How to Use restless in a Sentence

restless

adjective
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  • He started to feel restless and discontent in his job.
  • The audience was becoming restless.
  • As the weeks ticked by, people on the Internet grew restless.
    — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The whole process was fairly mundane and often led to restless nights.
    — Sarah Madaus, Allure, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The crowd appeared to be restless after over a minute of this, shouting, whistling and booing.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Darius Spencer of San Diego, who spent the night at the airport, played his ukelele to help keep the restless crowd entertained.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Last year, Woodard’s restless sights turned toward the water.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The Backstreets is a restless book that shifts freely among various modes.
    — Ed Park, The Atlantic, 21 Sep. 2022
  • These restless volcanoes might stay in this state for years or decades.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The letter comes at a critical point in the strike, as many members have started to grow restless.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Still, rents are now so high, the prospect of finding another home is causing her restless nights and headaches.
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • His father and namesake, Chester, was one of 18 children in Oklahoma, the son of a restless man, who wasn’t around much.
    — Grayson Haver Currin, Outside Online, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The surest sign a college football program is in trouble is when the alumni grow restless.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The livestock are restless, tossing their heads and lowing to themselves.
    — Luther Ray Abel, National Review, 23 June 2022
  • Like many a restless prince before him, Peltz Beckham needed a way to set himself apart from Mum and Dad — a path that, for him, ran through the kitchen.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Your comforter and sheets set can be the difference between a good night’s sleep or a restless night spent kicking the covers off the bed.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Fans likely won’t tire of it, but the film’s long duration may leave some viewers restless.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 26 Nov. 2023
  • As the restaurant emptied before game time, Jett got restless.
    — Emma Carmichael, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Like all of them, West, at his peak, was too artistically restless to stay stuck in one place for long.
    — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2022
  • The 10-episode series is set amidst the glamour of the global elite and centers on the brilliant and restless Imogene Scott (Violett Beane).
    — Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Ramaswamy turned away to relieve his wife, Apoorva, a doctor who was eight and a half months pregnant, of their restless two-year-old son.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Designed for kids with restless hands, this cube has six sides with different functions on each face.
    — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 20 July 2022
  • The baby was grumpy and restless, tired of being strapped into his car seat and no longer sated by snacks or distractions.
    — Thessaly La Force, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2023
  • Both of us were having a fabulous time, but both of us were restless, wanting to get together.
    — New York Times, 16 June 2022
  • Known as the social butterfly of the zodiac, Gemini is a bit too restless and fast-paced for dreamy Pisces.
    — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 18 Feb. 2024
  • As a result her son, Kylian (Cody Schroeder), who’s about 5, is restless and agitated and her nerves are shot.
    — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
  • Christina Belcher woke up in her teal Hyundai Elantra after a restless night in the Albertson’s parking lot.
    — Haeven Gibbons, Dallas News, 6 June 2023
  • The choreographer Rena Butler set off the stillness of captivity against the restless churn of the surf.
    — An Epic Set, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2024
  • It was packed with other evacuees, many with young children who were anxious and restless, Pat explains.
    — Erica Lee, CNN, 8 Oct. 2022
  • There’s enough in that storyline, filled with the heady buzz of being young and restless and the gnawing ache of feeling rootless, to make for a rich enough narrative on its own.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023

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