CONTENTED in a Sentence

Learn CONTENTED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

284 example sentences for CONTENTED, such as:

1. Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
2. I'm perfectly content just to lie in the sun.
3. The porter contented himself with waking Basque.
4. For once, his usually verbose wife was content to listen.
5. Despite its very low fat content, it is deliciously creamy.

Stories of USA Today
Materials for Reading & Listening Practice
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of CONTENTED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
contented
 a.  satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She contented herself with plucking Jean Valjean by the skirt of his coat.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—WHICH WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH GAS LANTERNS
2  Fauchelevent limped along behind the hearse in a very contented frame of mind.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
3  Marius indulged in melancholy conjectures; he dared not watch the porte cochere during the day; he contented himself with going at night to gaze upon the red light of the windows.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IX—ECLIPSE
4  All this explains why the early revolutions contented themselves with finding a man, Cromwell or Napoleon; and why the second absolutely insisted on finding a family, the House of Brunswick or the House of Orleans.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
5  The bourgeoisie is simply the contented portion of the people.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—BADLY SEWED
6  Up to that time, she had contented herself with watching him on his passage along the boulevard without ever seeking to encounter him.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG
7  Gavroche disdainfully contented himself, by way of reprisal, with elevating the tip of his nose with his thumb and opening his hand wide.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
8  It was a boy less than ten years of age, ragged, very small, yellow, with an odd phiz, a vivacious eye, an enormous amount of hair drenched with rain, and wearing a contented air.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
9  The porter contented himself with waking Basque.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE
10  So you are going to be perfectly contented in your abominable Rue de l'Homme Arme.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER
11  As to Athos, faithful to his system of reticence, he contented himself with interrogating d'Artagnan by a look.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 9 D'ARTAGNAN SHOWS HIMSELF
12  With a little more heart, he might have been contented with this new conquest; but the principal features of his character were ambition and pride.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
13  Grimaud contented himself with pointing d'Artagnan out to his master with his finger.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT
14  de Treville contented himself with asking d'Artagnan if he could do anything for him, but d'Artagnan answered that he was supplied with all he wanted.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 40 A TERRIBLE VISION
15  Grimaud therefore added nothing to his speech, but contented himself with pointing his index finger in the direction of the hedge, announcing by this gesture the cardinal and his escort.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 51 OFFICER
Example Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
16  Despite its very low fat content, it is deliciously creamy.
17  Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
18  To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of content.
19  It does sometimes help to know the nutritional content of foods.
20  I'm perfectly content just to lie in the sun.
21  For once, his usually verbose wife was content to listen.
22  He was content to bide his time patiently, waiting for the opportunity to approach her.
23  The research content is the pattern design of upholstery fabrics.
24  Television commercials might seem more professional but beware of mistaking the gloss for the content.
25  Some large chains of supermarkets publish booklets on calorie, fat, and fibre content of their foods.
26  The President's advisors are content to remain in the background.
27  Never use aluminium as poisonous seepage will react with the plant alkaloids and its vitamin content, thus damaging the therapeutic properties.
28  The brain is hungry not for method but for content, especially the latter which contains generalizations that are powerful, precise, and explicit.
29  Aerators reduce the manure nitrogen content, require fairly high capital investment, and are expensive to operate and maintain.
30  But the content is very difficult to locate, and often in obsolete video formats.