restive in English
No, the workers were not restive , nor were pickets lining up outside.
Use "restive" in a sentence
1. The crowd grew restive.
2. The men from Foss were restive.
3. The southern region was growing increasingly restive.
4. The audience grew restive.
5. When the singer was late, the audience grew restive.
6. They were restive under Roman rule and frequently rebelled.
7. Another hour passed and the crowd grew / became restive.
8. The crowd was growing increasingly restive.
9. Her restive fingers toyed with the battered keys.
10. If Kosovo remains unresolved and restive, the EU will not admIt'serbia as a member.
11. He said he found this a useful trick when addressing restive or sleepy audiences.
12. His face was quite stolid, But he looked at her with restive eyes.
13. The government has done nothing to ease restrictions and manufacturers are growing restive.
14. Some common synonyms of Balky are contrary, perverse, restive, and wayward
15. Similar appeals to restive Protestant gunmen came Thursday from civic and church leaders and government officials.
16. But with American business and the American public increasingly restive, the risks of miscalculation are growing.
17. Another person joined the queue and the old lady immediately behind him began to look restive.
18. Other restive ethnic groups will now be quicker to resort to arms.
19. The audience was becoming restive as they waited for the performance to begin.
20. After Diem refused to hold the elections in 19 meanwhile, the Viet Minh in the South grew restive.
21. Yet I am of opinion, this defect arises chiefly from a perverse, restive disposition.
22. For all of China's wealth, the party is desperate to appease the restive rural masses.
23. In the driving mirror I saw the driver of the estate-car was growing restive.
24. The cool, restive Halls of the Passed echo with his prophetic voice of eternal wisdom.
25. In addition, they are standardly equipped with bright TFT displays and restive analog industrial touch screens.
26. When the latter so Arrogantly assumed the command, Hiens became very restive, and was waiting for an opportunity to dethrone him
27. If his wife is restive, he sees welfare as a positive invitation from the state for her to dissolve the marriage.
28. The trouble, as you have found, is that the tier below will feel put - upon and restive.
29. With daylight and without the restraint of the fires outside the walls, they are more restive than ever.
30. The treasury was empty, and the unpaid soldiers were growing restive, almost to the point of mutiny or possible coup d'état.
31. Tribal Clashes in Sudan's western Darfur region killed at least 10 people Wednesday, a senior security official said, the latest bout of violence in the restive region.
32. However, the Assyrian governors Esarhaddon had appointed over Egypt were obliged to flee the restive populace, and while leading another army to pacify them, Esarhaddon died suddenly, in 669 BC.Assur-bani-pal or
33. ‘It comes ‘in Curvets and caprioles, with the flashing of glutted fish-runs’, and so on for a page of equally shimmery and restive fine-tuning.’ Synonyms leap , jump, spring, bounce, hop, vault, hurdle
34. Bereft, By Robert Frost Where had I heard this wind before Change like this to a deeper roar? What would it take my standing there for, Holding open a restive door, Looking down hill to a frothy shore? Summer was past and the day was past
35. On the quality of this direction it is not our place to pronounce, but we may make two general observations: first, Americans themselves are becoming restive under the regime; second, our use of American institutions, or our lazy, even abject, imitation of them has caused an uncritical acceptance of ideas and assumptions which are alien to our tradition.