move restlessly
Example Sentences
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We move restlessly from want to want, never discovering any lasting satisfaction.
From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2015
I move restlessly in my chair, but the discomfort grows until I can’t take it any more.
From Salon • Sep. 16, 2013
The children move restlessly between Tom and Jerry cartoons on the television and a computer game on their mother’s laptop.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2010
Lou’s legs move restlessly and he eats a green apple with loud cracking noises, like he’s gnawing rock.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2010
I sat very still, fearing to annoy her by any chance movement, but my addressing her had evidently disturbed her, for she began to move restlessly, and to make a kind of muttering to herself.
From Fifty-Two Stories For Girls by Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry)