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How to use restful in a sentence

11 example sentences · adjective

Restful means peaceful; having a peaceful aspect. Example: “After a hard day, Sue found the beauty of the park especially restful.”

Examples of restful by meaning

adjectivePeaceful; having a peaceful aspect.

  • After a hard day, Sue found the beauty of the park especially restful.

adjectiveRestorative; aiding rest.

  • A restful night's sleep mended his spirits.

More sentences with restful

  • The leaves of an overhanging banyan tree cast restful shadows across the blanket.2010, Lauren Willig, The Betrayal of the Blood Lily. From the entry whiffling
  • That it was restful not having to put up a front all the time.2007, Janice Kay Johnson, Christmas Presents and Past, page 230. From the entry midnightmare
  • Dag and I are drying glasses, a strangely restful activity, and we're listening to Mr.1991, Douglas Coupland, “Celebrities Die”, in Generation X, New York: St. Martin's Press, →OCLC, page 111. From the entry shtick
  • "Very cool and restful with this armoured steel between us and the dust and scurry of the hot July afternoon above.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry scurry
  • Why recall the memory of those acheful days, when all the pleasant and restful features of the island are uncatalogued?1908, E. J. Banfield, The Confessions of a Beachcomber (T. Fisher Unwin London). From the entry acheful
  • Even if we start with a mini-Sabbath, say just a few hours every weekend, we can find that restful place for ourselves.2021, Kathleen O'Brien, Reclaim Your Right to Grow Old, Outskirts Press, →ISBN, page 62. From the entry Pinterest
  • From what General Slate said, Prettyboy will just get ooched out of Fort Murray and shipped to some nice restful post in Alaska.1960, Don Tracy, Deadly to Bed (Permabooks; M4176), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →OCLC, page 174. From the entry ooch
  • For at night, into the back of our stores and restful suburbs come these quiet, switchbladed ambassadors to remind us that the boundary issues are not yet settled.1960, Federal Probation News Letter, page 31. From the entry switchbladed
  • Miniver; sweet creatures, so easily entertained, so biddably diverted from senseless controversy into comfortable monologue: there was nothing in the world so restful as a really good English colonel."1940 August 5, “This England”, in Time. From the entry biddably

Meaning of restful

  1. adjective Peaceful; having a peaceful aspect.
  2. adjective Restorative; aiding rest.

Full definition of restful

Questions about restful in a sentence

How do you use restful in a sentence?
Restful is used as an adjective. For example: “After a hard day, Sue found the beauty of the park especially restful.”
What is a short sentence with restful?
“A restful night's sleep mended his spirits.”
What does restful mean?
Restful means peaceful; having a peaceful aspect.

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