wear thin

But such behavior appears to be wearing thin with the public.

And I am an old man, worn thin by hard years.

It would wear thin, eventually, like the other women always did.

Okay, so maybe the relationship was wearing thin and I just hadn't noticed.

We're eight hours into the journey with 20 to go, but small talk is wearing thin.

Patience, though, may be wearing thin in the front office.

Beard's players are beginning to wear thin on him as well.

I am civil toward her, but my patience is wearing thin.

Now though, some of the old assurance was beginning to wear thin.

It felt more as if he were wearing thin gloves.

But after weeks of such excuses, they began to wear thin.

That excuse was going to wear thin as the months passed.

She had so much to do that her patience was wearing thin.

By the 1941, his admiration of the West had worn thin, however.

But somehow, such arguments were beginning to wear thin, at least to him.

Again the game wore thin after a while, and he stretched out to sleep.

After the first dozen or so, such comparisons begin to wear thin.

The three of them were still quite a distance from their destination and the day was beginning to wear thin.

After a while, the novelty of doing very little wore thin and I tried to find something to do.

"They've been very patient with the company, and now that patience is wearing thin."

How far can one person stretch his or her own experience before the material wears thin?

As the months passed, she tells me, her patience started to wear thin.

Patience at the top of the food chain also seems to be wearing thin.

But emotions are running high and patience is wearing thin.

The justice sounded as if her patience was wearing thin.