Sentence examples for restive and from inspiring English sources

The country is restive and looking for alternatives.

Charlottesville in autumn was a restive and romantic place.

(The exception is certain Sunday afternoons, when the crowds become restive and the cooks become nervous).

When he resumed, his tack was more harmonically restive, and driven by tough, grinding rhythm.

In many places in the Arab world, average citizens are becoming increasingly restive and getting louder.

Once there, he became restive and crowded the goat, who simply went on eating.

Twenty years ago, the Reagan White House won over many restive and sympathetic House Democrats.

Among Labour MPs, the mood is as restive and perplexed as ever.

In Saudi Arabia, the eastern areas populated by Shias are again restive and fearful.

Ambrose Bierce, for instance, was sure that restive and restless should have "directly contrary meanings".

Real wages fell, making the unions restive, and in 1917 junior officers formed juntas and struck for better conditions.