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Example sentences for "rest"

Lexicographically close words:
ressemblance; ressemble; ressemblent; ressource; ressources; resta; restart; restat; restate; restated
  1. It is unfortunate to find such cheap-novel style of writing in a paper which at some future period may be referred to as an authoritative chronicler of events now transpiring.

  2. The whole burden was to rest on him after all.

  3. Well, Drayton, it was a fellow about your size; and the sooner he goes to Mr. Bernard and owns it, the better for him and for all the rest of us.

  4. Mr. Bernard, too, was as happy as the rest of us.

  5. They will be prisoners for over two hours yet, and if you stay here some of the rest of you will be pretty likely to tumble over to keep them company; only I reckon your company wouldn't be good for much after you got down there.

  6. Well, a night's rest will make you better, like as not.

  7. Mr. Bernard and the rest of the party had arrived now, and as if for their benefit the horn spouted full eighty feet, dropping the spray in a shower all around them.

  8. I absolutely haven't courage to go with the rest of the crowd to that island, where I can't get away, if I feel ever so much like running.

  9. Joe began skipping stones lazily, and, moving slowly away from the rest of the party, disappeared behind some rocks, beyond which he dropped suddenly, and crept on hands and knees up the bank where the bushes were thickest.

  10. Your father will never come to his death through want of care for himself, rest sure of that, Johnny; so don't you lie awake at night worrying about him.

  11. I got ducked for nothing, except to make sport for the rest of you.

  12. The rest of the crowd quickened their steps to a run, and were soon gathered around the table, having returned from their long walk with keen appetites.

  13. It was bad enough to have two fellows down in that trap, without letting the rest of the party tumble down on them.

  14. If we start off now on foot we shall be tracked, for Mr. Bernard will not rest till he gets news of us.

  15. Before reaching there I had promised him to stay all night to rest up before I started alone for Gallatin.

  16. Here we remained for two months or more and had the only real rest that we got during our service in the army.

  17. The place was about half a mile from my father’s house, where I concluded to avail myself of a night’s rest and a day also before proceeding.

  18. He received his parole of honor with the rest of the Regiment at Charlotte, N.

  19. This was at Chickamauga, which occurred just after a two months’ rest at Rome, Ga.

  20. The rest of his estate he gave unto the Shoomaker.

  21. You swore to that Berowne, and to the rest Berow.

  22. Therefore I doe it, and I make no doubt, The rest will ere come in, if he be out.

  23. Enter Black moores with musicke, the Boy with a speech, and the rest of the Lords disguised.

  24. Thou shalt know her fellow, by the rest that haue no heads Clo.

  25. Item, If any man be seene to talke with a woman within the tearme of three yeares, hee shall indure such publique shame as the rest of the Court shall possibly deuise Ber.

  26. We are the elements of a social movement which will not rest until it has enlarged the destinies of our motherland.

  27. Demetrio asked with a sigh as he settled on his back on the manure pile where the rest were already stretched out.

  28. Then, hurriedly, they took the Juchipila canyon northward, without halting to rest until nightfall.

  29. The rest of the officers, moreover, burst into hilarious mirth and holding their sides with laughter begged the colonel to pardon the deserter.

  30. The rest scattered about in search of food.

  31. My best wishes to the General, to Anastasio, and the rest of the boys.

  32. I'll give you the rest for nothing if you buy all those with pictures.

  33. Come on, let's go and warn the rest of the boys.

  34. Most of them aren't soldiers, you know, but drafted men; if just one of them starts mutinying, the rest will follow like sheep.

  35. One shot for each of them, and a well-earned rest for a pair of poor sinners, be damned to them!

  36. War Paint and her companions were ransacking the rest of the house.

  37. They were forced to carry him the rest of the way on a makeshift stretcher of leaves and branches.

  38. They stopped to rest at every small hut they found hidden between the steep, jagged rocks.

  39. If so, by all the gods in Asia, they may rest assured I'll be even with them.

  40. You may rest assured of one thing, gentlemen, I took this matter up in the first place as an ordinary business speculation.

  41. Forgive me, Miss Kitwater, for prying into your private affairs, but in my opinion it is manifestly unfair that you should have to support these two men for the rest of their existences.

  42. The passengers were naturally indignant at such treatment, and for the rest of the voyage the man found himself taking, what you English 'call the cold shoulder.

  43. You can rest assured that everything you may impart to me will be treated in strictest confidence.

  44. The former, they soon discovered, were as solidly built as the rest of the palace, and were about thirty in number.

  45. Except when business compels me to break through my rule, I rise at the same hour every morning, breakfast, lunch, and dine at the same time, and as far as possible retire to rest punctually at the usual moment.

  46. The rest of the 21st Corps (to which Gougeard's division belonged) was to defend the space between the Huisne and the Sarthe.

  47. The elections for the new National Assembly were just over, nearly all of the forty-three deputies returned for Paris being Republicans, though throughout the rest of France Legitimist and Orleanist candidates were generally successful.

  48. On the arrival of the enemy in the district a party of officers had come to his house and ordered their men to remove the rest of his wine, together with nearly all his bedding, and every fowl and every pig that he possessed.

  49. The rest of the ambulance's dramatic story must be read in Dr.

  50. My brother Edward, at that time a student at the École des Beaux Arts, then became his assistant, and a little later I was taken across the Channel with my brother Arthur to join the rest of the family.

  51. The rest of the space enclosed within the screen belonged more especially to the clergy; the north transept was probably used as a chapter-house, when the undercroft was yet unfinished, and its western aisle was used as the chapter library.

  52. I am always glad when I get round the corner, and can rest my eye on the massive and simple majesty of the nave and transepts.

  53. The next tier, that of the Apostles, who are thus raised above the angels, contains twelve figures of imposing design, later in style than the rest of the statuary.

  54. The rest contain half-length figures of angels, holding crowns, mitres, scrolls, or drapery in their hands.

  55. The dean sat on one side of him, the precentor on the other, and the rest in due order from the archdeacons and officers down to those in minor orders.

  56. In plan it is octagonal, the three western sides consisting of the three arches by which it is opened to the rest of the church.

  57. They are both of strikingly different style to the rest of the interior, as they were built in pure Early English style, at the same time as the west front, of which the towers form, of course, an integral part.

  58. Accused in 1487 of helping Lambert Simnel, he was imprisoned at Windsor for the rest of his life.

  59. It is essential to democracy that any group of citizens whose interests or desires separate them at all widely from the rest of the community should be free to decide their internal affairs for themselves.

  60. But they should not be free as regards the price of what they produce, since price is a matter concerning their relations to the rest of the community.

  61. Fatigue produces the illusion that only rest is needed for happiness; but when men have rested for a time, boredom drives them to renewed activity.

  62. The neutral authority should, of course, rest on a democratic basis, but should, if possible, represent a constituency wider than that of the groups concerned.

  63. All our economic problems, all the questions of securing the rights of labor, all the hopes of freedom at home and humanity abroad, rest upon the creation of international good-will.

  64. They can be secured by gild socialism, by industrial self-government subject to state control as regards the relations of a trade to the rest of the community.

  65. At present our institutions rest upon two things: property and power.

  66. The colour of the eyes and their expression were out of keeping with the Oriental cast of the rest of the face.

  67. His ashes found rest at last beside the ashes of the creature he had loved with such unbounded, almost undying, love.

  68. Or else one may wander and wander far, and find not a place to rest one's head; the disquieting alarms of life are unceasing, the soul is confounded.

  69. Won't you be pleased to come in to have some lunch, and rest a bit?

  70. Flucker and Jean ran out; the rest appealed against the interruption.

  71. I shall probably be here the rest of the summer.

  72. Angela Vivian directed her eyes to her neighbors, and let them rest a while on the young girl's little fidgeting figure and her fresh, coquettish face.

  73. He removed it, and half raised himself, resting on his elbow and preparing to taste, in another position, of a little more of that exquisite rest of which mention has just been made.

  74. By this time Bernard had become aware that he was agitated; the exquisite rest of a few moments before had passed away.

  75. It brought with it an exquisite sense of rest, and the rest was not spoiled by the fact that it was animated by a charming dream.

  76. She let them rest upon it only a moment; then she closed it and slowly rose from her chair, turning away from Bernard.

  77. Let me express my gratitude, in advance, for the rest of the time, till he comes back.

  78. Let her see for half an hour that I am out of your mind--the rest will take care of itself.

  79. I was writing an important letter and I put it to myself in this way: 'If I interrupt my letter I shall have to come back and finish it; whereas if I finish it now, I can have all the rest of the day to spend with him.

  80. Does he expect me to spend the rest of my life at the Hotel de Hollande?

  81. So Bernard meditated, as he wandered about alone for the rest of the evening.

  82. I say "almost," for there was a solitary spot in his consciousness which felt numb and dead--unpervaded by the joy with which the rest of his spirit seemed to thrill and tingle.

  83. By this he knew that the girl had overreached him; so he opened the store rooms and seized what was in them, together with the rest of the money, leaving nothing in the house.

  84. Then he took all the meat and drink I had given him and the rest of it and went out of my house; but the accursed carle gave it in charge of a porter to carry to his home but hid himself in one of the alleys.

  85. Said the King in himself, "By Allah, I will not slay her until I hear the rest of her story, for truly it is wondrous.

  86. Indeed it was as good as good could be and it hath given me rest and repose; nor will I now depart from it one tittle: so, when they bring me my meat, I will refuse it and blow out my belly and counterfeit crank.

  87. The rest of the day is spent out of doors "Gypsying," and families greatly enjoy themselves on these occasions.

  88. Then he lay down to rest and I covered him up and rested also.

  89. Presently we made an island where we landed and cooked somewhat of food, and ate heartily and took our rest for a couple of days.

  90. All the rest is, I regret, an absolute mystery.

  91. Rest assured that your claim to distinction as an Englishman will not be forgotten.

  92. If you admit it you will perhaps set our minds at rest as to the reason of her sudden departure from Paris yesterday," exclaimed the Baronne, with a strange expression upon her face, as though she knew more than she would admit.

  93. I sighed, and longed for quiet and rest at home in dear old rural England.

  94. It was the only piece of incongruous furniture in the room, all the rest being genuine Louis Quatorze.

  95. I came to show you that your plain duty is to become a stockholder of the Tecumseh Motor Company with the rest of your family.

  96. Give it a rest and then go back to it fresh.

  97. Refreshed by their rest on the shafts, they flapped their tiny wings and fluttered up to the anxious mother bird on the branches above them, wholly unconscious that they had been in any peril whatsoever.

  98. He retired to rest as soon as he reached his house, to be wakened presently by a slight noise at the window, whence the flag-post protruded.

  99. She would have ended the readings then had not Agatha been at that point in the arms of an officer who, Miss Ailie felt almost certain, had a wife in India, and so how could she rest till she knew for certain?

  100. Dispiriting item, that on resuming his seat the chastised one is a hero to his fellows for the rest of the day.

  101. The sisters, it is to be feared, called him the dashing McLean, but he was at this time nearly forty years old, an age when bachelors like to take a long rest from thinking of matrimony, before beginning again.

  102. Jean Myles's reason for not telling where she bides in London is that she's so grand that she thinks if auld Petey and the rest knowed where the place was they would visit her and boast as they was her friends.

  103. Tommy remained in his mother's bed for the rest of the night, and so many things were buzzing in his brain that not for an hour did he think it time to repeat his new prayer.

  104. Ah, those exploits, I fancy, are confined to Saturday nights, and unfortunately his Saturday debauch does not keep him sober for the rest of the week, which we demand of respectable characters in these parts.

  105. For the rest of the day he was in thought, now waggling his head smugly over some dark, unutterable design and again looking a little scared.

  106. Your Lordship will see by the letters that I have the honour to enclose for your perusal, that after filling up all the places, the pleasure of rejecting the rest of the candidates is reserved for me.

  107. If it is so in England, it is unquestionably equally unprovided for in Ireland; and the right of making such provision must of necessity rest in the same manner in the Lords and Commons of England.

  108. The rest of our public events are just such as you see them in the papers.

  109. The rest of the empire will give their contingent, unless they have been lucky enough to be forced to sign a capitulation of neutrality.

  110. I have not time to answer the rest of your letter to-day.

  111. Lord Loughborough has declined, and Fox seems to govern the rest just in the old way.

  112. Five-and-forty beds are ready; the rest will be so in a very few days.

  113. All the rest stated, though in terms more or less strong, that the probability is in favour of recovery.

  114. Mr. Fullom starts from the Sun, runs round by the Planets, noticing Comets as he goes, and puts up for a rest at the Central Sun.

  115. Be tranquil, although I hope the time is far distant, yet, when it comes, be assured that your body shall rest in holy ground.

  116. And as she said these words she threw herself on the lapidary's neck, while the doctor motioned for the rest of the group to advance.

  117. Shall we sit down and rest ourselves here a few minutes?

  118. There is no rest or peace for me save in the solitude of a cloister.

  119. Pray don't overlook the rest of your friends, M.

  120. Nay, mother, I cannot bear to rest shut up with my own wretched thoughts!

  121. Well, well," said the cure, "let us hope that a little rest is all you require to set you to rights!

  122. The princess's eyes did not rest upon me an instant, but that look threw me into the most violent confusion.

  123. The engine and boiler must be supported on springs, and rest on six wheels, the height of the whole not exceeding fifteen feet to the top of the chimney.

  124. The rest of the journey was uneventful until the Zaire had reached the northernmost limits of the Residency reserve.

  125. He came to the part of his narrative where Bosambo was taken ill without creating any notable sensation, save that Sanders's grey eyes narrowed a little and he paid greater heed to the rest of the story.

  126. He had solemnly promised Sanders that he would rouse the girl without waking up the rest of the house.

  127. The broken cooking-pots which rest on the mounds and the rent linen which flutters from little sticks stuck about the graves, grow whole and new again.

  128. But by litle and litle the rest of the body of an animal is framed out of those red veines which streame out all aboute from the hart.

  129. Part remained hanging amid the rocks, and the rest sank, with those on board, beneath the waves, far down into the depth of the sea.

  130. In a few years they will be the Americans of the Americans, and on them will rest the performance of the glorious work of sustaining American civilization, and realizing the hopes of the founders of our great and growing Republic.

  131. Mothers, therefore, who are devoted to the religious instruction of their children, must rest assured that God will give them extraordinary graces to arrive at perfection.

  132. Let the measure of the evil consequences of the Public School system become full, and rest assured the wrath of God will not fail to come down upon the American people.

  133. Let us rest assured God has given to us, to every man his vocation, his sphere of action and holy influence, wherein he can proclaim to those around him that faith which maketh wise unto salvation.

  134. This is the dilemma that all who rest society on the State, or on an atheistical basis, get into.

  135. Is it not wonderful that they did not give themselves up to grief at losing the Teacher who was worth all the rest of the world put together?

  136. How blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness; who feel that they are not doing right, and yet cannot rest till they do right; for they shall be filled!

  137. And then we may be certain that God will also fulfil to us the glorious promises which we find in another Psalm: "If thy children will keep my covenant and my testimonies, which I shall learn them, this land shall be my rest for ever.

  138. I do not believe that Christ would be present, that God's Spirit would rest on that man.

  139. Saul was, we read, a head taller than all the rest of the people, and very handsome to look at.

  140. They had a chance given them of rising, and improving, and prospering, as the rest of their countrymen rose, and improved, and prospered.


  141. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abeyance; abide; advocate; afterglow; annihilation; appease; arm; axis; back; backbone; backing; balance; bandeau; bane; base; basis; bearer; bearing; bed; bottom; brace; bracer; bracket; break; breath; breather; butt; buttress; caesura; calm; calmness; cane; carrier; cervix; chaff; coast; comfort; compose; composure; consist; contemplation; convenience; cool; corset; couch; cradle; crook; crutch; curtains; dead; debris; decease; delay; demise; departure; depend; deposit; detritus; difference; dissolution; doom; doze; drift; drop; dwell; dying; ease; end; ending; even; exit; expiration; extinction; filings; footstep; fossil; found; foundation; freedom; freeze; fulcrum; gap; gentle; girdle; going; grave; guy; halt; hang; heel; hesitate; hesitation; hibernate; hinge; holiday; hush; husk; idle; inactivity; interim; interlude; intermezzo; intermission; intermittence; interruption; interval; knell; lapse; lay; leavings; leftover; leisure; lie; lodge; loll; lounge; lull; mainstay; mast; minim; mollify; nap; neck; pacify; paring; parting; passing; pause; peace; peacefulness; perch; pivot; plead; predicate; prop; quell; quiescence; quiet; quietism; quietude; quietus; rag; recess; recline; refuse; reinforcement; relax; relaxation; release; relics; remain; remainder; remains; remission; remnant; repose; residue; respite; rest; retirement; reward; ride; rigging; roach; rock; round; rubbish; ruin; rump; rung; sawdust; scale; scouring; scrap; serenity; shadow; shaving; shoulder; shroud; silence; sit; sleep; slumber; smooth; sojourn; soothe; spell; spine; spoke; sprawl; stabilize; staff; stagnate; stair; stand; stave; stay; steady; step; stick; still; stillness; stop; straw; strengthener; string; stubble; stump; subdue; subsist; support; supporter; surcease; survival; survive; suspension; sustainer; sweepings; tarry; trace; tranquilize; tranquillity; tread; truce; upholder; vacation; vegetate; vestige; waste


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    rest and; rest assured; rest billets; rest from; rest here; rest myself; rest thee; rest till; rest upon; rested upon; resting place; resting upon; restore order; restore peace; restore the; restore them; restrain himself; restrain them; restrained himself; restrained myself; rests upon