unquiet

Example Sentences

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Top leaders pointed to high tourism numbers - some 23 million last year and millions more in the years before - as proof of a big boom after years of unquiet.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025

"This is important in these unquiet times, unstable international environment, it is without doubt a step that raises the security of our country and our people," Fiala said.

From Reuters • Apr. 26, 2023

These scenes amplify Julien’s theme of the unquiet journey of African art into Western domains, whereas a re-enactment of Locke lovingly gazing upon Barthé as he sleeps feels like an outtake from “Waiting for Langston.”

From New York Times • Aug. 5, 2022

So Vollie had a mantra—he had learned to meditate from Bobby Heflin, of all unquiet people, who’d read some magazine articles about Buddhism and a Buddhist’s all-eclipsing indifference to property, to life, to limb.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 14, 2019

When he lay down again the cat was gone from his side—another small night hunter slipping through the unquiet shadows that froze to stillness at his passing.

From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford