Sentence examples for test patience from inspiring English sources

The West has been frustrated by Mr. Milosevic's pattern of using just enough force to test patience, then backing off.

The Duke University team designed two games - one to test patience and the other assessing risk-taking.

Whereas all the "gay" ingredients are inextricable from his two-part achievement, the "fantasia" dollops -- especially the scene in a heaven Prior Walter believes he's visiting -- don't so much strain credulity as test patience.

Garcia's record stood as players like Garcia and Griffey left and the Mariners' futility tested patience.

The implicit optimism of such scenes is given the lie by other group tableaux in which the cast stands frozen in grim postures of sorely tested patience.

Jostles, pushes and pokes tests patience.

(tests Patience) Call their cellphone and tell them to look in the mail.

187 Tests Patience : Immigration: Negative passions stirred by legal delays raise questions about concepts of judicial review and majority versus minority rights.

A tale that takes little more than 90 minutes to watch on film requires more than 21/2 hours in the theater, testing patience and derrieres.

They're testing boundaries and testing your patience.

It was just a test of patience.