restive

Example Sentences

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The military has long presented itself as the only force guarding restive Myanmar from rupture and ruin.

From Barron's • Jan. 24, 2026

On the coast, the Alawite community is nervous and restive.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2025

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

For Congolese former deputy Enoch Ruberangabo, who comes from an ethnic Tutsi community in the restive east, Mobutu was a leader who "allowed community tensions to fester".

From Barron's • Nov. 13, 2025

King Hizdahr’s pit fighters were already growing bored and restive with their new duties, and bored men were lax, slow to react.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin