contentedness

Example Sentences

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Cumulatively, Ms. Riley evokes fragile feelings of vulnerability and longing among her characters, while gesturing toward a potential for contentedness in community and intellectual integrity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The country is regularly billed as one of the happiest places on Earth, based on studies that purport to rank national contentedness.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2022

Mikkelsen can, because he wears an assurance that telegraphs his contentedness with filling space without sucking the air out of the room.

From Salon • Apr. 17, 2022

Lagging behind the camera, Odenkirk casually peered over the balcony’s edge and, spotting the thing in question, reacted with a jolt, his boozy contentedness giving way, abruptly, to a silent-comedy pantomime of terror.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2022

I feel freedom for the first time in months, and an air of contentedness wanders next to me all the way home.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak