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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 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

A ship too big for the marble to contain, rising and falling in the restless water.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck