How do you use Rest in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like position or pose, plus the exact meaning.
Rest in a sentence
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Rest meaning
- Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep.
- Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation.
- Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
Synonyms of Rest
Using Rest
- The main meaning on this page is: Relief from work or activity by sleeping; sleep. | Any relief from exertion; a state of quiet and relaxation. | Peace; freedom from worry, anxiety, annoyances; tranquility.
- Useful related words include: repose, be, lay, position.
- Possible Dutch translations are: rusten, daarbij laten, rest.
- In the example corpus, rest often appears in combinations such as: the rest, rest of, to rest.
Example sentences (20)
There is a day of rest (Heb. 4:4), a land of rest (Heb. 4:3, 5) and a remaining rest for God’s people (Heb. 4:9).
And it’s OK to have that rest period to rest your mind, to rest your body, and to not plan anything.
So I lost support from my government and from the rest of Latin America, and the rest of Africa and the rest of the developing world.
Day of rest A common theme in criticism of Hebrew Sabbath rest was idleness, found not to be in the Christian spirit of rest.
If it is at rest, it continues in a state of rest (demonstrated when a tablecloth is skilfully whipped from under dishes on a tabletop and the dishes remain in their initial state of rest).
Accordingly, in Week 12, the Patriots have a rest edge of +7 while the Giants have a rest edge of -7.
As the saying goes, there’s no rest for the wicked, and so, too, is there no rest for him.
Beginner work-to-rest interval: 40 seconds working out with 50 seconds rest for each move.
Capture is a very tiny part of hunting, but its possibility activates the field, so that, for the rest of the time there is the rest of the world, spread evenly around the hovering, delighted mind.
Ezra is understandably curious about the goings-on at home – he sacrificed everything to keep Lothal and the rest of the galaxy safe from Grand Admiral Thrawn’s clutches and, by extension, the rest of the Empire.
So I’m going to rest, let my body rest and really the main thing on my mind is my child and hoping that my girlfriend has a healthy birth.
Students in the unstructured rest group reported higher average levels of directed attention than those in the no rest control group.
That is why the antics of a few of us have formed the prism through which the rest of the international community looks at the rest of us.
The 49ers, for example, face only two teams who are on short rest, but seven teams who are on extended rest.
The rest of them are a bit more surrealistic, with Llama Llama’s head oddly disconnected from the rest of his body, or a toy train beginning in one corner of the puzzle and continuing in another as though connected by some bizarre hyperspace tunnel.
After the accident, he was taken to hospital to receive treatment and the remainder of two shows were cancelled to allow him to rest, before his understudy stepped in to finish the rest of the run in the West End.
And I will not let you rest if they won’t let us rest,” he added.
Compared to the rest of the property, located in Blackwater in Hampshire, the loo is actually in the best condition – so while you might need to invest in some renovations elsewhere, you can rest easy knowing that the toilet doesn’t need touching.
Condon and the rest of the Rockies’ rookies are in Scottsdale, Ariz. for the rest of the week to complete their onboarding process.
Crew rest areas exist on all airplanes, but what these rest areas look like depends on the airline, aircraft and the length of the flight.
Common combinations with rest
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the rest 172×
- rest of 146×
- to rest 33×
- at rest 15×
- rest and 12×
- of rest 10×
- rest in 10×
- rest for 7×
- rest on 6×
- rest is 5×