How to Use restless in a Sentence

restless

adjective

• He started to feel restless and discontent in his job.
• The audience was becoming restless.
• Light can cause restless sleep.
  — Jessica Swirble, Verywell Health, 11 May 2026
• Long car rides can make for fussy, restless kids.
  — Dr. Katherine Williamson, Boston Herald, 15 Mar. 2026
• This shift doesn't just equate to a restless night.
  — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
• Night came and the fox fell in and out of restless sleep.
  — Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
• Not an easy task to keep a restless child inside for three years.
  — Ilya Kaminsky august 20, Literary Hub, 20 Aug. 2025
• Still restless, the duo set off to hitchhike across the world.
  — Preston Fore, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
• The time’s come to confront that restless shade once and for all.
  — Minerva, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Dec. 2017
• This news doesn’t quite do the trick in calming my restless mind.
  — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 9 Sep. 2024
• At times, the crowd grew restless and bored, and some left early.
  — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 19 July 2024
• Later, as a restless adult who quit law school and bounced from job to job.
  — Dan Horn, Cincinnati.com, 24 June 2017
• Worse yet, the locals are restless.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 29 Apr. 2026
• For all the restless nights, there will be even more days filled with laughter and love.
  — Anna Moeslein, Parents, 21 Jan. 2025
• The ancestors restless in the back of my mind would not let me.
  — Tanya Talaga july 24, Literary Hub, 24 July 2025
• But this purple plant isn’t the only cure for a restless night.
  — Miranda Silva, Architectural Digest, 17 Mar. 2025
• The remains have proved almost as restless as the man.
  — Matthew Redmond august 13, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2025
• The magnetic field around our sun is a restless thing.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 9 Dec. 2025
• Carter pleaded her case above the squeals of a restless baby in the gallery.
  — Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, ProPublica, 9 Jan. 2020
• The anger remains his own, the restless ghosts his alone to banish.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 13 Dec. 2017
• The natives get restless with a quarter-and-a-half left.
  — Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 6 Nov. 2025
• The natives get restless with a quarter-and-a-half left.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 5 Nov. 2025
• What better way to mark 90 years than to put a restless brain to work?
  — Anne Quito, Quartz at Work, 26 June 2019
• Lemieux entered the bowl, roars stirring like a restless sea.
  — Dan Robson, New York Times, 29 May 2026
• Consider restless nights a thing of the past.
  — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 11 June 2026
• Consider restless nights a thing of the past.
  — Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 12 Mar. 2026
• But—and spoiler alert—the spirits dwelling here aren’t just restless.
  — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 14 Oct. 2017
• The thrill of this movie lies in what's implied not seen and on quick glimpses of restless spirits.
  — Bianca Rodriguez, Marie Claire, 21 Sep. 2020
• Both going and staying are restless states.
  — Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
• Wall Street has started to get restless as the clock keeps ticking.
  — Dade Hayes, Deadline, 3 Apr. 2025