How to Use contentment in a Sentence

contentment

noun
  • There was a look of perfect contentment on her face.
  • He believes that people can find peace and contentment in living simply.
  • For the sake of the sport, each should find contentment with half of the pie.
    Lance Pugmire, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2022
  • May the month of the Quran bring contentment to your heart.
    Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 25 Jan. 2023
  • Those swirls in the horse hair are a sign of contentment.
    Diane Bell, sandiegouniontribune.com, 19 July 2017
  • And the last stage of the soul is contentment with what God wishes.
    Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2022
  • As a state, this isn’t the first contentment study that Hawaii has topped.
    Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2020
  • The camels—there were two—curled their lips in contentment.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2017
  • This era of contentment appears to have come to an end.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2022
  • Save your strength for No. 3, where the real work of contentment gets done.
    Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Zhang Shimin kept the beat on a bell and clapper while sprawled out on the floor with a look of utter contentment.
    Mark Swed, latimes.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • The eagles screech and call to each other in contentment.
    Kate Troll, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Aug. 2017
  • Haven is a small cat who lives in cozy contentment with one Ma Millie.
    Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The place that’s perfect for once-a-year fun may not work for daily contentment.
    Mary Jacobs, Dallas News, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The Kune Kune pigs lounging at the edges of the vineyard elude a satisfied sense of contentment.
    Jill Barth, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Spending more time with the people who count the most can add contentment to your list of achievements.
    Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Toughest of all to ignore that voice of doubt that always seemed to rob her of peace and contentment.
    Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Darryl took a sip of coffee and smacked his lips in contentment.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In times of stress, pets aren't merely a good role model for contentment at home.
    Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 17 Mar. 2020
  • That’s his favorite place to shoot. •You’ve never seen such a look of contentment.
    Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
  • It’s about the deep sense of contentment that comes from slowing down and connecting with loved ones.
    Gina Decaprio Vercesi, Family, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Fashion has changed over the decades, to be sure, but some things remain constant in each scene: the blissful smiles, the stares of contentment.
    Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 28 June 2018
  • That’s not to say Republicans are set to spend the years ahead in a state of relaxed contentment.
    Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 7 Nov. 2020
  • Today we are filled with a peace and contentment that only the Lord can provide.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 29 Jan. 2024
  • His days, spent with a monk-like contentment knowing that each could be his last, are now largely reduced to the tree’s shade and the tree’s care.
    New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • The essence of these mountains and forests and open places was a contentment, a dignity, an elation.
    Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • By the end of that year, the scene of domestic contentment had been upended.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Avoid the trap of thinking that an abundance of things will bring lasting contentment.
    Jeraldine Saunders, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2017
  • Weatherspoon sees contentment as the ultimate enemy of a young player.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 19 July 2024
  • Their fluffed head feathers were primarily associated with a state of contentment.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 24 July 2024

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