How To Use Contentedly In A Sentence
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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.
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He and his wife Khadija strode contentedly forward in spite of their advanced years, and when he saw the lepidopteral blessing that had descended on the toy merchant, Muhammad Din reached out and grasped him by the hand.
The Satanic Verses
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The screen extended from the central keyboards before the seats to well near the ceiling of the room, and it hummed contentedly with electric life.
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When I arrived, Schwarzenegger, in a blue suit and cowboy boots emblazoned with the California state seal, was contentedly puffing a stogie.
The California Experiment
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They had brought down the old walnut writing desk from the loft and had polished it until it gleamed contentedly.
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The chef also goes with scallops, and as we both eat contentedly, classical music wafts softly throughout the well-appointed room.
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He'll have my luck and your looks," he said, turning to Fancy still in her lying-in bed, and she'd laughed contentedly.
PAINT THE WIND
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But Rose-Marie's ears were already deaf to all things save self-congratulation; for sitting in the middle of the highway, playing contentedly with the dust and some faded buttercups, was a white-pinafored baby with a mop of tow-coloured hair tied over one temple with a pale-blue ribbon.
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Some sighed contentedly at the sight of such bliss, the perfect pairing of two people who loved each other.
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I pedal contentedly along in the sunshine, passing almond tree groves with white blossom and crossing the ancient arched bridges that link one hillside from the next.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ship heaved a little, bumped gently against the stone wall, the impact absorbed by the bundles of branches, then settled contentedly into her berth.
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Her nose twitched, then she sneezed and opened her eyes and lay there, blinking contentedly in the morning light.
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Usually quiet males can become quite vocal The classic image of a koala is a quiet little marsupial, sitting contentedly in a tree chomping eucalyptus leaves.
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As he walked his horse down into the camp, the diggers had just ceased work for the day, and with clay-stained and soddened garments were returning to their various tents or "humpies" of bark, all of them contentedly smoking, and ready for their usual supper of salt beef, damper, and tea.
Tom Gerrard
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I was quite thankful for the society of old Kaptein, who was lying down contentedly against the disselboom, chewing the cud with
Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners)
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The cat purred contentedly and settled against Nicholas' chest with a wide yawn.
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A voice piercing from the deep could not have caused in Camilla a more immediate revulsion of ideas; but she was silent, in her turn, and he led her along the beach, while Mrs. Berlinton, attended by a train of beaux, went to her carriage, where, thus engaged, she contentedly waited.
Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
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It strikes me as curious that a relatively new car limps into the garage, rasping and wheezing like a parched man crawling on all fours towards a mirage of an oasis, but then pulls off purring contentedly like the cat that got the cream.
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Clayton glanced sideways at Mainwaring and returned contentedly to his surrey of the ceiling when the marquis began to speak.
LOHENGRIN
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Smack dab in the middle of the canvas, an enormous silhouetted hen sits contentedly on her nest, framed by a field of radiant orange-on-orange floral stencils over a hot-pink background.
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Clayton glanced sideways at Mainwaring and returned contentedly to his surrey of the ceiling when the marquis began to speak.
LOHENGRIN
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My father sat puffing contentedly on his pipe.
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Mind you, for the first part of the last century Wales's away match against Scotland was traditionally the fabled weekend for the working classes down there – with no end of night-special excursion trains steaming up north through the witching hours to deposit all down Princes Street at dawn, a bleary throng seething contentedly with high expectations as well as, it must be said, boozy, beery odours.
Dragon dreams of Barry John, Gareth Edwards and springtime in Paris | Frank Keating
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Beside me lies Magic, my ever vigilant and over protective shih-tzu, while his sister Molly dozes contentedly on the ottoman at my feet.
Sunday Scribblings ~ Tradition
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Look contentedly upon the scattered difference of things, and expect not equality in lustre, dignity, or perfection, in regions or persons below; where numerous numbers must be content to stand like lacteous or nebulous stars, little taken notice of, or dim in their generations.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
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Rue fumed silently as he hummed contentedly and she watched him closely, studying his movements and actions.
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China, dine contentedly upon horse-steak in Paris, swallow their beef uncooked in Germany, maintain an unwinking gravity over the hottest curry in India, smoke their hookah gratefully in Turkey, mount an elephant in Ceylon, and, in short, conform gracefully to any native custom, however strange it may appear to him.
Frost's Laws and By-Laws of American Society A condensed but thorough treatise on etiquette and its usages in America, containing plain and reliable directions for deportment in every situation in life.
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In the supposedly drug-free past, children were put to bed with paregoric, old folks beatified themselves with Hadacol, and teetotal housewives contentedly glugged 80-proof women's trouble remedies.
Michael Kaplan: Drugs: Losing the Longest War
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The pigs were grunting contentedly as they ate their food.
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He took a long swig, put the glass down and wiped his mis-shaven upper lip contentedly.
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As we finned along the wreck, we were met by a large turtle munching contentedly on an outcrop of coral.
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He lifted his head and shook his mane in recognition and went back to contentedly cropping the grass.
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Timmy agreed contentedly, bouncing his way up the stairs.
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He smiled contentedly and lay back on the couch.
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When you stand on Rietfontein ridge what will strike you is the number of grey loeries contentedly flying about your head.
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Clayton glanced sideways at Mainwaring and returned contentedly to his surrey of the ceiling when the marquis began to speak.
LOHENGRIN
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At any rate, her book suggests, she lived quite contentedly alongside the fuggy, all-male locker room that was sofa government in the Blair "den".
Imposing quotas is not as crucial as changing cultures | Catherine Bennett
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Even the celebrated Jew himself, when well filled with calipash and calipee, goes contentedly home to tell his money, and expects no more pleasure from his throat during the next twenty-four hours.
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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I sighed contentedly and trundled off to bed.
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And I promise there is no finer aroma than breakfast bacon and eggs sizzling contentedly in a pan as you take the first, fresh look at the day over England's finest countryside or seascapes.
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The pigs were grunting contentedly as they ate their food.
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While the computer whirred and clunked contentedly doing its defragmentation thing, I settled back in my chair, feet up on the desk, to listen to some Handel.
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The youthful naked satyrs, dancing contentedly with their scantily clad female partners, are no longer shown ithyphallic.
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All these brilliant images took possession of our fancies as soon as the boy had uttered the unlucky word "sluice;" and smiling to one another, we made up our minds to rest contentedly where we were.
Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II
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She took her shoes off then, and wiggled her toes contentedly inside her silk stockings.
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This habitat is ideal for green turtles, which spend long hours chomping away contentedly at the greenery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some tipped their worn hats at him in greeting as they passed, while others contentedly reined their horses onward, chewing thoughtfully on a strand of wheat.
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I do not see but a quiet mind may as contentedly there.
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No one shook with more anger than when they glimpsed a rat contentedly gnawing on a slice of carrot or crust of bread.
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It knelt in the centre of its pen with three woolly, unshorn friends, contentedly chewing the cud.
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It chittered contentedly, its hunger and bloodlust sated.
Who's There?
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he was still rumbling discontentedly when Pike returned bearing a folder of foolscap sheets
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He has printed out his latest graph in black and white and is contentedly preoccupied with colouring in the pieces of pie by hand.
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Already some of those fearless frontierswomen, the amazons of the Fortieth, had come ahead with bag, baggage and babies and moved into the log huts of their lords as contentedly as they would have taken quarters at the Grand Central in Omaha, but Mesdames Flight and
Under Fire
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What can it mean that people should live contentedly in the ruins of their own capital city, the ruination having been wrought not by war or natural disaster but by prolonged (and in my view deliberate) neglect?
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The unicorn shook its mane, then began to crop the grass of the meadow contentedly.
STARDUST
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When I went to visit them Dang was looking extremely pleased with herself and the puppies were feeding contentedly.
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Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours, leaving my colleague to navigate.
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The violin, however, weak of voice as it is, always carries the day, and the other instruments steal discontentedly back to their secondary places, the snuffy old violone keeping up a constant growl at its ill luck, and the trombone now and then leaping out like a tiger on its prey.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
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As soon as the researchers restored real-time communication, the baby resumed gurgling and kicking its feet contentedly.
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Cows graze contentedly in green fields, pigs and hens fossick in the dirt and bees buzz through orchards in bloom.
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War over, and Neville Cardus still in Australia, Prittie contentedly covered cricket for two summers, eventually becoming our long serving and fabled Berlin correspondent.
How the R&A made its mark at Stalag Luft III | Frank Keating
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Contentedly you camp, singing happy-clappy Bob Dylan tunes around the fire before heading out next day at the crack of dawn.
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The cat was purring contentedly on my lap.
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Cream and off-white appeals to a wide audience and most people can contentedly ‘live with it’ in a new house.
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Look contentedly upon the scattered difference of things, and expect not equality, in lustre, dignity, or perfection, in regions or persons below; where numerous numbers must be content to stand like lacteous or nebulous stars, little taken notice of, or dim in their generations.
Christian Morals
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The pigs were grunting contentedly as they ate their food.
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We can perform contentedly on stage, and are well-received by the audiences, who normally go hysterical upon hearing the intro.
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She ate her dinner quite contentedly, and was just going to settle down comfortably to some thrilling tale of adventure when Br -- r-- r! went the bell, and she knew her fate had descended upon her.
The Governess
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The 18th minute, because assigns a penalty discontentedly to the president of the jury, Tan Wangsong obtains this competition's 2nd yellow card to punish enters the stage.
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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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Rue fumed silently as he hummed contentedly and she watched him closely, studying his movements and actions.
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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
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The pigs were grunting contentedly as they ate their food.
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And pachinko is a national obsession, the parlours offering gaudy arrays of noisy pinball machines where many Japanese contentedly gamble the hours away.
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The self-knowledge that I could never live contentedly elsewhere than in Nova Scotia seemed to evolve to a point of rock-hard certainty.
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The other night Leta was sitting quite contentedly in her car seat, and we decided to use that opportunity to cook an actual meal on the actual stove with actual food that wasn't packaged in a box.
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While the children contentedly play with a wooden railway, I look at my tight schedule and notice that I am supposed to eat a slice of Victoria sponge cake for elevenses.
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Hamilton delighted in Emma's ear for languages and music, and her theatrical flair, and in 1791 he contentedly married her.
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Karen Nelson was contentedly lying in her husband's arms amidst the bubbles of the hot bath he had drawn.
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Soon both of them were settled on the bed, munching contentedly as the clock rang the early hour.
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He has printed out his latest graph in black and white and is contentedly preoccupied with colouring in the pieces of pie by hand.
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She closed her eyes, opened her mouth, and belched loudly and contentedly.
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The chef also goes with scallops, and as we both eat contentedly, classical music wafts softly throughout the well-appointed room.
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Cornet always led a frugal and ascetic life, able to live contentedly for weeks on end with the same menu of rice and dried fish.
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A semblance of normalcy returned to the retirement community as the sounds of classical music, current technopop, sports, soap operas, and the occasional furtively tuned-in erotic movie resonated contentedly from apartment vid speakers.
Codgerspace
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The chef also goes with scallops, and as we both eat contentedly, classical music wafts softly throughout the well-appointed room.
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He grinned contentedly as he ruffled my already tangled hair.
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She sits _gracefully_; They live _happily_ and _contentedly_; we employ the verbs _sleeps, sits_, and _live_, in an active sense.
English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
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Between his last conscious moment and the early hour when he would rise, she would gently untangle herself from his embrace, dress, and slip away, leaving him to awake to the sensations of hangover and disappointment and stir discontentedly in his empty bed as he recollected spent pleasures.
O: A Presidential Novel
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This habitat is ideal for green turtles, which spend long hours chomping away contentedly at the greenery.
Times, Sunday Times
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Linwe chewed contentedly, her chicken roasted to perfection.
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Now in a world where most of us walk very contentedly in the little lit circle of their own reason, and have to be reminded of what lies without by specious and clamant exceptions — earthquakes, eruptions of
Virginibus Puerisque and other papers
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Duncan had beamed and chortled and puffed out cigar smoke contentedly, and Lucasta had thought that when he behaved like this, she wished he would go to China and stay there.
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`I bought it,' she said contentedly
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In our navy, both royal and commercial, and generally from deep remembrances of slighted love, women have sometimes served in disguise for many years, taking contentedly their daily allowance of burgoo, biscuit, or cannon-balls -- anything, in short, digestible or indigestible, that it might please
The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc
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This habitat is ideal for green turtles, which spend long hours chomping away contentedly at the greenery.
Times, Sunday Times
