Examples of whole rest in a Sentence
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Anyone who cites these examples as proof that one person might be right while the whole rest of the world is wrong is being neither honest nor historically accurate.
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Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
And then the whole rest of it is dealing with the consequences of these many years of him being imprisoned.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2022
And that was kind of bothering me throughout the whole rest of the year.
—Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 24 June 2022
So how does something in this tiny region influence the whole rest of it?
—Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2022
Yes, the Northern Plains and the Heartland was improving and the Rocky Mountain states, but the whole rest of the country had rising cases.
—CBS News, 24 Jan. 2021
If my aim in life was to save time and money, well, there’s the whole rest of the country just for that!
—Anne Kadet, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
What differentiates The Ministry for the Future from most contemporary fictional future prognostications is that the whole rest of the book is dedicated to reacting to that heat wave and putting measures in place to prevent more such disasters.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2020
The whole rest of that day seemed a trip back and forth through the small pain in both breasts and my acute awareness of the fact of death in the right one.
—Audre Lorde, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2020
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Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 27 Aug. 2015
And then the whole rest of it is dealing with the consequences of these many years of him being imprisoned.
—Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 23 Aug. 2022
And that was kind of bothering me throughout the whole rest of the year.
—Dave Clark, The Enquirer, 24 June 2022
So how does something in this tiny region influence the whole rest of it?
—Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2022
Yes, the Northern Plains and the Heartland was improving and the Rocky Mountain states, but the whole rest of the country had rising cases.
—CBS News, 24 Jan. 2021
If my aim in life was to save time and money, well, there’s the whole rest of the country just for that!
—Anne Kadet, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020
What differentiates The Ministry for the Future from most contemporary fictional future prognostications is that the whole rest of the book is dedicated to reacting to that heat wave and putting measures in place to prevent more such disasters.
—Christian Holub, EW.com, 14 Oct. 2020
The whole rest of that day seemed a trip back and forth through the small pain in both breasts and my acute awareness of the fact of death in the right one.
—Audre Lorde, Glamour, 7 Oct. 2020
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First Known Use
1839, in the meaning defined above
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“Whole rest.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whole%20rest. Accessed 28 Nov. 2023.
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whole rest
noun
: a musical rest equal in time to a whole note
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