DISCONTENTED in a Sentence
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64 example sentences for DISCONTENTED, such as:
1. Perhaps she sensed my growing discontent.
2. A discontented man knows not where to sit easy.
3. When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous.
4. Public discontent with the economy remained at a high level.
5. There was an underlying current of discontent among teachers.
2. A discontented man knows not where to sit easy.
3. When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous.
4. Public discontent with the economy remained at a high level.
5. There was an underlying current of discontent among teachers.
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Meanings and Examples of DISCONTENTED
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discontented
a. showing or experiencing dissatisfaction or restless longing
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1 Yet to the casual eye she was not discontented, she was not an abnormal and distressing traitor to the faith of Main Street.
2 I don't want to rub it in, but you can see for yourself now, this is all a result of your being so discontented and not appreciating the dear good people here.
3 He had been discontented for a long time, and not without some cause.
4 Nothing deterred by the smallness of his audience, which, in truth, consisted only of the discontented scout, he raised his voice, commencing and ending the sacred song without accident or interruption of any kind.
5 "It is not for one like me to say that he who is already formed by so powerful a hand as Providence, stands in need of a change," muttered the discontented scout.
6 Instead of continuing its discontented growls, or manifesting any further signs of anger, the whole of its shaggy body shook violently, as if agitated by some strange internal convulsion.
7 She tried not to be envious or discontented, but it was very natural that the young girl should long for pretty things, gay friends, accomplishments, and a happy life.
8 Mrs. March had consented to the visit rather reluctantly, fearing that Margaret would come back more discontented than she went.
9 "I ought, but I don't," thought Amy, as her eye went from the bright page to May's discontented face behind the big vases, that could not hide the vacancies her pretty work had once filled.
10 When she was discontented, she fancied herself nervous.
11 In spite of the intense labour and wonderful discoveries of modern philosophers, I always came from my studies discontented and unsatisfied.
12 Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.
13 At another window of the same house, moreover appeared old Mistress Hibbins, the Governor's sister, also with a lamp, which even thus far off revealed the expression of her sour and discontented face.
14 She vanished like a discontented fairy; or like one of those supernatural beings, whom it was popularly supposed I was entitled to see; and never came back any more.
15 Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.
Example Sentence:
1 The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive.
2 Every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him.
3 A discontented man knows not where to sit easy.
4 There was an underlying current of discontent among teachers.
5 Public discontent with the economy remained at a high level.
6 Perhaps she sensed my growing discontent.
7 For some time there have been murmurings of discontent over the government policy on inflation.
8 The rebels seem to be trying to capitalize on the public's discontent with the government.
9 The country was seething with discontent and the threat of revolution was real.
10 The nation would seethe with discontent as the noblemen continue their arrogant ways.
11 The streets around Place de la Republique are quiet once again - but like a genie unleashed from its bottle, the deep discontent across France is proving hard to subdue.
12 Amid growing discontent in South Africa at the verdict, the Steenkamps criticised judge Thokozile Masipa for being too lenient on the athlete, who was instead convicted of culpable homicide, the South African equivalent of manslaughter, and granted bail.