restively
- a word derived from restive.
Example Sentences
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Cut off from his past and uncertain about the future, he suffers from a familiar contemporary complaint that this story restively circles without naming, one that looks a lot like the modern condition.
From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2023
There’s also a lack of geographic focus; whereas Kubrick homed in on the Overlook and pretty much stayed there, Flanagan’s film is all over the place, crossing restively from state to state.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 8, 2019
He attended the University of Granada, but restively.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2015
But beyond the walls of the Beaux Arts, a few men were stirring restively.
From Time Magazine Archive
The brush along the road stirred restively under a new and unexpected population of gray tigers and gray bears.
From "The Red Pony" by John Steinbeck
