Example Sentences

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He wasn’t one of those bullies striving for importance through his child, sitting unquietly in a courtside box with his mouth tight with tension, killing a young spirit with dissatisfied glances.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2015

Peiji, who made his way to Taiwan with the retreating KMT, lives very unquietly in neon-struck Taipei.

From Time Magazine Archive

Frodo slept unquietly, turning and tossing, and sometimes murmuring.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

The name of the Puits d'Amour was then given to the well; and no young maiden ever dared to draw water from it after sunset, for fear of the spirit that dwelt unquietly within.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. by Various

Gentleman: One minded like the weather, most unquietly.

From The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Biese, Alfred