DISCONTENT in a Sentence

Learn DISCONTENT 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.

64 example sentences for DISCONTENT, such as:

1. Perhaps she sensed my growing discontent.
2. She leaned back in a luxury of discontent.
3. A discontented man knows not where to sit easy.
4. Public discontent with the economy remained at a high level.
5. There was an underlying current of discontent among teachers.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISCONTENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
discontent
 n.  a longing for something better than the present situation
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  He had been afraid that she would hate the hard life, the cold and loneliness; but not a sign of discontent escaped her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
2  She leaned back in a luxury of discontent.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
3  There would be no more trouble or discontent in the world if everybody worked as hard as Pa did when he cleared our first farm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  It was worth a fortune to the packers to keep their blacklist effective, as a warning to the men and a means of keeping down union agitation and political discontent.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
5  There is nothing to be seen without," continued Hawkeye, shaking his head in discontent; "and our hiding-place is still in darkness.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
6  The young Mohican complied, leaving the scout turning over the useless contents of his pouch, and shaking the empty horn with renewed discontent.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8
7  Heyward took the gourd, and after swallowing a little of the water, threw it aside with grimaces of discontent.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 12
8  A few had straggled among the conquered columns, where they stalked in sullen discontent; attentive, though, as yet, passive observers of the moving multitude.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
9  The steam of so much boredom, and discontent and anger out of all the people, just kills the vitality in the air.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
10  The state of her spirits had probably had its share in her indisposition; for she had been feeling neglected, and been struggling against discontent and envy for some days past.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  So far from being all satisfied and all enjoying, she found everybody requiring something they had not, and giving occasion of discontent to the others.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
12  Putting a glass of hot gin-and-water on the chimney-piece, he drew his chair to the fire; and, with sundry moral reflections on the too-prevalent sin of discontent and complaining, composed himself to read the paper.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  Altogether, look as I would, there was nothing remarkable about the man save his blazing red head, and the expression of extreme chagrin and discontent upon his features.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE
14  The friendly frankness was disturbed, the sunshine had a shadow over it, and despite their apparent gaiety, there was a secret discontent in the heart of each.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE
15  I fancied the discontent of age and disease arose from his family disagreements; as he would have it that it did: really, you know, sir, it was in his sinking frame.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence:
1  There was an underlying current of discontent among teachers.
2  Public discontent with the economy remained at a high level.
3  Perhaps she sensed my growing discontent.
4  For some time there have been murmurings of discontent over the government policy on inflation.
5  The rebels seem to be trying to capitalize on the public's discontent with the government.
6  The country was seething with discontent and the threat of revolution was real.
7  The nation would seethe with discontent as the noblemen continue their arrogant ways.
8  The streets around Place de la Republique are quiet once again - but like a genie unleashed from its bottle, the deep discontent across France is proving hard to subdue.
9  Amid growing discontent in South Africa at the verdict, the Steenkamps criticised judge Thokozile Masipa for being too lenient on the athlete, who was instead convicted of culpable homicide, the South African equivalent of manslaughter, and granted bail.
10  The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.
11  Every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him.
12  A discontented man knows not where to sit easy.