Example Sentences

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A death doula arrives to accompany the dying person in the distress, the restfulness, the stillness, the pain, the all of it, and to walk them right up to the unknown.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2025

Instead, he commandeered his time back, turned down potential seven-figure deals in a quest for some internal restfulness, with an emphasis on what he wanted to do, not what others wanted from him.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2022

Google does send what it refers to as “sleep event data,” which includes the time you went to bed, time you woke up, coughing, and restfulness to the cloud.

From The Verge • Mar. 16, 2021

“The desert is lovely in its restfulness — the great brooding stillness over and through everything is so full of God,” she wrote in 1895.

From New York Times • May 19, 2016

I have always thought a man should own a house near the place he was bom, where he might find a restfulness that eludes him elsewhere.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela