Example sentences for: contentment

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

  • Not to drag in my personal life, but one thing that's always given me real erotic contentment is knowing that, while having sex, it's hard for me to get involved in playing hockey.

  • I sneaked a sidelong look at my companion and a glow of the purest contentment spread slowly through me.

  • Those who like it say it's "a sweet, funny little movie" (Ansen, Newsweek ) and that "one finds oneself asking how such familiar material breeds contentment instead of contempt" (Richard Schickel, Time ). Critics also note that two great performances, by Shawn Hatosy as the kid and Alec Baldwin as his gruff dad, help lift the film above cliché.

  • Until, that is, his spaghetti-cooking, Rossini-humming contentment is dissolved by the sudden departure of first his cat and then his wife of six years.

  • The greatest wealth is contentment


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