How To Use Restless In A Sentence

The rocking motion of the treadle and the gentle clacking of the machine often lulled the restless child.
Not so with this trivial, lawless country club set of the 1920's, drunk part of the time and reckless all of it, codeless, dutiless, restless. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
The beast was as huge as an aurochs, its glossy midnight mane shining in the sunlight as it pawed the ground restlessly with one forehoof.
Restlessness is discontent - and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure. Thomas A. Edison
Perhaps these dark thoughts are why he can be restless at night. Times, Sunday Times

Her great wings beat restlessly against her back as she waited for the others to join her.
Restlessness, anxiety , confusion, and twitching may also precede convulsions.
Feeling restless with our two boys grown and gone from home, I obtained a teaching position at Fujian Teachers University in Fuzhou, The Peoples Republic of China. THE WAY IT WAS
It is zeal for the salvation of souls which makes the prelateship desired, if you will believe the ambitious man; which makes the monk, who is destined for the choir, run hither and thither, as the restless soul himself will tell you; which causes all those censures and murmurings against the prelates of the Treatise on the Love of God
Personal relations have become restless, fretful, often disturbed by an itch for change and variety.
Unleashed, she is a maenad: not crabby but sardonic and perpetually restless, she scrambles over the stage, squaring up to several men at a time; she drinks from a hip flask; she wees; she smokes – and she fumes. The Taming of the Shrew; The Trial of Ubu; Our New Girl – review
The group reaches the elevator queue to find a crowd of roughly two hundred students milling about restlessly.
You can practically hear the cogs whirring inside the most restless mind in sport. Times, Sunday Times
Louisa would move restlessly from one toy to another, apparently unable to concentrate on one activity.
Restless feelings are transformed into positive action and both work and fitness plans are involved. The Sun
From time immemorial our human race has been called a race of wanderers and wayfarers, a restless people forever setting forth in pursuit of a better life.
As an art form, it has survived the dynasties, the warlords, the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, the Communist Revolution, and has just about survived the restless nature of the Other Festival's unappreciative audience.
We are already in the twentieth century with its restlessness, its inquietude, ‘the age of anxiety’.
The captain paced restlessly up and down, pausing occasionally to survey the vagrant smoke wisps and to trace them back to the portions of the deck from which they sprang. THE SEED OF McCOY
Third, there are the truly restless - the oddballs and eccentrics who always seem to want to look at things from a different angle.
The haunting became so intense that in 1999 Buddhist monks were invited to the museum to offer foods to propitiate the restless souls of the victims who had been murdered there.
The other trump card of the pessimists, erotic desire, is notoriously restless and insecure, and apt to deliver only partial fulfilments.
Behold the mountain rillet, become a brook, become a torrent, how it inarms a handsome boulder: yet if the stone will not go with it, on it hurries, pursuing self in extension, down to where perchance a dam has been raised of a sufficient depth to enfold and keep it from inordinate restlessness. The Egoist
The reality is that leaders get restless if they are forced to sit still for long. Christianity Today
There was a near record league game crowd growing increasingly restless at their teams' paucity of decent play.
You sense it is already causing a few restless nights. The Sun
Some people with restless legs syndrome also have periodic limb movements during sleep.
The bluesy southern stomp of Beautiful Sorta, with its restless energy and reckless singing, is doused in drink and James Dean fatalism, and finds Adams flailing around for the arms of a good woman to cling to.
The crestless head is dark green, the bill is red, and the eye is dark.
Wes was still asleep on the couch; he was snoring lightly and restlessly.
Try Teething Granules, which help relieve restlessness and irritability due to pain and tenderness associated with teething.
Conservative Republicans, meanwhile, were likely to be restless over tax rebates going to those without income tax liability.
Children disorders: restless syndrome, infantile autism, weaken in intelligence, poor develop.
A brown sunburnt gentleman, who appears in some inaptitude for sleep to be wandering abroad rather than counting the hours on a restless pillow, strolls hitherward at this quiet time. Bleak House
Realism and myth, lyrical memoir and contemporary reality, combine in the highly individual texture of his prose, which expresses the heart-searchings of a solitary man with a restless social conscience.
Thus the constant, unceasing, restless legislating in the areas of crime, punishment and anti-social behaviour.
I was restless and unable to drop off, my mind going one hundred miles an hour and flitting from one topic to the next.
I really hoped that I was right, because I was growing restless from the two long days.
Even more than Blakey, who tended to stick with the Messengers' hard-bop format, Roach was a restless experimenter who was open to many forms of postmodern experimentation, including team-ups with such free-jazz avatars as Archie Shepp, Anthony Braxton and Cecil Taylor. The Jazz Scene: Rhythm Kings and the Chairman of the Board
This approach may not break any new ground, but it seems entirely appropriate to the subject, a modern day songwriting savant and restless genre-hopper who once wrote in a manifesto on formulism in music, "Cliché is dead, long live the cliché! NPR Topics: News
One well-known quality of anti-depressants is their tendency to induce akathisia in a large number of patients, causing the kind of internal racing or restlessness that makes the meds impossible for some to take and, in some cases, can drive people to the edge of suicide. Furious Seasons
He had spent a restless night on a hard cot, with nothing but stale bread and ale to wake him up in the morning.
His restless ambition has never quite been containable within one government department, even the Treasury.
It exposes Gysin as a restless experimenter with a consistent vision, an inconsistent style, and an enduring commitment to several art forms, not least hybrid, intermedial practices such as visual poetry and performance art. Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Brion Gysin, Together at Last
The children in my class get restless near the end of the term.
Like Jeff Beck, his restlessness and commitment overrode the commercial gains to be won by the more mainstream Clapton.
You could have a sleep disorder, such as obstructive sleep apnea or restless legs syndrome.
That may account for his restless determination to get things done. Times, Sunday Times
There was a feeling of restlessness deep in her soul.
The homogenous and sparse population was replaced by the restless diversity, sprawl and cacophony of one of the fastest growing places in America.
He was tired from a restless night of thinking and practicing his diplomatic procedures.
While not depicted here, it is suggested that the inhibitory input to these DA pathways produces the overt and covert restlessness characteristic of akathisia.
She is 22 but her voice is more blighted bud than rose, an emotional instrument that conveys innocence broken on the wheel of restless craving.
As the romance proceeded, she became restless.
In her novel, what abides is dissatisfaction, restlessness, the hungry tapeworm of individual will.
If the child is very uncomfortable and restless, wet a washcloth with tepid water and arnica tincture (you should be able to find this at your local natural foods store or vitamin shop) or lemon juice.
Hence all the turbulence, all the restless energy, the endless traveling along streets and long corridors.
Coupled with a 6-0 thrashing at Chelsea a week later it was a start that left a 37-year-old manager in his second Premier League season looking exposed, if not out of his depth, yet with a conjuror's insouciance Martínez pulled an unlikely win at Spurs out of the hat next to quieten a restless audience. Wigan's Roberto Martínez feels more English than Spanish
Something restless drives him to look forwards not back. Times, Sunday Times
Glass may have been the material that best expressed the restless spirit of art nouveau.
The US $183 million Yankees are struggling mightily at the plate, leaving their fans restless.
The disaffected right wing of the party is restless. Times, Sunday Times
Each time we sit still with the restlessness and heat of anger we are tamed and strengthened.
The dynamic air flowed through her long hair, straightening it as it fluttered restlessly behind her.
His lamentation is lengthened and restlessness is strengthened and he is as he were The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
She is restless, seriously jaded and weary of the word processor.
And then, sometimes I was just restless and bored, though the film was consistently watchable.
Restless behaviour was also noted in cats, rodents and birds. The Sun
The new breed is full of confidence, driven by restless ambition.
Then, restless and dissatisfied, she decided to escape. Times, Sunday Times
Elinor listened, seated in a rocking-chair, restlessly clapping her protended ankles together. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
Hadley is a restless young man-an artist, a dreamer, a screw-up. John Joseph Adams » 2007 » November
And away from the glamour and the excitement of the stage, there is often the hidden loneliness, the restless mind that seldom knows the calm of a safe harbour.
The quiet precinct of the church - yard becomes an unquiet sea of death in which the sleep of the rude Forefathers, forever laid ‘each in his narrow cell,’ seems vexed by a restlessness that will severely tax the poet's resources.
Shipp's metallic chords against Brown's restless drumming and fitful swing are spine-tingling on Part Two, and his stately, harpsichord-like reverie entrancing on Part Three.
Some may feel anxious, restless, irritable or dizzy. Working with Teenagers
Which makes me feel like a restless human. Times, Sunday Times
The animals were restless, disturbed by the smell of fire permeating the building.
I'd watch him moving around the bar in his restless way and note how physically he threw himself at the pinball machine. ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?: A Life Through the Movies
Yet I listened on restlessly, defensively alert for proof that her notion of love was misguided. A DEATH IN THE FAMILY
She wandered about the kitchen restlessly, vaguely tidying up, putting things away more or less at random. THE EXECUTION
Jack fidgeted restlessly, fiddling with the chocolate bar in his hand.
You're restless and anxious about opportunities passing you by. Times, Sunday Times
People getting restless at a festive family do? The Sun
Anna sat in the seat next to Izumi, her mind wakeful and restless.
They were still restless at the convention. Times, Sunday Times
For me, her paintings sum up the restless spirit of America.
But Jerry snarled again and was for leaping upon the black when he stirred restlessly and dizzily sat up. CHAPTER XXIII
If you've never experienced restless leg syndrome, it's hard to understand the creepy-crawly feelings forcing your legs to move.
It is not patriotism, that is to say undiluted concern for the nation as a whole, which leads some of the modern Egyptians to prefer an entirely native government to the Anglo-Egyptian administration now obtaining in that country: it is restlessness; and I am fortunately able to define it thus without the necessity of entering the arena of polemics by an opinion as to whether that restlessness is justified or not justified. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology
With the resumption of the Allegro risoluto the striving commences again and is even more restless than before. Edward MacDowell
The last thing you want when running an international campaign is word that the locals are restless.
And some of her less familiar tracks left the audience a little restless. The Sun
Then there is the window, opening right down to the floor, from which, if it please you, you may study the activity of the roofless ant-hill beneath, the restless febrility of West End London. The Sins of Séverac Bablon
Waldo & all his adherents, and this latter is nn inveterately malicious creature, will be restless and inde - fatigable till he comes away. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
A terrible restlessness that was like to hunger afflicted Martin Eden.
The restless energy of the initial theme and its fugato companion return and lead to a headlong rush a la Mendelssohn to the movement's sudden end, on two quiet pizzicato chords.
The weather was dull, and the sea, forefeeling the approach of the equinoctial gales, was restless and heaving. An Iceland Fisherman
Throughout the novel, Fitzgerald presents her not only as a shallow, restless, and goalless person but also as cruel, corrupt, and dishonest.
That may account for his restless determination to get things done. Times, Sunday Times
There are many stories of animals growing restless before tornados, storms and earthquakes. Times, Sunday Times
The ever restless Pablo Picasso began in the 1950s to create multicolor linocuts from just one block.
Narcolepsy and restless legs syndrome can be treated with lifestyle changes and prescription medication.
So Wang Lung roams around the courts, staying away from Lotus who will be able to tell when a man is restless.
Just try to get off to sleep for a while. Don't toss and turn restlessly.
From this time till half - past two I became constantly more agitated -- _agitated, _ perhaps, is too strong a word -- but I was restless and anxious beyond what I should have chosen to acknowledge. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers
He would occasionally fidget around in his chair restless from his captivity.
The image is of an adult-size Corinthian crestless helmet which can be used for display or re-enactment purposes.
He was boredom personified -- restless, impatient to be away. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
From time immemorial our human race has been called a race of wanderers and wayfarers, a restless people forever setting forth in pursuit of a better life.
Perhaps these dark thoughts are why he can be restless at night. Times, Sunday Times
Chapter Forty-Nine In a small apartment in a suburb of Washington called Mount Rainier, Detective Patsy Hampton lay in bed, restlessly flipping through the pages of the Post. Pop Goes The Weasel
Restless inventive energy underlies design of his extraordinary sculptural clothes (requiring the most ingenious cutting) for his own fashion house and for Givenchy, where he is chief designer.
He says the problems in Inner Mongolia, which he says is a sensitive ethnic region similar to restless Tibet and Xinjiang, reflect growing grievances in what he describes as mainstream Chinese society. China Determined to Suppress Inner Mongolia Protesters
His gait was feeble, his form attenuated, his countenance had lost its ruddy glow, -- the lines had sharpened until their youthful, healthful roundness was wholly obliterated; but the nervous, untranquil expression had passed away from his face, and the restless glancing from side to side had left his eyes. Fairy Fingers A Novel
His hands swept restlessly over her body, touching, stroking, his fingers igniting fires wherever they roamed.
he was feeling tough after a restless night
Many are restless, depressed, and encumbered with the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches.
Why might young men be getting restless faster? Times, Sunday Times
A variety of other clinical findings ensue, which may include anxiety, restlessness, hyperexcitability, hallucinations, dysphagia, and hydrophobia.
I fell into a fitful, restless sleep, one that was preoccupied with thoughts of him.
Cameron also had a few small giftware and homeware retail developments on the boil -- My Place It's Home, Dog's Breakfast and New Objects Of Desire -- but she got restless. Animal Magnetism
With a touch imperceptible as dewfall, she touched her brother's mind and sharpened his inner longing with restlessness. Stormwarden
IT is a weary thing to lie tossing restlessly from side to side, sleepless, through the silent watches of the night, spirit and matter warring against each other -- the sword gnawing and corroding its sheath. Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
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If she appears restless today, it's because the 44-year-old is on a mission to extend the range of work she takes on.
a restless child
I snatched six hours of restless, fitful sleep before having to get back into the office.
Steffan Rhodri's Paul is the archetypal Ayckbourn male bully, David Armand as the cuckolded John is all restless, arm-waving energy, and Reece Shearsmith as Colin has the bright-eyed bounciness of the truly insensitive. Absent Friends - review
I'm a restless sleeper, so I ended up waking up a lot.
Crestless and smooth to look at, in reality that treacherous roller weighed at least a ton to a yard. The Open Air
I needed something to quiet my thoughts, but my mind was too restless for sleep.
On a muggy Thursday evening, the dimly lit downstairs bar was heaving with a restless, reckless kinetic energy; the boozed-up, spirit-slicked office throng collaborating on a prescription for the morning-after pill. Restaurant review: Platform
Jays are the restless, truly deciduous woodland dwellers of the crow tribe.
He was, in truth, a nomad, a rootless wanderer, trailing from one country to another and one place to another, varying longer stays with many restless shorter travels, living alone except when visiting or journeying with friends.
Her infant son sat next to her and was fidgeting, restless and unable to sleep.
The audience was growing restless. Times, Sunday Times
I fell into a fitful, restless sleep, one that was preoccupied with thoughts of him.
The levels of adrenaline and endorphins remain high and can cause a feeling of restlessness and even a sleepless night.
For some time before leaving the room in the tavern she had turned the coins restlessly over and over under her kerchief, and meanwhile, as if in a dream, made but evasive answers to the questions and demands of In the Blue Pike — Volume 03
She rocked me back and forth in her arms, much like quieting a restless babe.
But Royer was a bit restless and was itching to ratchet things up a notch.
So his good buddy President Bill found a few billion to quell the restless natives.
Why might young men be getting restless faster? Times, Sunday Times
With long-term administration, restlessness, sleeplessness, mydriasis, headaches and cardiac dysfunction can occasionally appear.
His face is pointed, bird-like, the expression blurred, the eyes dark, lively, at times restless. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I
Sitting restlessly I allowed my women to apply a layer of kohl about my eyes and a touch of coral color to my lips.
The sun and moon link the two work zones in your chart and can make you feel restless. The Sun
He swiveled around, looking past green-shuttered doorways, past night-pooled balconies with pots of ferns and roses and geraniums hanging from their black iron scrollwork, the flowers perfuming the humid air, and toward the restless flickers of neon on Bourbon. Etched in Bone
Certainly, the sociological landscape is familiar - a nation in which an educated, privileged elite suppresses a servile, but restless underclass, giving rise to a growing insurrection.
None of the hundreds of tickets handed in bore the magic number 2222, which would have released me from my ignoble custody, and, in time, I gave up expecting it, and settled down to the old-fogeydom of my position, and exacted all the homage due to the "father of the shop" from my restless companions. The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch
His sleep was restless, and every so often he mumbled a few unintelligible words.
The temperature was 100. 2°; the facial expression more natural; the tongue remained somewhat swollen and sore; she was no longer restless; she took tea, beef-tea, milk, etc., well; the functions of the secreting organs were being restored; she perspired freely; had micturated; the mucous membrane of the mouth was moist, and there was a tendency to tears without corresponding mental depression. Scientific American Supplement, No. 470, January 3, 1885
In many democracies around the world there is a similar hope, a restless impatience with politics as it is. Times, Sunday Times
The foxes feel restless without their escape route. Times, Sunday Times
A restless, itinerant soul, he didn't stay in Symington long.
His habits were unhinged; his restless mind roused from its sleep, ambition must now be his companion through life; and if he did not succeed in his present attempt, she foresaw that unhappiness and cureless discontent would follow. The Last Man
Not for nothing had I been called “Sissy” Van Weyden, I thought, as I tossed restlessly on my bunk between one nightmare and another. Chapter 12
Charlie had almost dozed off into a restless sleep when Richie's voice startled him out of his slumberous state.
The power in Tokyo rests with the restless, the young people of the streets creating art and music, and intrapreneurs developing new consumer products and services.
The most common early side effects of fluoxetine are agitation, insomnia, and neuromuscular restlessness resembling akathisia.
Early this morning, after a rare restless and mostly sleepless night, I was awoken from a very deep sleep by the unmistakable, piercingly loud bark/howl of a coyote that sounded like it was right outside in my front yard. The Coyote--to Shoot or Not to Shoot. That is the Question.
The wild creator of the "_Robbers_," drunk with liberty, and audacious against all restraint, becomes the champion of "Holy Order," -- the denouncer of the French republic -- the extoller of an Ideal Life, which should entirely separate Genius the Restless from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
The restlessness of enforced inactivity is setting in. One foot up and the other foot down--
Not that sort of restless, you understand, but rather restless awake rather than asleep.
The answer may well be found in a 1994 essay by Ayers, whose title befits a former merchant seaman: “Navigating a restless sea: The continuing struggle to achieve a decent education for African American youngsters in Chicago.” Deconstructing Obama
Abdul had been there for less then three hours and already he was restless.
The audience became restless towards the end, and no wonder. Times, Sunday Times
By means of their restlessness they produce innumerable currents which we call our passions, our thoughts, our joys, our sufferings, our desires, our fears, and our will. A Mummer's Tale
Such restlessness has not just been a by-product of institutional overprotection.
Others, then, have spotted that restless, rebellious streak in him, which made a military career impossible.
A few minutes later she fell into a restless sleep, filled with dreams of Geoff.
It affords endless amusement to listen to their endless variety of complaint; some are restless, some spiteful, and some angry, while others sound as merrily as a teakettle, or beat a jolly 'rub-a-dub,' 'rataplan,' that makes a man's soul merry to hear. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
He was to protect Tayouan from Chenggong, but, "if, as has frequently occurred, the rumors about Chenggong disappear like smoke in the wind," he was to take his fleet south to wrest Macao from the Portuguese. 57 Van der Laan arrived in Tayouan in late July and began to grow restless in early October, when no invasion had yet taken place. How Taiwan Became Chinese
By 1982, she was restless and needed a new impetus for her talent.
She wore a black bonnet to match her dress and gloves; to Jeremiah she looked like an engraving he'd once seen of a restless soul in limbo.
Not much give and take about Desert — restless, disharmonic, and a poet! Flowering Wilderness
His mind darted like a hummingbird, inquisitive and restless. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
(for the general had chosen them) that they were each and all of them in their way comfortable, in the full English spirit of the word, and according to the French explanation of _comfortable_, given to us by the Duchess d'Abrantes, _convenablement bon_; but in compassion to Mr. Churchill's fastidious restlessness, she would now show him a perfection of Tales and Novels — Volume 10
Politics beckoned, not just because it offered an outlet for his rhetorical brilliance and restless ambition, but also because MPs were immune from prosecution.
I fell into a fitful, restless sleep, one that was preoccupied with thoughts of him.
The mare was restless, no doubt picking up his apprehension. TREASON KEEP
She tossed restlessly in her sleep.
A team that was revelling in overachievement two months ago is now hunkering down into a familiar sense of restlessness. Times, Sunday Times
The stars did what they do, mostly: looked unbudging, transfixed, like cattle asleep in a black pasture, all the restlessness torn out of them, away, done with. The Best American Poetry 2010
Our cousins across the line, with their population of one hundred million, are still forlornly looking for the great American novel, and remembering the age and character of this Dominion I very much doubt if you will ever have the great Canathan novel, for the author of any such master-piece would have to have the geographical restlessness of a Casey Jones and the lyric fervour of an Archibald Lampman and the diligence of an Arnold Bennett and the humour of a Cervantes and the realism of a Zola and the fantasticism. of a Wilson MacDonald and the scholarship of a Charles G. The Interpreters of Canada
Still, his restless, slightly neurotic stage manner held our attention until the end. Times, Sunday Times
Most users become dependent and feel restless, irritable and depressed if they stop. Taking Drugs Seriously
Motolinia wrote a letter to in which he dealt severely with the accusations of Las Casas, whom he described as a restless, turbulent man, who wandered from one colony to another, provoking disturbances and scandals. Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings
You sense it is already causing a few restless nights. The Sun
When severe, this withdrawal is characterized by tremor, restlessness, perceptual disturbances, disorientation, and clouded sensorium. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
As an adolescent he would wander the streets of Montreal at night consumed with restless energy. Times, Sunday Times
You sense it is already causing a few restless nights. The Sun
Most users become dependent and feel restless, irritable and depressed if they stop. Taking Drugs Seriously
The movements may vary from hardly noticeable choreiform twitches or dystonic posturings to nearly constant restless activity of extremities and trunk.
Loneliness can be an intensely painful encounter, along with a deep yearning and a sense of restlessness. Beyond Chaotic Eating
His mind ranged restlessly, his eyes flickered across the room.
Bill Clinton, a restless conceptualizer, was the man who best expressed the idea of a “win-win world” although he never used that precise phrase. Zero-Sum Future
One seeks to gain pleasure through restless zeal; the other is disenchanted when life does not prove to feed those same desires. Christianity Today
The past year had transformed the shy Bostonian and amateur missionary into the restless constable of Saint-Esprit. RUSHING TO PARADISE

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