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Example sentences for "restlessness"

Lexicographically close words:
restive; restiveness; restless; restlesse; restlessly; resto; restock; restocked; restocking; restoration
  1. Ahmed had once or twice lately noticed a certain restlessness among some of the Musalman members of the corps.

  2. Ahmed waited in great restlessness and anxiety, feeling his helplessness.

  3. Her manner to-day and her restlessness is just as plain as the sun in the sky.

  4. The stupor and the restlessness had alike vanished; he was in a deep sleep.

  5. That awful stupor, with the dark, flushed cheek and heavy breath, was to me more ominous than the restlessness of fever.

  6. She was wasted too--had gone, for her, quite thin; and the repressed restlessness of her eyes made a disagreeable impression upon me.

  7. There was a restlessness of breathing, a restlessness of hands.

  8. Ready at any minute to drop from fatigue, he was yet driven forth by constant restlessness to go dragging over forest and field, obliged at ever-lessening intervals to rest upon a stile, or upon the steps of some way-side cross.

  9. It was not acquisitiveness that spurred Zoe on to her various undertakings, but the restlessness of her temperament.

  10. This semi-belligerent state of affairs in Massachusetts produced a general restlessness throughout the land.

  11. Hast thou never known what it was to have doubts and fears, restlessness and dissatisfaction in the present, uncertainty for the future, a feeling that there is little in life, and a great gulf in death?

  12. Her restlessness increased and she got up, crossing the floor to the window open on the garden, where she knelt, the thick plait of her hair across her cheek and shoulder, with her arms propped on the ledge.

  13. He moved down to the library, where he lighted a cheroot and addressed himself to the Gazette; but his restlessness increased: the paper drooped and his thoughts turned to Gerrit as a small boy.

  14. But, as he went aimlessly along, he felt again creeping over him the suddenness of her charm and a certain unsatisfied restlessness to see her again, which came to him with the faint scent of the perfume that had clung to his coat.

  15. He himself had felt the restlessness of indecision and enforced idleness.

  16. Beecher was struck with the mood of restlessness that obsessed him.

  17. He too felt the subtle, disturbing restlessness of this dark that closed in about them, shutting out the peopled world--this mood of the day that exerts over human beings such a compelling desire.

  18. He is lean and meagre from the constant restlessness of mind and body; worrying about with newspapers and pamphlets in his pockets, which he is ready to pull out on all occasions.

  19. Even the guests felt a subtle something in the air that was not conducive to ease; while Mrs. Merideth and her brothers were plainly fighting a losing contest against a restlessness that sent a haunting fear to their eyes.

  20. Doubtless that was half the cause of her present restlessness and unhappiness--she had loved him all the time, and did not know it!

  21. Much to his surprise, this feeling of restlessness dominated all other emotions on his victorious return to college.

  22. The new restlessness of spirit drove him away from the conferences in Regan's and Swazey's rooms to the company of idlers.

  23. His restlessness and ferocity made him assume a prominent part which he was never adequate to fulfil: he was, at best, a cunning madman.

  24. Before long the restlessness that had got possession of him forced him to his feet again.

  25. It began with incessant restlessness while he was reading here.

  26. There is nothing to b e alarmed about in the restlessness and the fever.

  27. No familiarity with them, no mirth and contentment on their part, ever soothed the miserable restlessness caused by the presence of a deeply-injured fellow-being.

  28. He said it would be an afflicting sight if the two representative governments which are in the van of the world should go to war; it would squint towards a confirmation of what is said of the restlessness of popular governments.

  29. There he works rarely, for the restlessness of the sea makes him restless himself; it gives him only dreams, no works.

  30. It is a habit, arising from the natural restlessness of the American when he is not employed, of cutting a piece of stick, or any thing else, with his knife.

  31. On the other hand, total inactivity is sometimes prescribed as a remedy for overwork, when restlessness is so great that enforced idleness maddens.

  32. Though ignorant of the fact that they themselves were degenerating, they were convinced that the restlessness and discontent of their children were due to a disease which should be discouraged.

  33. Whilst some high-caste Hindus are beginning to recognize its urgency, the more prosperous of the socially depressed castes themselves are showing signs of restlessness under the ostracism to which they are subjected.

  34. Indeed, he was himself enduring some hours of torture from restlessness and inactivity.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "restlessness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    activity; actuation; ado; agitation; ailment; anxiety; bluster; boil; boiling; bother; burst; bustle; churn; commotion; consciousness; disappointment; discomposure; disorder; disquiet; dissatisfaction; disturbance; dynamics; eagerness; ebullition; eccentricity; embroilment; envy; excitement; ferment; fermentation; fever; fidget; fidgets; fit; flap; flurry; fluster; flutter; foment; fretfulness; fretting; fume; fuss; going; haste; hubbub; hullabaloo; impulsiveness; inconsistency; inconstancy; inquietude; insomnia; instability; irregularity; kinetics; lather; maelstrom; malaise; mobilization; moil; moodiness; motivation; move; movement; moving; nervousness; palpitation; panting; perturbation; petulance; pother; quaking; quaver; quavering; quiver; quivering; resentment; restlessness; rout; row; running; scramble; seething; sentience; shakes; shaking; shiver; shudder; sleeplessness; sourness; spasm; spurt; stew; stir; sweat; swirl; throb; throbbing; tremble; trembling; tremor; trepidation; tumult; turbidity; turbulence; turmoil; twitter; uncertainty; uneasiness; unhappiness; unreliability; unrest; upset; variability; variation; variety; velocity; vigil; vortex; wake; whirl