adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fitful/restless/uneasy sleep (= in which you keep moving or waking )
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My alarm woke me from a fitful sleep.
nervous/restless excitement (= a feeling of being worried and unable to relax )
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My nervous excitement increased with each passing minute.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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When Moran came back he was even more restless .
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As the crowd grew more restless , the speaker before Alan showed a film about rats whose longevity had been extended.
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He was much more restless than last night, and, despite sleeping drugs, much more wakeful.
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Spring comes early to the Riviera and it made Modigliani, always sensitive to change, more restless than ever.
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But as the business grew Mark became ever more restless .
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The outbreak of war made him more restless .
■ NOUN
night
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After a restless night , she tried again next morning, but with no more success.
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I had quite a restless night , and did not really fancy the tea I was brought in the morning.
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Something of the atmosphere in Roxie Farmer's house seemed to go home with Coffin and give him a restless night .
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Sir John had spent a restless night , tossing from side to side in his great double bed.
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After such a restless night , no doubt arguments were inevitable.
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Her sleepless, restless night seemed a long way off.
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She had a restless night and is finding it difficult to sleep because of the memories of the attack.
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Hopefully Bill Gates will have a few restless nights too.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His restless imagination led him to develop a revolutionary software product.
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The kids quickly grew restless and impatient.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a precaution, I taped plastic sheeting over both seats, in case he got restless on his perch.
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But once again I grew restless .
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I went off so often Frank began to notice and I said the heat made me restless .
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She drifted outside, restless even in the garden - was it too ordered?
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They have, almost as a birthright, a restless dissatisfaction with the status quo.
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Thinking a great many thoughts about home and the morrow, we dropped off at last into a restless sleep.