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Example sentences for "restlessly"

Lexicographically close words:
restitutions; restive; restiveness; restless; restlesse; restlessness; resto; restock; restocked; restocking
  1. He shuffled the books and papers in his study, and walked about the room, restlessly musing on the same subject.

  2. Edward, to despatch the message at once, hurriedly followed the road towards the station, still restlessly thinking.

  3. He could just dimly discern the airy summits of the two or three trees nearest him waving restlessly backwards and forwards, and stretching out their boughs like hairy arms into the dull sky.

  4. The speech did not make much of a hit, the fallen women moving restlessly about.

  5. Sam thought he could hear the little body moving restlessly in bed.

  6. In the upper part of the house he could hear Sue moving restlessly about and he had satisfaction in the thought that her mind was punishing her for so strange a seizure.

  7. He began to frown and to pull restlessly at the lash of his riding-whip.

  8. They dwelt restlessly upon the brilliant patch of garden visible under the lowered sun-blind.

  9. He spoke with bitter vehemence, beating restlessly against his heel with his whip.

  10. His fingers, clasped about his knees, tugged restlessly at each other.

  11. I don’t know,” he said hopelessly—and began moving restlessly about the room.

  12. Then she walked restlessly to the window and studied the sky.

  13. Molly had settled Mrs. King in an easy chair and was on the lawn, pacing restlessly to and fro, when Jordan swiftly drove his machine through the gate and up to the veranda.

  14. The dimmed eyes of the old woman roamed restlessly from face to face.

  15. Her eyes roved restlessly down the same row of the bookcase where she had got the dictionary.

  16. Miss Eliza saw them coming, for she was restlessly waiting on the back porch; she had been waiting for some time.

  17. The numerous retinue of servants in the Eysvogel mansion were moving restlessly to and fro; the news of the prince's death had reached them.

  18. His bright face bore the impress of a horror still unconquered, as he gazed restlessly into vacancy, and seemed to be seeking something, now above and now in the ground.

  19. Last night he had slept restlessly because the events of the day had been stressful and uncertain, even if, in their summary, there had been an element of satisfaction.

  20. For a few moments the revenue officer restlessly paced the room, then, halting before the desk, he rapped sharply with his knuckles.

  21. Wylde was turning restlessly upon his bed, coughing more than he had done of late; and Grey reproached himself with his long absence, though he quickly had things comfortable and bright again.

  22. As he tossed in his bed and his head turned restlessly on his pillow, Krool's face kept coming before him, and it was the last thing he saw, ominous and strange, before he fell into a heavy but troubled sleep.

  23. Restlessly he watched the hours away, now blaming, now excusing, anon dreaming of his coming bliss, then fidgeting and fearing disappointment from being too forward in its demanding.

  24. The vision only lasted a moment; but a torturing almost unbearable feeling, that in the same moment some misfortune was befalling us at home, drove me from the room to wander restlessly in the fields for the rest of the day.

  25. My father was restlessly active, but not very communicative.

  26. The next morning she found her tossing restlessly on her pillows.

  27. The step had been very soft, and even the breath of the intruder was not allowed to pass heavily into the air, but the light of the candle shone upon the eyelids of the sleeper, and she moved her head restlessly on the pillow.

  28. He walked about the room restlessly for a time, while she stood with assumed composure near the window.

  29. He moved restlessly in his chair, and looked towards the sea.

  30. Yes," said Hugo, looking at him restlessly out of his long, dark eyes.

  31. He plucked the spray as he spoke, and played restlessly with the leaves.

  32. You have more faith in me than I deserve," he said, walking restlessly up and down the room.

  33. Captain Hosmer was walking restlessly up and down the floor, and casting uneasy glances toward us.

  34. One of these prisoners, a tall, handsome man, walked restlessly up and down the room where we sat, his guard keeping watch on him.

  35. We had seen half a dozen females circling restlessly about, and suspected that their fawns could not be far away.

  36. A moment later I began to distinguish heads and legs and realized that I was looking at an enormous herd of antelope, closely packed together, restlessly watching us.

  37. Geoff lay down, moving his head restlessly until it was endurably at ease amid the protecting towels.

  38. Rising, she moved restlessly and without object to and fro from end to end of the little room.

  39. She moved restlessly around the room for a few minutes, then wandered upstairs again.

  40. The woman beside Uncle Harry seemed ill at ease, crumpling her programme, and moving restlessly upon her seat as if the little play bored her.

  41. At first she seemed not to notice him, but after a time she moved restlessly on her seat, and wriggled about in a way that delighted the small boy.

  42. He reached the approach to the foothills where the palms lifted their stately and magnificent height, long before Pearl, and there, walking restlessly back and forth, he watched the road with straining eyes.

  43. She had uttered the last words with increasing agitation, pacing restlessly up and down the room.

  44. Mohr, with his hands crossed behind his back, paced restlessly up and down the room like a caged lion, pausing at every dozen steps as if to listen.

  45. For half an hour or more, while I waited expectantly, both animals moved restlessly about the den, or climbed over the roots and trunk of the fallen tree.

  46. But the moment I rose to go he was in the air again, circling restlessly above my head with his mate, the same wild fierceness in his eyes as he looked down.

  47. Birds whirred restlessly in the creaking branches, and an owl flew shrieking in front of them.

  48. He moved restlessly under her detaining hand on his sleeve.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "restlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.