Sample Sentences for
content
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

content as in:  content with how things are

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    They were perfectly content with a succession of B's and an occasional A or C.  (source)
    content = satisfied
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    "Okay," I said, quite content with thirty cents and Cecil.  (source)
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    So Soda had to content himself with bouncing up and down on the bed and pounding on my shoulder.  (source)
    content = satisfy
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    How used they keep themselves contented
    Before this monster was invented?  (source)
    contented = satisfied
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    He ate again, sighed with contentment.  (source)
    contentment = satisfaction
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    That speak a discontent, I think, and—†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontent means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of content as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    Mae surveyed it all and sighed contentedly.  (source)
    contentedly = in a satisfied manner
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    A discontented man was bought in Washington.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontented means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of contented as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    She would have been content as a doctor's assistant, too, binding up cuts and bones.  (source)
    content = satisfied
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    And although he said nothing when O-lan pulled the tender cooked flesh apart with her chopsticks, and although he said nothing when she gave great pieces of it to the old man and to the boys and even filled the mouth of the girl with it and ate of it herself, he himself would have none of it, contenting himself with the cabbage he had bought.†  (source)
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    CLARA [throwing herself discontentedly into the Elizabethan chair].†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontentedly reverses the meaning of contentedly. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    To Danforth directly: And I think you will want to know, from each and every one of them, what discontents them with you!†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "dis-" in discontents means not or opposite. It reverses the meaning of contents--which in this case referred to people who are contented prior to being reverse. This is the same pattern as seen in words like disagree, disconnect, and disappear.
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    Inside their cedar tree, for nearly four years, he and Hatsue had held one another with the dreamy contentedness of young lovers.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    The oxygen content is decreased.  (source)
    content = that is contained within
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    GSS had also licensed preexisting virtual worlds from their competitors, so content that had already been created for games like Everquest and World of Warcraft was ported over to the OASIS, and copies of Norrath and Azeroth were added to the growing catalog of OASIS planets.  (source)
    content = material
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    I press air from my lungs and tip the contents of the vial into my mouth.  (source)
    contents = what was inside it
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    Unwrapping it back in my hotel room, I crumbled the contents across a leaf of cigarette paper.  (source)
    contents = things inside
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    Users could also alter the content of the virtual worlds inside the OASIS, or create entirely new ones.  (source)
    content = things within
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    He swallowed the contents and returned it to me.  (source)
    contents = what it held
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    "The blog won't create content for itself, I suppose," her dad murmured.  (source)
    content = something that is created to be shared with others, like writing, pictures, or videos
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    But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.  (source)
    contents = what was inside it
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    So it seems like Chinese authorities aren't as sensitive to religious content as they are to political content?  (source)
    content = material
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    " 'Answers to the name of Buck,' " the man soliloquized, quoting from the saloon-keeper's letter which had announced the consignment of the crate and contents.  (source)
    contents = contained items
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    This diamond he greets your wife withal, By the name of most kind hostess; and shut up In measureless content.  (source)
    content = satisfaction
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    Stone spread a surgical drape on the table and shook out the contents of the bag.  (source)
    contents = things within
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    Of any book, the Bible embodies the purest form of product packaging, the same content repackaged a million times over, in new combinations ad infinitum.  (source)
    content = material
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