contentment

Example Sentences

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We see her at the beginning of “Calle Málaga” in a state of smiling contentment, walking her neighborhood streets and being greeted by vendors.

From Los Angeles Times

I should have asked more questions, but an overwhelming sense of contentment seemed to have extinguished them, like a cool drink quenching thirst.

From Literature

Aleys acknowledges the contentment of the Beguines, understanding that their communal labors knit their “hopes, their labor, even their disagreements” as “strands in a single weave.”

From Los Angeles Times

‘We chase happiness when what we should be seeking is contentment.’

From MarketWatch

There is a sense of being "overwhelmed with the emotion" in contrast to other forms of happiness, such as comfort or contentment.

From BBC