Saints never exhaust their patience, but sometimes their followers do.

If she had truly exhausted her patience with him, what new horrors might she turn to?

You have repeatedly broken the rules of this court, and have exhausted my patience.

The boy, who has exhausted everyone's patience, begins to sound like a mini-member of the Red Brigades.

In fifteen minutes, Lynch had exhausted his patience.

But George senses that he has exhausted the kid's patience.

It was too absurd - the invitation, then this curt dismissal, as if I had exhausted his patience.

Don't exhaust your enemy's patience if there is no hope of outlasting him.

But, surely, the pilgrim would soon exhaust his patience and wander on his way.

The Wanderers is yet another example of crime writing that refuses to exhaust its potential and our patience with stereotypes.