Collocations for impatience - noun

growing
slight
barely concealed
barely controlled

hint, touch, trace

feel
She felt a growing impatience.

sense
Sensing her impatience, I spoke quickly.

express, show
He was trying hard not to show his impatience.

contain, curb, restrain
She was unable to contain her impatience.

conceal, hide, mask

grow

with impatience
He stamped his feet as he waited with barely concealed impatience for the telephone.

impatience at
He expressed impatience at the slow rate of progress.

impatience for
his impatience for her to return

impatience with
impatience with the slowness of change

a gesture of impatience, a look of impatience
He shook his head in a gesture of impatience.

a sigh of impatience
He bit back a sigh of impatience.

signs of impatience
The children were beginning to show signs of impatience.