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
• And the last stage of the soul is contentment with what God wishes.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2022
• This era of contentment appears to have come to an end.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2022
• Haven is a small cat who lives in cozy contentment with one Ma Millie.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
• 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
• Darryl took a sip of coffee and smacked his lips in contentment.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2023
• 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
• This is good news since our mindset and our choices matter to our sense of joy and contentment.
  — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 11 Apr. 2021
• In all of these cases, joy was felt not as a sense of contentment with the overall state of things, because the overall state of things is messed up.
  — Emma Marris, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2022
• Watching these trees slowly grow in my garden has been a source of contentment and calm.
  — Catie Marron, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2023
• But Moss stresses that the onus on your own contentment isn’t on anyone but yourself.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 17 Apr. 2023
• From a baseline of contentment, happiness may come and go, but sadness, anger, and fear can roll in and out as well.
  — Celia Ellenberg, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2021
• Even a brief period of contentment would have been nice.
  — Irv Erdos Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2021
• That contentment, earned by a lifetime dedicated to the art, made the swift end to Robinson’s career all the more painful.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2022
• In these scenes, the source of Lara’s contentment is sweetly obvious.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Solitude is a choice, your own rejection of the world, your own contentment with being alone.
  — Kara Devlin, Longreads, 20 May 2022
• Maybe that is where track and field, and other Olympic sports, must forever find contentment.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 29 June 2021
• But there are also a fair number of times when Twombly’s contentment just seems insipid.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2023
• Since his return to the franchise that drafted him in 1994 and traded him three years later, there has been an air of contentment about him.
  — Brad Townsend, Dallas News, 25 June 2021
• My life of long contentment with the soldier’s hallowed call to warrant with his dying breath a better world for all.
  — William H. McRaven, The Atlantic, 31 May 2021
• But rising to the surface of the sizzle were signals that not all is contentment in theaterland.
  — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
• When your life is a perfect carnival of contentment, like mine is, there’s nothing to add.
  — Alex Baia, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
• By boosting serotonin levels in the brain, CBD can help create a sense of contentment and balance.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 July 2023
• The Berlin Cameron study also revealed a telling gender gap in contentment with the division of labor at home.
  — Kim Elsesser, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
• The basics of paleolithic contentment remain the same in us and are available at any time.
  — David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024