Still no one came and, as the clock chimed another half hour, Sharpe's patience finally snapped.

She still hadn't said anything, and suddenly Rhy's patience snapped.

Then came the demand that prisoners should be allowed to vote, and my patience snapped.

It only took a couple of days before his patience snapped.

Shiites' patience had snapped, and they began to take systematic revenge.

He'd been patient, then his patience had snapped, though not in the way it had today.

She reached up to strike him again, and he caught her hand with a serious fury as his patience snapped.

Still she did not move and Taliesen's patience snapped.

His patience with his colleagues in the Boston area has finally snapped.

If it had been anyone else, his patience would have snapped within moments, but he cut her some slack.