restive
Example Sentences
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Conflict monitors, now watching with alarm as Islamist militants capture territory and stage attacks in Mali, urge the administration to pay closer attention to the restive Sahel region and other hot spots.
From Salon • May 19, 2026
Myanmar's military has long presented itself as the only force guarding the restive country from rupture and ruin.
From Barron's • Mar. 31, 2026
Yet, however destructive to his personal life, Matthiessen’s restive, yearning nature animated the best of his fiction.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Many Labour MPs are sympathetic to this move, which could make a future vote awkward for a restive party because the leadership has always resisted calls to go that far.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025
She placed it beside her, picked up the reins and whipped the restive horses into a tired trot.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
Vocabulary lists containing restive
Animal Farm
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" by Frederick Douglass
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