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

The chimney, says Akashi, is “a kind of restless object. It only functions with a home.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

But if you really think about a basement, it is cement poured over restless earth.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi