REST in a Sentence

Learn REST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

356 example sentences for REST, such as:

1. He sifted the relevant data from the rest.
2. The rest, my dear Louisa, is for you to decide.
3. You carry these two bags, and I'll bring the rest.
4. Business sweetens pleasure, and labour sweetens rest.
5. Your statement is in conflict with the rest of the evidence.

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 Meanings and Examples of REST
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
rest
 n.  the other things, people, or parts that remain or that have not been mentioned
 v.  stop doing a particular activity or stop being active for a period in order to relax
 v.  remain in a particular state or place
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I've told you all I know myself now, for the rest is mere surmise and conjecture.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2  In future you shall send up Wiggins alone to report, and the rest of you must wait in the street.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3  For three days and three nights he had allowed himself neither rest nor repose.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
4  We will raise as much as we can in money, and let the rest go.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
5  He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
6  When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
7  He took them up into a loft which could only be reached by a ladder from the harness-room, and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
8  The rest of the animals sat facing them in the main body of the barn.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
9  Nothing could have been achieved without Boxer, whose strength seemed equal to that of all the rest of the animals put together.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
10  Afterwards Squealer made a round of the farm and set the animals' minds at rest.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
11  He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
12  Well, sir, he was like the rest of us; every time he looked at my prisoner, I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER STORY OF THE DOOR
13  The clashing and banging band attached to the horse-riding establishment, which had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion, was in full bray.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
14  The rest of its features were voluntary, and they were these.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
15  The rest, my dear Louisa, is for you to decide.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence: (146 in 10 pages)
16  No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
17  I wish you'd shut up for a moment and listen to what the rest of us have to say.
18  Don't worry about my illness; what I need is nothing but a few days' rest.
19  He that would live in peace and rest must hear and see, and say the best.
20  He was standing a bit apart from the rest of us, watching us.
21  Business sweetens pleasure, and labour sweetens rest.
22  Health care in the capital compares poorly with that in the rest of the country.
23  You carry these two bags, and I'll bring the rest.
24  The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region.
25  Each child had to give a short speech to the rest of the class.
26  The rest of the clan thinks the uniform is only fit for a barbarian or a man of the lowest class.
27  She's on complete bed rest, antibiotics and plenty of fluids.
28  It is rare for the responsibility for causing conflict to rest solely on one side.
29  Your statement is in conflict with the rest of the evidence.
30  He sifted the relevant data from the rest.