Example sentences for: rested

How can you use “rested” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The reporting system rested on the definition of a "case."

  • (Her lawyers rested their case without presenting any evidence of their own.)

  • The water-filled bucket has now rested, silent and waiting, until the cannonball strikes the paddle wheel, whereupon the wheel spins, the red rope winds up, pulling the water-filled bucket up the well, up against the axle, which tilts the bucket over  you will have to imagine this part  and pours the water into a long funnel that slopes down from the wellhead toward my bean field.

  • If the Nazi state had rested only on coercion, it's doubtful that Hitler could have persuaded millions of Germans to remain loyal to him, and to fight heroically to the end of the war.

  • So far the mainstay of treatment for postpartum depression has rested with oral antidepressants, specifically the SSRI's.


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