How to Use discontented in a Sentence

discontented

adjective
  • There's a lot of people out there, and a lot of discontented people out there.
    CBS News, 3 July 2019
  • The company seems to have struck a chord with some discontented employees in Japan.
    Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 9 June 2023
  • Fort Mose was closer to the discontented English in colonies northward.
    Imani J. Jackson, Essence, 19 June 2019
  • And now, in the winter of Harford County’s discontented year, its largest hospital was the first in the state to self-declare a disaster.
    Jason Fontelieu, baltimoresun.com, 30 Dec. 2021
  • England is in turmoil, and as Cromwell oversees the dissolution of the kingdom’s monasteries, the discontented Catholics in the north rebel.
    Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2020
  • And despite Facebook’s dominance, there’s plenty of places for the discontented to go.
    Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 27 Apr. 2017
  • And the most pessimistic and discontented lot of all was white, evangelical Protestants.
    Michael Gerson, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 Oct. 2017
  • Viewers on social media point out that both Gotham and Hong Kong are home to groups of discontented people who feel abandoned by their government and a rich elite.
    Jessie Yeung, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019
  • Managers need to watch for signs that workers are discontented, even depressed, Graham says.
    Joyce M. Rosenberg, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 July 2017
  • Everything seemed to be falling apart for the Bucks, including one glass railing panel struck and fractured by a discontented fan.
    Matt Velazquez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2020
  • Sparked mainly by public creditors and abetted by discontented army officers, the movement was weakened by the coming of peace and the local jealousies of the states.
    Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
  • Look at the many discontented Americans out for social justice today, Grayman-Parkhurst points out — adding that, of course, these assassins took things much too far.
    Kate Miller, kansascity.com, 22 May 2017
  • There’s no doubt that Kaspersky—and his company—are caught in the crossfire of two increasingly discontented world powers.
    Robert Hackett, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2017
  • By Sunday night, a blanket of snow in Washington seemed to provide a calming backdrop for the discontented president.
    Darlene Superville, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2019
  • The result seemed to cement the party’s long march from the political fringe to the center of the nation’s discontented political discourse, if not the pinnacle of its power.
    Griff Witte, Washington Post, 7 May 2017
  • Ahmari and a lot of social conservatives seems discontented with two things that might be separate.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 June 2019
  • Whether by accident or design, Trump picked up on that discontent and successfully rallied the discontented to build a base and take on all opponents.
    Clarence Page, chicagotribune.com, 26 July 2019
  • In his address on Monday, Mr. Ghani broke with the former administration’s tactic of describing the Taliban as discontented brothers in the hopes of urging them to talks.
    Mujib Mashal, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2016
  • Shakespeare has become a mostly May-to-August affair, despite the Bard’s penchant for discontented winters and warring winds.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
  • There can be no assurances that Facebook would be a better corporate citizen if Zuckerberg could be fired by a discontented board.
    Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 26 Mar. 2018
  • So why are the well-employed, ambitious 30-year-olds of my acquaintance feeling so adrift, as discontented as the balding midlife sad sacks whose cliché dissatisfactions made Updike rich?
    Lisa Miller, The Cut, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Uncertainty — skepticism's discontented twin — can be very hard to live with.
    Damon Linker, TheWeek, 23 Mar. 2020
  • The raters join a wave of discontented contractors in speaking out: workers who ensure YouTube videos contain the correct metadata went on strike the same week, alleging unfair labor practices.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Ayorinde plays Lucky Emory, a perplexing and discontented housewife.
    Kovie Biakolo, Essence, 20 Apr. 2021
  • But the macro issue of mishandling the wideout inventory to put him in this discontented position is the more relevant discussion.
    BostonGlobe.com, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Many people are resentful and feel abandoned, a potential pool of the discontented ripe for recruitment by unscrupulous extremists.
    Bill Neely, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2019
  • This instigated discussion of a fan boycott, but these discontented rumblings have somewhat subsided, following a number of smart signings by the club.
    SI.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Until several years ago, Xinjiang had experienced a string of deadly attacks by discontented Uighurs.
    Chris Buckley, BostonGlobe.com, 30 July 2019
  • But the military is facing new challenges to its authority from a discontented public, making this an especially fraught moment in the nation’s history.
    Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The deal has weighed on Illumina for several years by plunging it into legal challenges with U.S. and European regulators, causing conflicts with discontented investors and leading to a shake-up of its leadership.
    Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Dec. 2023

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