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
• Traveling, learning and exercising your rights will lead to contentment.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 27 July 2024
• Paige Vickers/Vox Meaning, purpose, success, contentment.
  — Vox Staff, Vox, 13 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024