Example sentences for: contented

How can you use “contented” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When Hillary came along, and spoke at a similar rhetorical pitch, she was talking to a generation of contented fellow boomers, in an era of prosperity, at a time when social norms have shifted hugely--to the good--in a more progressive direction.

  • Three years later, Stanley Elkins published the equally monumental Slavery . Though a liberal like Stampp, Elkins accepted the notion of the docile, contented Sambo--though hardly as evidence of slavery's mildness.

  • Conley, the first tenured woman professor of neurosurgery in the country, tells how she left Stanford University School of Medicine back in 1991, after 25 years of contented teaching and research.

  • One picture doesn't a contented baby make, surely?

  • I think the Hartford show overemphasizes de Hooch's praise of domesticity--clean tiles and contented mothers--while underplaying his alienation.


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