Example sentences for: rests

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

  • Primary procurement responsibility now rests directly with federal agencies.

  • Stated in that way, the case for private property rests on the incentives that it creates for the preservation and spread of wealth, while the case against it rests on similar utilitarian commitments: giving private ownership to a river blocks transportation, recreation, and aesthetic values.

  • The transferability of estimates of the value of a statistical life from the 26 studies to the Clear Skies Act analysis rests on the assumption that, within a reasonable range, WTP for reductions in mortality risk is linear in risk reduction.

  • Reno's entire success at Justice rests on her image as an ethical paragon.

  • Though Tutankhamun could have been among them, the Egyptian authorities made the decision to return him to the Valley of the Kings and he now rests once again in the inner sanctuary of his tomb in a stone sarcophagus.


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