Example sentences for: restless

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

  • It was those restless people who eventually invented fashion around the 13 th century, their fabrications marking the body not with received wisdom but with doubt.

  • The paper's television critic, Tom Shales, is similarly restless: "Who'd have thought," he asks, "that making history could be such excruciatingly ponderous torture?"

  • Dramatic arrangements for doing this are famous--the head-flattening, the neck-lengthening, the tooth-filing, the lip-stretching--all the irreversible ways of completing the human body that were called "barbaric" by restless people bent on scientific understanding, political and intellectual enlightenment, or plain old empire, holy and profane.

  • That is one reason so many of us get restless when a film runs for more than two hours, yet are perfectly capable of watching the TV for five hours at a stretch.

  • Her heroines were restless Midwestern females absurdly full of optimism and fatally drawn to exoticism, which presented itself in the form of an unreliable Egyptian.


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