How to Use restive in a Sentence

restive

adjective

• By 1730hrs, the crowd grew restive.
  — James Reginato, Vanity Fair, 28 Apr. 2026
• Remarks are addressed to a restive crowd.
  — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 16 Apr. 2026
• That night in April, an idea took root and rippled through the restive crowd.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Awadat does not doubt that the young people around him are upset and restive.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 30 May 2023
• The club has spent much of this season engaged in a bout of restive soul-searching.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 3 May 2024
• Zubair was in Shirzad, one of Nangarhar’s most restive districts.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
• Some children have been at this tiny complex in the center of a restive border city for more than a year.
  — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2021
• Labour MPs are becoming restive.
  — Anand Menon, Time, 18 Oct. 2025
• Those who had made it to their seats sat around in the packed stadium and gradually grew restive.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2026
• And in some ways, the most important part of the hearings was to calm his restive employees.
  — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 13 Apr. 2018
• The bedroom is painted in a restive deep teal, with a massive mirror to make the space feel even bigger.
  — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 23 June 2017
• The restive area along the border has been the scene of several attacks by armed groups as well as drug smugglers.
  — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
• Of course, a restive world could present Biden with unexpected problems.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
• All along the wall the aunts are restive, some straining to listen, leaning forward, cupping a paw to an ear.
  — Anne Carson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• Crippled by their beaus’ infidelities, the ladies are restive when spilling out their grievances.
  — Cydney Lee, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2023
• Bodies, when Shuang describes them, are ill-proportioned and restive.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
• That restive beast on the edge of the Tiergarten would presumably expect nothing else.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
• Thousands of troops were deployed to the restive region amid fears that the government's steps could spark unrest.
  — Emily Schmall, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• There’s also an oven mitt and potholder combo with restive plaid and Christmas trees from Spode.
  — Christopher Murray, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2024
• Advertisement Even in a restive year, the healthcare dispute stands out.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
• Elsewhere, the Denver strike vote was not the only other sign of a restive teacher labor force.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, The Seattle Times, 23 Jan. 2019
• At times the crowd grew restive and fights nearly broke out when someone tried to jump the line, which was a temptation because there was no cordon.
  — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• Beyond his gut sense of the country’s restive mood, however, Biden did not bring much of a vision to the moment.
  — Alexander Burns, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• The Georgians will train Afghanistan’s police and troops in a restive area near the Pakistan border.
  — Jeremy Redmon, ajc, 10 July 2018
• Even some Democrats, faced with restive constituents, have appeared to distance themselves from support for the war effort.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• The restive region of Chechnya was the site of two separatist wars in the 1990s.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 19 May 2018
• Peace prevails for now in Ethiopia’s restive state of Tigray, as does a desire for unity around national ideals.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Apr. 2025
• The crippling protests were mainly in towns across the restive Oromia region, the largest of Ethiopia’s nine provinces.
  — Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• Once split between north and south, California is divided now more along an east-west line that takes in large parts of the restive north.
  — Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2022
• However, while voters are restive and angry, this ungovernability cannot all be blamed on them.
  — Ian King, CNBC, 24 June 2026