How to Use at rest in a Sentence

at rest

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  • There’s no need to plan gas stops, pull over at rest areas, or book a hotel just to break up the trip.
    Abby Price, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2026
  • All of this, of course, can be updated with over the air updates that happen when the car is at rest.
    Scotty Reiss, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • Long horizontal lines and bands of glazing run from the near-vertical bow to the cascading aft decks, giving the vessel a sense of movement even at rest.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The personalized skin care is based on a diagnostic method called Skin Morphosis, which analyzes skin at rest as well as in motion.
    Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Dragonflies are generally larger and hold their wings horizontally at rest, while the slender damselflies fold their wings over their abdomens.
    Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2026
  • Golf's rules generally say there is no penalty when an outside influence — including an animal — moves a ball at rest, and the ball is ordinarily replaced.
    Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 11 Aug. 2026
  • The antenna is extremely lightweight, and the team miniaturized it to be both the right size and shape to fit the tiny helicopters, which sit just 6 inches (15 centimeters) above the ground at rest.
    Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The thefts occurred at eight ATMs, in the city of Milford and at rest stops in Fairfield, Branford, Madison and Darien.
    Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Watch out for these symptoms If your pet's respiratory rate spikes to more than 40 breaths per minute at rest, Hohenhaus said that necessitates a trip to the emergency room.
    Pat Mueller, USA Today, 16 July 2026
  • This includes encryption at rest and in transit, strict access controls, segregation of duties and continuous monitoring.
    Mohamed Lazzouni, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Atlassian Service Collection supports multi-factor authentication and encrypts both data at rest and in transit.
    John Brandon, PC Magazine, 24 July 2026
  • Unlike traditional security measures that protect data only at rest or in transit, confidential computing safeguards sensitive information while it is being processed.
    John Pettit, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The company aims to protect models, AI applications, and underlying AI infrastructure, rather than securing the cloud environment or data at rest and in motion.
    Will Townsend, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026

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