Sentence examples for get restive from inspiring English sources

But as people get restive, this may change.

The trade unions are beginning to get restive too.

Tottenham Hotspur fans do frequently get restive when their team are playing scratchy football and are failing to make any headway against teams they should, on paper, be beating quite comfortably.

The City is also getting restive.

As a result, the gangs are getting restive.

The murky underworld of mutri — or Bulgarian gangsters or mugs — is also getting restive.

But that won't stop investors from getting restive if Exxon's misses become more common.

More in the mood to talk than listen, though (especially to rules), the group got restive.

The Catholic church got restive, especially when the general ignored calls for land reform from the indigenous poor.

By all accounts, Coughlin tempered his disciplinarian's streak after the 2006 season, when the team went 8-8 and the locker room got restive.

"It was a long and agonizing period, and the longer it went on, the more people got restive," says Mr. Varnedoe of the slow-motion succession.