REST in a Sentence
Learn REST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
356 example sentences for REST, such as:
1. Let's have a rest and then we'll try again.
2. The rest, my dear Louisa, is for you to decide.
3. The stonework stands out from the rest of the wall.
4. When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
5. Michael is tired and he has to rest after his long trip.
2. The rest, my dear Louisa, is for you to decide.
3. The stonework stands out from the rest of the wall.
4. When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
5. Michael is tired and he has to rest after his long trip.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of REST
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rest
v. not move; be in a resting position
n. a musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 I've told you all I know myself now, for the rest is mere surmise and conjecture.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
2 In future you shall send up Wiggins alone to report, and the rest of you must wait in the street.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
Context Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VI. TOBIAS GREGSON SHOWS WHAT HE CAN DO
3 For three days and three nights he had allowed himself neither rest nor repose.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
4 We will raise as much as we can in money, and let the rest go.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
Context Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
5 He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.
6 When Boxer heard this he fetched the small straw hat which he wore in summer to keep the flies out of his ears, and flung it on to the fire with the rest.
7 He took them up into a loft which could only be reached by a ladder from the harness-room, and there kept them in such seclusion that the rest of the farm soon forgot their existence.
8 The rest of the animals sat facing them in the main body of the barn.
9 Nothing could have been achieved without Boxer, whose strength seemed equal to that of all the rest of the animals put together.
10 Afterwards Squealer made a round of the farm and set the animals' minds at rest.
11 He intended, he said, to devote the rest of his life to learning the remaining twenty-two letters of the alphabet.
12 Well, sir, he was like the rest of us; every time he looked at my prisoner, I saw that Sawbones turn sick and white with the desire to kill him.
13 The clashing and banging band attached to the horse-riding establishment, which had there set up its rest in a wooden pavilion, was in full bray.
14 The rest of its features were voluntary, and they were these.
15 The rest, my dear Louisa, is for you to decide.
Example Sentence: (146 in 10 pages)
1 Many older people may prefer not to be separated out from the rest of the adult population.
2 Exercise, temperance, fresh air, and needful rest are the best of all physicians.
3 Run along now, sonny; mummy wants to have a rest.
4 My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
5 If doctors fail thee, be these three thy doctors; rest, cheerful-ness, and moderate diet.
6 When the belly is full, the bones would be at rest.
7 To have a stomach and lack meat; to have meat and lack a stomach; to lie in bed and cannot rest; are great miseries.
8 Ensure that our traditional markets are looked after; for the rest, I am not much concerned.
9 She doesn't stand on her dignity and treat the rest of us as servants.
10 Michael is tired and he has to rest after his long trip.
11 Let's have a rest and then we'll try again.
12 An hour in the morning before breakfast is worth two all the rest of the day.
13 The kitchen is sectioned off from the rest of the room by a half wall.
14 The stonework stands out from the rest of the wall.
15 The map shows the rest of the western region, encompassing nine states.