How to Use restive in a Sentence

restive

adjective

• That night in April, an idea took root and rippled through the restive crowd.
  — Anant Gupta, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• The restive region of Chechnya was the site of two separatist wars in the 1990s.
  — Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 19 May 2018
• Ethiopia is a key regional ally of the U.S. in the restive Horn of Africa region.
  — oregonlive.com, 23 June 2019
• Zubair was in Shirzad, one of Nangarhar’s most restive districts.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2019
• Awadat does not doubt that the young people around him are upset and restive.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 30 May 2023
• The Georgians will train Afghanistan’s police and troops in a restive area near the Pakistan border.
  — Jeremy Redmon, ajc, 10 July 2018
• And in some ways, the most important part of the hearings was to calm his restive employees.
  — Nicholas Thompson, WIRED, 13 Apr. 2018
• Some children have been at this tiny complex in the center of a restive border city for more than a year.
  — Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2021
• The crippling protests were mainly in towns across the restive Oromia region, the largest of Ethiopia’s nine provinces.
  — Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• The restive area along the border has been the scene of several attacks by armed groups as well as drug smugglers.
  — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
• All along the wall the aunts are restive, some straining to listen, leaning forward, cupping a paw to an ear.
  — Anne Carson, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• In one of the low points of his tenure, Gorbachev sanctioned a crackdown on the restive Baltic republics in early 1991.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Aug. 2022
• There was a terrible attack in the restive province of Baluchistan on the eve of the election that killed 28 people.
  — Ayesha Jalal, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2024
• Beyond his gut sense of the country’s restive mood, however, Biden did not bring much of a vision to the moment.
  — Alexander Burns, The New York Review of Books, 29 Dec. 2022
• Both nations have long fought militants in the restive Baloch region along the border.
  — Sophia Saifi, CNN, 28 Jan. 2024
• Thousands of troops were deployed to the restive region amid fears that the government's steps could spark unrest.
  — Emily Schmall, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• As this video shows, poor planning and a restive crowd encouraged by President Trump set the stage for the riot.
  — New York Times, 1 Mar. 2021
• Elsewhere, the Denver strike vote was not the only other sign of a restive teacher labor force.
  — Amanda Lee Myers, The Seattle Times, 23 Jan. 2019
• Of course, a restive world could present Biden with unexpected problems.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 29 Dec. 2021
• At times the crowd grew restive and fights nearly broke out when someone tried to jump the line, which was a temptation because there was no cordon.
  — Laura Saunders, WSJ, 20 May 2022
• Some became restive including Charles Mudd of Louisville.
  — Mandy McLaren, The Courier-Journal, 3 May 2018
• But the larger atmospheric payoff lingers; the film first gets under the skin, then sits in the skeleton like a trapped, restive spirit.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 8 Dec. 2023
• Advertisement Even in a restive year, the healthcare dispute stands out.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
• Crippled by their beaus’ infidelities, the ladies are restive when spilling out their grievances.
  — Cydney Lee, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2023
• Once split between north and south, California is divided now more along an east-west line that takes in large parts of the restive north.
  — Scott Wilson, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2022
• The restive region remains under direct rule from Madrid.
  — Jeannette Neumann, WSJ, 25 May 2018
• And the Kashmir Valley, the most restive part of the state and home to as many as 8 million people, remains under a punishing blockade.
  — Atul Loke, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2019
• Even some Democrats, faced with restive constituents, have appeared to distance themselves from support for the war effort.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2022
• The senator had been under increasing pressure from the restive, and at times hostile wing of his party that has aligned firmly with Trump.
  — Michael Tackett, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• And thousands of rebels from Ethiopia’s restive Tigray region are stationed at a camp in eastern Sudan, officials and aid groups said — part of a combustible mix that threatens to open a new front in the war.
  — Declan Walsh Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024