[ US /kənˈtɛntəd, kənˈtɛntɪd/ ]
[ UK /kəntˈɛntɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are
    a contented smile
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How To Use contented In A Sentence

  • At the end, instead of a fat lady singing, we get a thinner but happier Watt contentedly crooning about how great it is to be alive.
  • And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence. The Voyage of the Space Beagle
  • The former, namely, covetoufnefs, is a very mean and fordid palTion — refllefs, im - patient — and never contented With its A a prefent Sermons on practical subjects
  • Around me the room was pleasantly dark, rolling in drunken contentedness.
  • I contented myself with merely trying to become a migrant worker, a plan that fizzled because nobody in my family would advance me the cash necessary to go out west and meet my fellow migrants.
  • One day he announced that he was "discontented" once more, and should remain so till he had "found a hose-in-hose. Mary's Meadow; and Letters From a Little Garden
  • And pachinko is a national obsession, the parlours offering gaudy arrays of noisy pinball machines where many Japanese contentedly gamble the hours away.
  • And when thou hast done it, to let me understand what he saith, that I may dye the more contentedly, and disburdened of so heavy an oppression, the onely comfort to a parting spirit: and so she ceased, her teares flowing forth abundantly. The Decameron
  • Rue fumed silently as he hummed contentedly and she watched him closely, studying his movements and actions.
  • Bernice lay contentedly at the edge of a sand embankment white as driven snow, her chin cupped in her hands, watching half a dozen or more mullets drift and swing in the limpid clear water below. The Mystery at Number Six
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