How to use "rest" in a sentence

Now I can rest my knees instead of standing up all the time.

I stand and chip for twenty minutes, then sit and rest for twenty minutes

I've just lost half of the rest of my life.

I throw the rest away

I decide to rest for a while.

I just want to stay there for the rest of my life.

Quickly, I drink the rest of the water

I want to stop and rest, but I can't

Then everything went quiet again, and after a minute or two the rest of us climbed up out of the hole.

The rest of the night was terrible

When I stopped playing, the rest of the people walked away

'Then send the rest to Jenny and little Forrest,' I said.

And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights

In your hands, my fellow citizens, more than mine, will rest the final success or failure of our course

I watched him for the rest of the evening and he seemed to be a good man

'But what about the candlesticks? I gave you those as well, don't you remember? They're silver like the rest, and worth at least two hundred francs

If he's found guilty of stealing from the bishop - who, as you know, died a couple of years ago - and of robbing the small boy, he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.'

But the bucket was so heavy that, after a dozen steps, she had to stop for a rest

'It's worth losing a day together if we want to be happy for the rest of our lives.'

She had Marius, and she would be happy with him for the rest of her life!

"Catherine," I say again, smiling, because she is all that matters, and I can rest now because I know that she is safe.

No, he cannot feel any sympathy for her, but maybe now she can find some rest

The rest of his luggage is in the pickup truck, but not this bag

But only sometimes, because the defendant and the rest of her family, the Lee family, are wild, and he does not want to make her, or them, angry

And you know that you can rest now: everything is okay

The suitcase that can help him escape the country and live the rest of his life on a tropical island in the Bahamas.

But after a few minutes he realises how tired he is, and he thinks that maybe he can close his eyes for a moment and even rest his head against the grille.

But the rest is impossible to remember

Relax and rest.

The rest of her family jokingly called it her "Real Space."

"She's lying down, having a little rest."

"Don't you ever rest?" Sala asked.

I spent the rest of the day packing and arranging the journey

It was a place for rest, for reading and for quiet thinking.

For the rest of the time we talked about other things.

My body was tired, but my mind would not rest

She wasn't sleepy now, but she knew she had to get more rest

The tricky spelling of the title was not Tina's idea, but most of the rest of the program was her creation, and she remained pleased with what she had wrought

She had to let the dead rest in peace

He was so rich that he could retire and live the rest of his life in the high style and splendor for which he had a taste

The air was cooler in the hallway than it was in the rest of the house

He showed her through the rest of the house, which she wanted to see

He would be too drugged to move, and the carbon monoxide would do the rest

It spun across the street, jumped the curb, crashed through a hedge, destroyed a plaster birdbath, and came to rest in the middle of a snow-blanketed lawn.

We've got to hole up and get some rest

We'll worry about the rest of it later

Lots of people out there in the rest of the world - they believe in chemical and biological warfare

you know most of the rest."

And yet I knew that if I looked at the horror for much longer, I would go on screaming for the rest of my life.

The rest is part of a cat's head

You can, of course, guess the rest

You know the rest and can now do whatever you think right.

'Mrs Protheroe went upstairs for a rest and the Colonel went to his study

'You really must go away for a rest.'

'The police aren't sure.' I then told him that I was worried about my curate, Hawes, and that I was anxious that he should get away for a rest.

We got there without any problems at about nine o'clock, and the horse had an hour's rest while I had supper with my cousins and left my wife in their care.

There they stopped for the rest of the afternoon, because they were all exhausted.

We stayed there all Sunday night and all the next day - the day of the panic - in a little island of daylight, cut off by the Black Smoke from the rest of the world

But my fixed idea of reaching Leatherhead would not let me rest, and in the evening I went out again

The rest of the time he just talked to himself, and I began to realize that he had gone completely mad.

I lay for the rest of the day in a garden, too exhausted to go on.

I ate some of these and put the rest in my pockets.

'We need a rest,' said Harris.

'A rest and a change,' George added

We must rest our minds.'

You can't even find a newspaper! If you want a rest and a change, then the best place is the sea.'

They sit down on the grass to rest and laugh

While they rest, your boat goes out into the middle of the river

'Take as much as you want, and leave the rest.'

You and George row, so that I can rest.'

I prefer to stay at home and rest."

I want to rest and meditate," says Don Diego.