Sentence examples for be contented with from inspiring English sources
"Now I have to be contented with what's there".
I had hated my husband's unwaged domesticity just as much as I had hated my mother's; and he, like her, had claimed to be contented with his lot.
Spain will, for the first time in this tournament, have an opponent tonight that will try to play football and not be contented with total defence".
("You must be contented with making your name boyish, and playing brother to us girls"). There are the likes of Game of Thrones's Arya Stark, mistaken for boys because of their appearance and behaviour.
In some little time, however, he quietly let his temper appear, which was one of an utter antipathy to a lazy retirement and effeminacy, and not the least likely to be contented with a life of eating, drinking, and money-getting.
'Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.' Madeleine de Scudéry, 17th century Daphnis and Chloe, Abelard and Héloise, Troilus and Cressida, Tristram and Ysolde... these are the lovers with challenging names who linger forever at the backs of our minds, even if the particulars of their stories some times escape us.
