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Example sentences for "patient"

Lexicographically close words:
pathway; pathways; pati; patience; patiens; patientia; patientlie; patiently; patients; patina
  1. He tells us how, having done his part, by earnest, and patient study, he trusted to God to give to his prepared mind its fitting expression, and speech.

  2. But the patient stranger laid his hand upon my arm, and said, ‘Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

  3. James Weale, then resident at Bruges, began that long series of patient investigations into the history of Netherlandish art which was destined to earn so rich a harvest.

  4. We are told by a contemporary chronicler that his illness was a quartan, which became a putrid fever, but that he bore it with patient and pious resignation, supported by the aids of religion.

  5. However, he took a knife and opened the tumour, and out flew a canary, the patient beginning to recover from that hour.

  6. Hua will administer a dose of hashish, under the influence of which the patient becomes as it were intoxicated with wine.

  7. It is hoped, however, that by the time the end of this chapter is reached, some glimmering of the meaning of Tao may have reached the minds of those who have been patient enough to follow the argument.

  8. It is a foolish thing to have the better of the patient in a dispute.

  9. Many other Poems and Epigrams in that chambers patient alablaster inclosure (which her melting eies long sithence had softned) were curiously ingraued.

  10. Seldome doe they proue patient martyrs who are punisht vniustly.

  11. I pray that the reward of your long and patient toil may be worthy of you.

  12. Is it not your place to be patient with them?

  13. He spoke in a tone of gentle pathos, with the resigned and patient air of one who feels the burden of solitude and the sense of miscomprehension.

  14. I have loved and have been deceived in love,--and that kind of thing often turns the most patient Griselda into an exceptionally fierce tiger-cat!

  15. She passed away uncomforted after a long life of patient loneliness and sorrow--for she was faithful to the last, ever faithful!

  16. It will be nothing but an advantage to you,--for you will obtain a patient hearing, and the priceless boon of the Papal benediction!

  17. She should also be capable of exercising daintiness and artistic skill in serving, so that the appearance of the food may tempt the patient to eat it.

  18. The doll may also be used to illustrate the method of giving a patient a bath in bed and of changing the body clothing, if such information is desired.

  19. They may now be shown that, in sickness, the responsibility of the choice of food is transferred from the patient to the doctor or nurse.

  20. Turn the patient back to the opposite side, on the clean sheet, pull out the soiled sheet, and tuck the clean one smoothly in place.

  21. Pin the clean clothes at the head of the bed or get the patient to hold them.

  22. A doll and doll's bed may be used to teach bed making and the changing of bed-clothing while the patient is in bed.

  23. Turn the patient over on the side away from you and fold the soiled sheet in flat folds close to the body.

  24. When changing the sheets with the patient in bed, work as deftly and quietly as possible.

  25. And where shall we look for the patient and persevering endurance of Parry, of Franklin, and of Back, in the northern regions of eternal snow?

  26. All three now commenced blowing, spitting, making curious gurgling kinds of noises, waving their green bunches of reeds, and pressing forcibly upon the diseased leg to make the patient give audible indications of the evil spirit leaving him.

  27. Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.

  28. The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

  29. The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

  30. We exhort you, brothers, admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, support the weak, be patient toward all.

  31. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.

  32. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

  33. Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy.

  34. Joan had occasionally accompanied her in her walks, but found them too apt to be filled with talk about her patient, couched in such laudatory language that Joan suspected the patient of having taken her into his confidence.

  35. You have all been very patient with me, and I love you all dearly, but I shall never come to think that it is a proper life for a man to spend all his days in bringing up birds for other people to kill.

  36. She soothed him, helped him to tell his story, was patient and loving with him, while all the time almost insupportably anxious to come to the end of it, and know the best or the worst.

  37. He met his death with patient dignity, having, indeed, disastrously shared the enthusiasms of his age, but taken no share in its crimes.

  38. The pulse is accelerated some 6 to 12 beats a minute, the respiration number rises, and the patient is thrown into a profuse perspiration.

  39. Besides the particular disease, the idiosyncrasy of the patient must be considered, the same morbid condition in different people requiring very different treatment.

  40. This is mixed with the hot mineral water until the bath has the desired consistency, the effect on the patient being in almost direct proportion to the density.

  41. Anon, as patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclos'd, His silence will sit drooping.

  42. Here he found the patient laid upon a sofa in the room where she had been found, and surrounded by a mob of terrified and half-dressed servants.

  43. At length the patient sank into the coma of exhaustion, and Dr.

  44. He applied the most powerful of his restoratives and administered a sharp current from the battery, and, after a considerable time, was rewarded by seeing the patient open her eyes--but only to shut them again immediately.

  45. Twice during that month he managed, on different pretexts, to get up to London and visit his wife, whom he found as patient as was possible under the circumstances, but anything but happy.

  46. How good and patient you have been to me!

  47. Had it not been for this nursing, it is very certain that her patient would have joined his forefathers in the Bratham churchyard.

  48. No man could have for very long remained obdurate to such beauty and such patient devotion, and it is not wonderful that he grew in a way to love her.

  49. I should indeed be silly if, after ten years' patient work under such a scholar as Mr. Fraser, I did not know some classics and mathematics.

  50. It will never do to see a new patient in this coat.

  51. My medical authority says, that no man could be flayed alive: and that the most skilful operator could not remove the skin of one arm from the elbow to the wrist, before the patient would die from the shock to his system.

  52. He only needed a quick glance at his patient to perceive how hopeless was his condition.

  53. Should the poor patient be deprived of the prescribed draught?

  54. Oh, I have been patient and have not said a word; but do you think I did not know?

  55. What I particularly want you to do just now is to be gentle and patient with your cousin; you must remember that she has never had your advantages.

  56. In the bedroom occupied by the patient the "safe-waste" from a stationary basin was carried into the soil-pipe, constituting a direct inlet from the cesspool.

  57. The patient was wrapped up quickly by one of the hospital nurses, and two orderlies bore her away.

  58. The low voices of doctor and patient did not carry beyond the corridor; but at a step Miss Sterling bent forward.

  59. Be patient for a few days, and I will hurry up things as fast as practicable.

  60. She knows Miss Twining needs a doctor; but, of course, he would ask first thing what brought this on, and she couldn't make the patient lie it out.

  61. The patient will be glad to see you," she added, addressing the Doctor.

  62. At one moment the patient was extended at full length with her body arched forward in a state of opisthotonos.

  63. The first is that of a poor young girl who was dreadfully burnt by lying in a hammock when it caught fire: "She seemed a very meek and patient child, and her look of gratitude for our sympathy was most affecting.

  64. The patient relates: "I have also noticed that when my affections are aroused, they counteract animal passion.

  65. And it should be noted that the love felt by the patient toward this person is a romantic, ecstatic, but entirely 'Platonic' affection.

  66. OF all gracious gifts that the patient science of hybridists has bestowed on rose-lovers, the development of the Hybrid Tea is perhaps the greatest.

  67. I claimed his patient as my wife; I expressed myself obliged by his care, and begged his acceptance of a further remuneration, which I tendered, and which was eagerly accepted.

  68. But the time had come when the long and patient effort of the once despised militiaman had won deserved recognition.

  69. Most of them are capable of fanning or even reading aloud to a patient without danger of over-exciting him.

  70. When, not five minutes after the doctor peeped at him, the voice of the captain was heard booming from the bridge just over the patient's pillowed head, it developed that the patient was wide awake.

  71. The Sacramento had been ordered away, and the little patient had to be brought ashore.

  72. He was measurably happy in the privilege of calling every day to ask for her, but speedily realized the poverty of Oriental marts in the means wherewith to convey to the fair patient some tangible token of his constant devotion.

  73. At first the surgeon said no, whereupon his patient began to get worse.

  74. The instant the doctor began to speak the patient checked him and bent his ear to the sound of soft voices and laughter from without.

  75. Another popular method was to fashion a waxen figure of the patient and prevail upon the disease demon to enter it.

  76. A doctor's hands were cut off if he opened a wound with a metal knife and his patient afterwards died, or if a man lost his eye as the result of an operation.

  77. This display of knowledge compelled the worm to listen, and no doubt the patient was able to indicate to what degree it gave evidence of its agitated mind.

  78. When a patient was wasted with disease, growing thinner and weaker and more bloodless day by day, it was believed that a merciless vampire was sucking his veins and devouring his flesh.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patient" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accepting; arthritic; assiduous; benevolent; bovine; case; charitable; compassionate; conciliatory; constant; consumptive; continuing; diligent; disciplined; dispassionate; dogged; dull; dyspeptic; easy; easygoing; enduring; epileptic; faithful; forbearing; forgiving; generous; gentle; humane; immutable; impassive; imperturbable; inalterable; incurable; indefatigable; indomitable; indulgent; industrious; inmate; insistent; invalid; invincible; kind; lasting; lax; lenient; loyal; magnanimous; meek; merciful; mild; moderate; obstinate; passive; patient; permanent; persevering; persistent; pertinacious; philosophical; plodding; plugging; preoccupied; rapt; relentless; resolute; rheumatic; sedulous; sleepless; soft; sparing; spastic; stable; steadfast; steady; stodgy; stolid; stubborn; subject; sufferer; tenacious; tender; tireless; tolerant; unconquerable; undaunted; understanding; unfailing; unfaltering; unflagging; unflinching; uninterrupted; unrelenting; unremitting; unswerving; untiring; unwavering; unwearied; valetudinarian