How to use "patient" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "patient" in popular movie and book plots

  • Hal attempts to find Rosemary, but instead encounters a young patient named Cadence at the hospital where Rosemary volunteers.  - Shallow Hal
  • At this point Frank is slowly beginning to lose his mind - while tending to a suicidal junkie Frank manages to scare the patient away.  - Bringing Out the Dead
  • When recounting it, he explains to Fell that they are the nightmares of his brother Vincent, a former patient and murderer who is now dead.  - The Ninth Configuration
  • Earlier that day, he asked a patient of his to phone him at a specific time, as confirmed by the telegram.  - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
  • Because of the media coverage of the case, both patient and doctor become part of the popular culture of their time.  - Zelig
  • Collis had established a clinic for cerebral palsy patients and Brown was his very first patient at this clinic.  - My Left Foot (book)
  • The patient tells Hana and Caravaggio that, in the late 1930s, he was exploring the desert of Libya.  - The English Patient (film)
  • While treating the animals on the island, Dolittle receives a surprise patient - the Great Pink Sea Snail, which has caught a severe cold.  - Doctor Dolittle (film)
  • Prior eventually regains his voice, but remains a difficult patient for Rivers avoiding any discussion of his war memories.  - Regeneration (novel)
  • The better a patient gets, the lower level she is able to achieve.  - The Snake Pit
  • The patient is in fact László de Almásy, a Hungarian Count and desert explorer, one of many members of a British cartography group.  - The English Patient
  • Crowe recognizes him as Vincent Grey, a former patient whom he treated as a child for hallucinations.  - The Sixth Sense
  • There he encounters Jeffrey Goines (Pitt), a mental patient with fanatical views.  - 12 Monkeys
  • Lecter, who considers this act "unspeakably ugly", calls Starling back and tells her to seek out an old patient of his.  - The Silence of the Lambs (film)
  • Higgins sees himself as a kindhearted, patient man who cannot get along with women ("I'm an Ordinary Man").  - My Fair Lady
  • Disturbed by Alice's revelation, Bill is then called by the daughter of a patient who has just died.  - Eyes Wide Shut

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