restless

Example Sentences

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

From Barron's • Mar. 22, 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

Stella’s restless energy in wanting to fix things spurs her to arrange an impromptu trip for them to Amsterdam.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026

This restless drive to find the underlying order of things, whether of a mountain range or a Gothic vault, is the key to the whole exhibition, and to Viollet-le-Duc.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

I closed my book, climbed down from the ridge, and fed the dogs, who were restless.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell