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restless English

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restless

If you are restless, you want to do something else. If you are restless, you are always moving and have trouble being still. He was a restless child. A restless time, is a time in which it is difficulty to sleep. The night before the wedding was restless.

restless

worried and uneasy ceaselessly in motion the restless sea the restless wind (= uneasy) lacking or not affording physical or mental rest a restless night she fell into an uneasy sleep

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Simple sentences

She was restless because she did not have anything to do.
I'm restless.
It was already late; my sister, however, had still not yet returned; and I grew slowly restless.
Tom is restless.
He began to get restless because of that noise.
Tom is getting restless.
Children are impatient and restless.
Tom was impatient and restless.
Tom has been restless all day.
The horses are restless-perhaps we will have thunder tonight.
The animals were restless.
I was restless.
I've been feeling a little restless.
I suffer from restless leg syndrome.
He's restless.

Movie subtitles

An eagle can putter around a rugged mountaintop but not in a cage, because he'd be restless and unhappy.
In vain he fought the terror that seized him, and fear of things he could not name haunted his restless sleep.
The boys are restless about McLaren still hammering their rackets.
The coachman wishes me to remind Monsieur le Baron there are four horses to manage, and they're restless.
They do things that seem silly to your mighty mind but they're clever and restless, and refuse to be humdrum and dull.
The boys are a bit restless the first day.
You, restless soul, will be moving farther and farther off.
There she stretches, a wide-open country. facing' what some history fellers are bound to call a restless period.
The crowd is getting very restless.
Be patient with restless young girls.
I get restless.
The children will be restless. and the parents will be interested only in them.
If she should become restless.
She had a very restless night.
An eagle can putter around rugged mountaintops but not in a cage, because he'd be restless and unhappy.
I'm just restless.
But I'm just the restless, adventurous type I guess.
Always was a restless, good-for-nothing, no-account chap.
I've gone far since I was a slave on your uncle's plantation. thousands of restless, hectic miles.
I've been as restless as.
He might get restless.
Yes, but I'm so restless.
It gives you that restless feeling.
She's a good detective, but she gets restless. unless something's happening that makes her blood run cold.
It makes the gentlemen restless more than usual I mean.
SONIA, YOU'RE ALWAYS SO RESTLESS.
Why is she so restless tonight?
Things weren't changing so swiftly, and life wasn't so restless.
I'm too restless for marriage.
I'm too restless to dance.
These western people seem helpless in their restless pursuit of progress.
He began to get restless, wanted to get moving, go places, and then he went on that last trip in that silly little boat.
When you brought him in last night, he was so restless, that they gave him a hypodermic.
I cost a lot not to do anything. I get restless.
There's life and death in that restless sound, And eternity too.
Said you were moving around, restless.
Restless sort of girl, but marriage will settle her, I suppose.

News and current affairs

Even Singaporeans are beginning to get a little restless.
Voters are restless, as the Greek election result demonstrated.
As the crew of the now-burdened rescue vessel waits for relief, they are forced to deal with restless passengers.
Empires can impose order and stability for a long time; but imperialists - rather like many Americans today - become tired, and their subjects grow restless.
No single national culture is the driving force but, instead, globalization is powered by a restless individualism drawing on a growing store of mass symbols.
Moreover, like his West African counterpart, Mugabe has presided over a decaying economy and a restless population.
Imaginative solutions are needed to make Spain's restless regions, particularly Catalonia and the Basque Country, fit comfortably within Spain.
Yet Cairo remains restless, and the government fears another outpouring of support for democracy, as the judges have called for renewed nationwide demonstrations.
If the benefits do not come quickly - and for most people they do not - they get restless.
In addition, there are substantial concerns about political stability in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia's oil-rich Eastern Province, and potentially even in Kuwait and Jordan - all areas with substantial Shia or other restless populations.
Under American leadership, it is the West that has emerged as the restless, disturbing force in international affairs.
Whatever the case, the region's populations are growing restless, and the gap between rulers and ruled is widening.
They are a restless breed, flitting round the world's trouble spots, pen and camera poised.
A little flexibility here should also be a helpful message to those getting restless in Taiwan that China really can accommodate difference.
Moreover, China's already restless Muslim-majority province of Xinjiang, which borders on Afghanistan, might be dangerously affected by a Taliban takeover there, or by the country's dismemberment.
I felt a prodigious, restless energy that I suspected he could not turn off if he wanted to. Soon after I began to recount my observations, he took me to a map of Vietnam and asked me to locate the areas of destruction.

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