Sentence examples for patience hours from inspiring English sources

TEL AVIV — The children in the kindergarten class were taking their new celebrity status in stride on Monday, singing a Hebrew song about patience hours after a movie about their school, Bialik-Rogozin in south Tel Aviv, won the Academy Award for best short documentary in Los Angeles.

Apple blossoms floated in the warm sunshine; people who had waited with great patience for hours filed past the coffin in silence; police carried boxes of tissues for those who stopped to cry afterwards.

Ice fishing requires a steady hand, patience, skill and hours of perseverance.

Hilmar Kopper, chairman of the supervisory board of DaimlerChrysler, lost his patience about five hours into the company's annual shareholder meeting.

On a porch under a huge ANC flag the two anti-apartheid clerics, the Reverend Frank Chikane and the Reverend Allan Boesak, had urged patience as the hours passed.

Today's adolescents are more interested in the instant gratification of video games, cellular phones and personal computers, not a pastime that rewards patience and long hours spent with glue fumes and Xacto knives.

If Mr. Kotis's potboiler does nothing else — and it certainly doesn't do much other than try the patience for two hours — it at least takes back the stage, for a spell, for the violent antics of American-born-and-bred louts and buffoons.

This style can try the patience over two hours; at two-and-a-half, you might think Rajini doomed, but Ponram has a secret comic weapon: a hyper-frenetic approach that extends from the leading man's machine-gun delivery to his agitated back-and-forths with best bud Thotathree (Soori) and beyond.

What she could do best — her own daughters marvelled at it, who else would have the patience — was sit for hours and hours at a time with a colicky baby over her shoulder or a worn-out toddler on her knee and talk or sing.

It's a patience-testing two hours long.

This may take a few minutes or it may take an hour; patience is essential!