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. Community unrest is rapidly approaching the flashpoint.
5. The social unrest has its origins in economic problems.
2. There is growing unrest throughout the country.
3. There was widespread industrial unrest in the north.
4. Community unrest is rapidly approaching the flashpoint.
5. The social unrest has its origins in economic problems.
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Meanings and Examples of UNREST
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unrest
n. a feeling of restless agitation
n. a state of agitation or turbulent change or development
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.
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.
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.
4 At those moments the soft speeches of Claude Melnotte rose to his lips and eased his unrest.
5 Bodily unrest and chill and weariness beset him, routing his thoughts.
6 At once from every part of his being unrest began to irradiate.
7 A conscious unrest seethed in his blood.
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.
9 All this must mean a time of intense ethical ferment, of religious heart-searching and intellectual unrest.
10 And neither world thought the other world's thought, save with a vague unrest.
11 "Unhasting and unresting," was his motto.
12 But an unresting doubt flew hither and thither before his mind.
13 Long they stood together, peering over the gray unresting water.
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.
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.
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.