UNREST in a Sentence

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33 example sentences for UNREST, such as:

1. A conscious unrest seethed in his blood.
2. There is growing unrest throughout the country.
3. There was widespread industrial unrest in the north.
4. The social unrest has its origins in economic problems.
5. Community unrest is rapidly approaching the flashpoint.

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 Meanings and Examples of UNREST
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unrest
 n.  sleeplessness; uneasiness; disquietude
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  He returned to Mercedes and, as he brooded upon her image, a strange unrest crept into his blood.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  The sentiment of the opening bars, their languor and supple movement, evoked the incommunicable emotion which had been the cause of all his day's unrest and of his impatient movement of a moment before.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
3  His unrest issued from him like a wave of sound: and on the tide of flowing music the ark was journeying, trailing her cables of lanterns in her wake.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  At those moments the soft speeches of Claude Melnotte rose to his lips and eased his unrest.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
5  Bodily unrest and chill and weariness beset him, routing his thoughts.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  At once from every part of his being unrest began to irradiate.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
7  A conscious unrest seethed in his blood.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  I began, too, to think that my imaginings were of the night, and the gloom, and the unrest that I have gone through, and all the terrible anxiety.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
9  All this must mean a time of intense ethical ferment, of religious heart-searching and intellectual unrest.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In X
10  And neither world thought the other world's thought, save with a vague unrest.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIII
11  "Unhasting and unresting," was his motto.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 33
12  But an unresting doubt flew hither and thither before his mind.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
13  Long they stood together, peering over the gray unresting water.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In XIII
14  He had to keep still long after she went to bed, for she kept making broken-hearted ejaculations from time to time, tossing unrestfully, and turning over.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
15  They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The regime was fatally weakened by the unrest and violence.
2  The real danger is civil unrest in the east of the country.
3  It is feared that the civil unrest we are now witnessing in this country could lead to full-scale civil war.
4  Community unrest is rapidly approaching the flashpoint.
5  There is growing unrest throughout the country.
6  Economic conditions may be responsible for the creation of social unrest.
7  Fearful of continued unrest, the government imposed a state of emergency.
8  The main impulse for the unrest came from extremist Muslims.
9  There was widespread industrial unrest in the north.
10  There are growing signs of more broadly-based popular unrest.
11  The security forces counter-attacked the following day and quelled the unrest.
12  Economic conditions may lie responsible for the creation of social unrest.
13  The social unrest has its origins in economic problems.
14  Miss Minchin's demeanor was so stern and forbidding that she could quell any unrest among her students with one intimidating glance.
15  The Chevron Texaco oil company in Nigeria is using aircraft to evacuate hundreds of villagers from areas affected by unrest in the country's oil-producing southern delta region.