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Example sentences for: rested

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

That decision rested primarily on inhouse staff availability.
Best line from Andrew Revkin's New York Times coverage of the event: "During a break, the children rested on the grass, their guns around them, drinking from cartons of fruit punch and talking about Harry Potter."
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.
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 whole field of biology has rested precariously on a single data point--life on Earth.