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
• Awadat does not doubt that the young people around him are upset and restive.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 30 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• There were obviously some restive players in Black and Gold sweaters who’d had enough of Cassidy’s brand of bluntness.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2022
• After years of relative calm, Russia is restive once more.
  — Alexey Kovalev, Star Tribune, 26 Jan. 2021
• As the lockdown tightened, residents grew more restive.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022
• Chants from the latest protests focused anger on Iran’s rulers, as well as fears that the government’s aim was to force a restive population out of the region, Bakhshi said.
  — Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
• The problem is that the scandal could derail his efforts to reset his government and soothe the restive backbenchers in his party.
  — Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Jan. 2022
• Both parties will be trying to persuade a restive, anxious electorate.
  — Thomas Beaumont, Star Tribune, 5 July 2021
• For more than a year, the epicenter has been the restive refugee camp in the northern city of Jenin, the target of a deadly two-day Israeli military incursion this week.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• The future government of Spain's restive Catalonia region is in the hands of a man who is spending his nights in a prison cell for committing acts of sedition against the state.
  — Joseph Wilson, Star Tribune, 15 Feb. 2021
• Part of it was the status quo leadership of the era—which, for the most part, included Bill Clinton—and part of it was a restive electorate who wanted change but couldn’t define what that meant.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 27 June 2022
• And in fact, other countries take cues from us on how to discipline their restive populations.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Apr. 2021
• And in Niger, long the centerpiece of France’s counterterrorism efforts in the restive Sahel, anti-French rhetoric abounds.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• Zahedan, in Iran’s long-restive Sistan and Baluchestan province, has seen the deadliest violence in protests so far.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Oct. 2022
• As in 2009, if for different reasons, there is a restive mood among the public, a sense that the nation’s leaders have become decadent, complacent, out of touch.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 19 June 2022
• In launching its new war, Hamas has been trying to trigger a security breakdown in the West Bank as well, where the population has been restive.
  — Ghaith Al-Omari, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
• The fate of the deal now rests in the hands of a restive Congress, where Democrats and Republicans began raising objections hours before their leaders struck their bargain.
  — Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 27 May 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024