How to Use restorative in a Sentence
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Not just more hours in bed, but truly restorative rest.
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Daryl Austin,
USA Today,
23 Aug. 2025
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The next morning was slow and restorative.
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Cris Nogueira,
Travel + Leisure,
31 Dec. 2025
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There is something deeply restorative about it.
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Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
2 Oct. 2025
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Being alone can be restorative.
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Rivka Galchen,
New Yorker,
21 Sep. 2025
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Pair it with a calming playlist and deep breaths, and even a red-eye can feel restorative.
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Alesandra Dubin,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Jan. 2026
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The restorative power of all of this as one grows older.
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Literary Hub,
14 Apr. 2026
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One good night of dancing is restorative and makes my heart happy and full.
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Crystal Bedoya,
refinery29.com,
21 Aug. 2023
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Eat grapes in the evening to support better and more restorative sleep.
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Anna Giorgi,
Verywell Health,
15 Dec. 2025
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This is a perfect time to invite the gang over for a sweet, restorative night in.
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Jacqueline Tempera,
Women's Health,
30 June 2023
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This hair mask is praised for its restorative properties.
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Nora Colomer
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FOXNews.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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These mini-respites are restorative, at least in the moment.
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Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Jan. 2026
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In fact, a restorative wellness getaway doesn't have to break the bank at all.
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Madeline Weinfield,
Travel + Leisure,
30 Jan. 2026
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Sometimes the most restorative breaks happen right at home.
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Johnny C. Taylor Jr,
USA Today,
9 Sep. 2025
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Another way to soothe your new tattoo is with a restorative salve.
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Danielle Jackson,
Women's Health,
27 Jan. 2023
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Even a short walk through a nearby park can feel restorative during the winter months.
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Jamie Cuccinelli,
Martha Stewart,
11 Jan. 2026
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Sometimes the most restorative trip is the one where very little happens at all.
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Bryan Robinson,
Forbes.com,
21 June 2026
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Here’s how to bring the outdoors inside for a restful, restorative home.
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Jessica Bennett,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 Jan. 2022
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This, in turn, could possibly allow for more deep and restorative sleep.
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Jocelyn Solis-Moreira,
Scientific American,
16 Feb. 2024
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And that’s where a restorative yoga stretch routine with some feel-good stretches comes in.
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Jenny McCoy,
SELF,
30 Dec. 2022
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The way to honor that is to make your home itself feel restorative, starting at the front door.
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Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
13 June 2026
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The way to honor that is to make your home itself feel restorative, starting at the front door.
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Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
12 June 2026
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Vegetables grow on small, restorative farms.
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Robert Annis,
Midwest Living,
16 May 2026
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The only time sparks fly are when that restorative tanning bed crackles and sputters.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
7 Feb. 2024
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The air is crisp in much of the country this time of year, and nature is beautiful and restorative.
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Sharon Kwon,
SELF,
6 Dec. 2022
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This is the latest version of Tatcha's cult-favorite restorative lip mask.
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Shanna Shipin,
Glamour,
19 Oct. 2023
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Think restorative mud bath and spa treatments, and healing mineral pool soaks.
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Hugh Garvey,
Sunset Magazine,
5 Sep. 2023
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Martha’s green juice, for instance, is a staple of her own restorative morning routine.
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Jamie Cuccinelli,
Martha Stewart,
19 Jan. 2026
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And, yes, give up the afternoon coffee to promote deep, restorative sleep.
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Pien Huang,
NPR,
2 May 2026
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And is more restorative rest possible during this busy season?
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Stacy Shaw,
Fortune,
26 Dec. 2025
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And is more restorative rest possible during this busy season?
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Stacy Shaw,
The Conversation,
18 Dec. 2025
- Sleep is a powerful restorative.
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Blue skies and sunshine are uplifting for the spirit and restorative for the soul.
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Jay Brinker,
Cincinnati.com,
6 Mar. 2020
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After the flowers knock you out with wonder, the ethereal evening fragrance works like a restorative.
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R. Daniel Foster,
latimes.com,
22 June 2018
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Billed as an appetizer, the restorative is best experienced at the end of a meal, says Chiou.
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Washington Post,
19 Mar. 2021
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If the budino is a humble restorative, the torta is a celebratory pièce de résistance.
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Joshua David Stein,
WSJ,
18 Mar. 2022
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The funky aroma’s still there, an earthy restorative, a chewy celebration of the morning after, a communion bowl consecrated with hot tortillas.
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Mike Sutter,
San Antonio Express-News,
25 Jan. 2018
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And for a touch of self-care, T Magazine rounded up ingredients that can help transform a simple bath into a restorative, spalike escape.
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Remy Tumin,
New York Times,
20 Mar. 2020
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With contemporary chair designers offering new takes on the classic form, this old-fashioned summer pleasure needn’t be fusty, however—neither in terms of the seat nor the restorative, booze-free drink in your paw.
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Sarah Karnasiewicz,
WSJ,
15 June 2017
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Sound baths have nothing to do with a relaxing soak in the tub, and yet more psychiatrists, therapists and other wellness experts are acknowledging the practice as ultra restorative and cleansing.
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Zee Krstic,
Good Housekeeping,
6 May 2021
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Of course, there is something loutish about driving this very proper British convertible so barbarously fast—a little like putting four olives in your afternoon restorative at the Lord's Club.
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John Phillips,
Car and Driver,
20 May 2020
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Nelsen's — whose founder reputedly drank a pint of bitters every day as a restorative and lived to be 90 — issues Bitters Club Certificates to anyone willing to knock back a shot.
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Kurt Chandler,
chicagotribune.com,
30 June 2017
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