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How to use contentment in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Contentment means the state or degree of being contented or satisfied. Example: “Then they got out their boat from the boat-house, sculled down the river home, and at a very late hour sat down to supper in their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy and contentment.”

Examples of contentment by meaning

nounThe state or degree of being contented or satisfied.

  • Then they got out their boat from the boat-house, sculled down the river home, and at a very late hour sat down to supper in their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy and contentment.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC

More sentences with contentment

  • To unbrand our daughters, we must pursue inner beauty and reclaim the biblical value of contentment.2022, Dannah Gresh, Six Ways to Keep the “Little” in Your Girl, page 121. From the entry unbrand
  • This vision brings Faust to the fateful moment when he speaks the aforedetermined words of contentment.1987, Ida H. Washington, Echoes of Lucian in Goethe's Faust, volume 1, Lewiston, N.Y.; Queenston, Ont.: The Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN…. From the entry aforedetermined
  • That is your secret—contentment; I am 24 and I've never known it.1981, Colin Welland, Chariots of Fire, spoken by Harold M. Abrahams. From the entry content
  • Margo sighed her contentment. ‘Selling narco in Harlem is the life.1971, Robert Deane Pharr, SRO. From the entry narco
  • "How do you feel now?" 'In a perfectly drivelling state of contentment.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 171. From the entry drivelling
  • The merry ring of heart-free laughter filled the air, and all around were peace and contentment.1938, Alan Villiers, The Rotarian, page 14. From the entry heart-free
  • But the very palpability of the Hooks' happiness and contentment works against this novel's larger design, undermining Mr.2007 November 9, Michiko Kakutani, “Uncorking One Familys Secret”, in New York Times. From the entry palpability
  • The warmth drowsed them and replaced contentment.1930, Norman Lindsay, chapter 1, in Every Mother’s Son [Redheap], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation…. From the entry drowse
  • Contentment with the past, or the cold conventionality of custom, may no longer shut the door on science.1907, Mark Twain, Christian Science, Appendix A. From the entry shut the door
  • Sprawled out on the dugout bench, a picture of contentment, Danny Murtaugh sprayed a stream of tobacco juice onto the red gravel floor.1974 September 6, Pat Livingston, “Bad Time for a Break”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume 91, number 74, Pittsburgh, Pa., →OCLC, page 26…. From the entry telecastress
  • Malone, he looks trained to a hair, and as he surveyed the crowd a smile of good-humored contentment pervaded his honest but homely face.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, “‘A Procession! A Procession!’”, in The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC…. From the entry to a hair
  • The Mole waggled his toes from sheer happiness, spread his chest with a sigh of full contentment, and leaned back blissfully into the soft cushions.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry waggle
  • Oh, they seem to be the picture of contentment, tripping about with their triple-sanitized trowels and weeding forks, but in reality these neatniks are a seething cauldron of aversions.2006, Des Kennedy, The Passionate Gardener: Adventures of an Ardent Green Thumb, Greystone Books, →ISBN, page 208. From the entry blennophobia
  • Then I drove up Signal Hill and in the stark, early morning light, the bay still covered in mist, watched the sun rise, sticky-fingering sausages and chips in contentment.1987, C. J. Cummings, Too deep then. From the entry sticky-finger
  • There is a strong feeling of renunciation, but this is softened somewhat by her enigmatic smile which implies a certain contentment and satisfaction, and the music dies away al niente.2005, Michael Halliwell, Opera and the Novel: The Case of Henry James. From the entry al niente

Meaning of contentment

  1. noun The state or degree of being contented or satisfied.
  2. noun Happiness in one's situation; satisfaction.
  3. noun The neurophysiological experience of satisfaction and being at ease in one's situation, body, and/or mind.

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Questions about contentment in a sentence

How do you use contentment in a sentence?
Contentment is used as a noun. For example: “Then they got out their boat from the boat-house, sculled down the river home, and at a very late hour sat down to supper in their own cosy riverside parlour, to the Rat's great joy and contentment.”
What is a short sentence with contentment?
“The warmth drowsed them and replaced contentment.”
What does contentment mean?
Contentment means the state or degree of being contented or satisfied.

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