rest Examples

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Examples of rest in a Sentence

Examples of rest
1. Go ahead and rest. We board the plane next to last.
2. When the boss assigned the project to Tom, the rest of us were relieved to be off the hook.
3. He's not feeling well now, but he should be OK after some rest.
4. After twelve hours straight at the office, he was about out of gas and decided to go home and rest.
5. "A latent print on the palmar surface of our hands and the plantar surfaces of our foot is a scan that is entirely different from the scan on the rest of our bodies.
6. Hopes for a better winter and spring — and fall — rest with a lineup of new series, a batch that the networks believe will benefit from the full efforts of writers poststrike.
7. A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest.
8. Wow, look at how that gargoyle recesses into the rest of architecture.
9. Obtaining recuperative rest is aided by quiet, not by having ambulance sirens go by every five minutes.
Examples of rests
1. He is strongest describing place — an old motor lodge rests in “a highly unrecommended corner of Tulsa,” a Detroit house is “the sort of box that if you tripped coming in the front door, you found yourself falling out the back.”
2. to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock
3. Today, however, the pseudoconsensus of “leave as soon as we are able, stay as long as we must” rests not on a strategy but on its very opposite: a dodge.
4. He placed his hands on the arm rests of the chair.
5. A column rests on its pedestal.
6. The defense rests, your Honor. I rest my case. ‎
7. Much of the drama of “Frost/Nixon” rests on the idea that Nixon was a consummate stonewaller and Mr. Frost a glitz-hound and possible nincompoop, incapable of the obduracy required for such a reportorial effort.
8. The drop which thou shakest from thy wet hand, rests not where it falls, but to-morrow thou findest it swept away; already on the wings of the North-wind, it is nearing the Tropic of Cancer.
9. In most jurisdictions, the job of handling title defects rests primarily with the title company.
Examples of rested
1. Bull did not hesitate to obey, for the broad, cold blade of a bowie rested lightly against the back of his neck.
2. The door being open, Stranleigh walked in unannounced. A two-seated runabout [ …] stood by the window, where it could be viewed by passers-by. Further down the room rested a chassis, … .
3. The Australian batsmen were expecting an easier time with debutants Lonwabo Tsotsobe (4-50) and Wayne Parnell (1-52) replacing Dale Steyn and Ntini, while allrounder Kallis was also rested.
4. While Karson and I rested under a tree, I thought of all the things I’d tried, without success, to quell my fears: extreme exercise, decaffeination, deep breathing, blue-green algae.
5. North-South rested in five spades, with grand slams in spades and clubs laydown.
6. I rested my head in my hands. She rested against my shoulder. I rested against the wall for a minute. ‎
7. They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.
Examples of resting
1. The band played ceaselessly. Even when the other instruments were resting the pianist kept up his monotonous vamping, with a dreary furbelow for embellishment here and there, to which some few of the dancers continued to shuffle round the floor.
2. With small crosses made from palm fronds pinned to their shirts, the devils sweated and danced into a trancelike state before resting at midday for a meal of mondongo, a soup made with slow-cooked beef tripe and pigs’ feet.
3. She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.
4. This parrot is not resting, it has ceased to be.
5. After spending the night resting in an abandoned church, the group decided to move on in their quest.
6. The therapist recommends resting the mind and exercising the body.
7. Such autodissemination of insecticide from resting sites to aquatic habitats via adult mosquitoes requires particularly potent larvicides, such as the pyriproxyfen (PPF) that interrupts normal development and metamorphosis of targeted mosquitoes.