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US
/ˈkɑntɛnts, kənˈtɛnts/
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NOUN
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(usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something
he emptied the contents of his pockets
the two groups were similar in content - a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start
How To Use contents In A Sentence
- Not for a very long time has the discovery of new music so profoundly moved and excited me as the contents of this disc.
- They are hired to crack a safe, photograph the contents of a locked briefcase inside, and return it to the owner without him knowing.
- A reduced short chain fatty acid concentration has also been reported in pouch contents from patients with pouchitis compared with those without.
- Kij: Nice to see Dream-Quest receive such prominence with that fantastic Gervasio Gallardo cover, inseparable from the contents thanks to childhood associations very similar to yours. MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves
- The appropriate specimens to submit for testing include food (in the original container if it is available) or environmental specimens, stool, serum, gastric contents, or vomitus.
- Man, these people are just too stupid to be trusted with appointments - and too timorous to deserve to a university position from which to dribble out the contents of their weak little minds.
- Ever since, leftish malcontents have taken every opportunity to condemn the iniquity of holding all applicants for admission to the same standards.
- The lexical diarrhoea, the mememe contents, the Pennine Chain I-Know-Everything certainty. Fancy Forking Out £80 for Breakfast with Stephen Timms?
- The drawer had been emptied of its contents.
- I remember spending as much time reading the contents of the books in Deus Ex and Fable, and reading the pads in Doom 3, as I ever spent actually trying to beat combatants. Some Thoughts, Part Seven – Games « The Graveyard