contented

Example Sentences

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And it is not hard to find contented heat pump customers.

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

Now, though, he’s a contented family man operating a successful neighborhood bistro called Chez Paul—until fate comes calling and returns him to a life he’d just as soon forget.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 21, 2026

She’d jump in the car happily, give her captor a toothy grin and then curl into a contented nap, probably dreaming of her next escape.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 23, 2025

He’s the contented “Innie” to the miserable “Outie” version of himself, the one so paralyzed by his wife’s death that he chose to surgically divorce his work life from the mess of his personal time.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2025

Thinking quickly over the evening before, she could remember only that she had—must have—seemed foolishly, childishly contented, almost happy; had the others been amused to see that she was so simple?

From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson