she brightened, and waited on and on patiently. [11]
- Rhodopis listened patiently, and smiled the while; at times her smile was bitter, at others it gave assent to his words. [10]
- She could wait, and she succeeded in doing so patiently. [10]
- They hastened there, and going softly to the door, espied him in the attitude of one who waited patiently. [12]
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