resting
adjective
that rests; not active.
Example Sentences
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Till then I see what’s really always there, unresting death a whole day nearer now.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2018
Nevertheless it is true to say that the character of Merivel owes a debt to Pepys – to the sublime diarist's willingness to expose himself to unresting self-scrutiny.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 28, 2012
"Yet still the unresting castles thresh / In fullgrown thickness every May" - lines from which poet's paean to spring greenery, "The Trees"?
From The Guardian ● May 21, 2012
Contest, if not conflict, is part of man's unresting nature; the urge that needs a "moral equivalent for war" finds outlets other than politics, champions other than Molotov and Byrnes.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had shown all the qualities of a great commander: clearness and steadiness of purpose, complete confidence, the boldness and unresting energy of genius.
From Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men by Mary Agnes Hamilton
