restless

Example Sentences

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"Imagine, without sleep, my child was restless all night," Quinones said.

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 2026

Sir Keir Starmer's party is still restless, and underneath the overwhelming scale of the crisis in the Middle East, politics continues to fray.

From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026

Wildly digressive, buzzing with literary allusions and telling its story as a 20th-century Shakespearean tragedy, the book has some of the mad, restless energy of Sellers himself.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Elsewhere, you can watch the overly cute Christian homily “Forevergreen,” from Nathan Engelhardt and Jeremy Spears, about a nurturing tree, a restless bear and the dangerous allure of potato chips.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

The children were restless, too, and their noses twitched in hopes of catching another whiff of whoever their unseen visitor had been.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood