Example sentences for: rested

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

  • There wasn't much to see: a gaggle of onlookers milled around the block and a few dozen floral bouquets rested on the stoop.

  • Mono sound equipment brings back the days when the phonograph rested in the den instead of in the home entertainment center, when quadraphonic might have been a malapropism for something in The Phantom of the Opera . Other backwords involve longer journeys in time: straight razors were the only razors around until the emergence of safety razors, which have in turn ceded precedence to the injector-blade and finally the twin-blade.

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

  • Then, God rested.

  • His success as an administrator rested on two insights that are now commonplace: first, that the academic star system could be used to create departments with high-profile brand names, and second, that the longing of academic couples to live in the same place represents an administrative opportunity, not a headache.


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