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How to use restlessly in a sentence

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The tide has driven multitudes of waders onto the shell and shingle banks, where a long line of roosting birds shuffles restlessly.
The beast was as huge as an aurochs, its glossy midnight mane shining in the sunlight as it pawed the ground restlessly with one forehoof.
My eyes roamed restlessly around the room looking for something to look at.
I paced restlessly around my small cell, stomach twisting with anxiety, and hunger.
But often the songsters can be difficult to locate as they flit restlessly in the foliage of a windbreak of lofty cypresses.
Gradually he fell silent, fidgeting restlessly on his seat and playing with the salt and pepper shakers set in the middle of the island.
Throughout his life he was a ceaseless experimenter and his style changed restlessly.
The smell of horses and sweat filled the air, the men and horses walking or trotting around restlessly.
His jaw moved restlessly and the hyenas kept yipping and throwing their heads about.
She ordered a white wine from a passing waiter, drumming her fingers on the table restlessly.
Hoss had squirmed restlessly, obviously having a tale to unburden, but uncertain where to begin.
Klause sat restlessly for a while, humming tunelessly and wishing there was actually homework to do.
The group reaches the elevator queue to find a crowd of roughly two hundred students milling about restlessly.
They gather in small groups, shifting restlessly from foot to foot, exchanging pleasantries about the weather.
The dynamic air flowed through her long hair, straightening it as it fluttered restlessly behind her.
The black horses tossed their heads and whinnied loudly, stamping the ground and flicking their tails restlessly.
The engine rumbled restlessly as the wings were cranked out, and for a moment, she couldn't bring herself to move.
This weekend, somewhere on the Mediterranean coast, a short, grey Frenchman sits hunched over a notepad, restlessly jotting memories.
Her great wings beat restlessly against her back as she waited for the others to join her.
It burns restlessly, sometimes with a small, sometimes with a larger flame.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In despair the Frankists wandered restlessly about the borderlands of Podolia and Bessarabia.
She found Mary busy with her sewing and Stefan rather restlessly cleaning his pallette and brushes.
I was smoking restlessly in the conservatory of the hotel when a bellboy brought me the card of Captain le Vicmte de Barsac.
At Tom's words, the watchers and crewmen who were crowded into the recoverer's control room stirred restlessly.
Skirt and a cream linen blazer that rucked up over her shoulders, moving restlessly.
In this hotel we waited two weeks, patiently at times, restlessly at other times.
There it was stiflingly hot, so when he lay down he pushed aside the coverlet, and even then he thrashed restlessly.
The boy stirred restlessly, gave her a surprised look, and began to whittle again at his stick, with the dull, broken-bladed knife in his hand.
Mrs. Clemens often wrote that he was restlessly impatient to return.
Heathcliff's step, restlessly measuring the floor, and he frequently broke the silence by a deep inspiration, resembling a groan.
Presently he heard the gadfly move restlessly two or three times.
Mrs. Lorraine clasped her hands, and moved restlessly on her seat.
Alexander moved about restlessly and fell to poking the fire.
As he was at his ordinary daily work his mind was restlessly busy.
But the animal is a going concern, restlessly active in many ways.
Jane lay anxiously and restlessly in bed with a feverish headache, wondering how her sister could manage without her.
As she crossed it with her precious burden, she looked constantly and restlessly from side to side.
After Dan's departure in the sleigh, Tom wandered about restlessly.
Wragge, restlessly shifting the positions of the circulars as a child restlessly shifts the position of a new set of toys.
He left his seat restlessly and leaned against the mantelshelf.
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