CONTENT in a Sentence

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For CONTENT, below is one of 284 sentences:
Not content with Stuart alone, she had set her cap for Brent as well, and with a thoroughness that overwhelmed the two of them.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONTENT
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content
 n.  volume; something contained; material, including text and images
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Hitherto Ethan Frome had been content to think him a mean fellow; but now he positively invited a horse-whipping.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  Not content with Stuart alone, she had set her cap for Brent as well, and with a thoroughness that overwhelmed the two of them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  The barbecue was over and all were content to take their ease while sun was at its height.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  They had been kind in Savannah, but James and Andrew and their wives were old and content to sit quietly and talk of a past in which Scarlett had no interest.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  She was seventeen years old and she had a husband lying at Oakland Cemetery and a baby in his cradle at Aunt Pittypat's and everyone thought she should be content with her lot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  Mammy hurried Scarlett up the dark stairs, muttering fussy remarks about cold hands and thin shoes and Scarlett looked meek and was well content.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
7  She wasn't like these people who had gambled everything on a Cause that was gone and were content to be proud of having lost that Cause, because it was worth any sacrifice.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
8  If Scarlett had a baby, she would love it and be content to stay home and tend it like other women.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
9  Scarlett always sat well out of the light, hidden in the protecting shadows where she was not only inconspicuous but could, unobserved, watch Ashley's face to her heart's content.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  "I guess that's because he isn't really in love with me," she thought and was content enough with the state of affairs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
11  Now she felt a curious warm friendliness and content.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
12  His voice, his manner, more than the content of his words, disturbed her, made her realize that her pleasurable excitement of a few moments ago had been untimely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
13  They represented the future she had chosen, and she was content with it, but in no haste to anticipate its joys.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
14  And with that she had to content herself, and hasten on to the expectant group on the steps.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
15  "It's a well-earned rest: I'll say that for myself," she continued, sinking down with a sigh of content on the pillowed lounge near the fire.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
Example Sentence: (74 in 5 pages)
16  The research content is the pattern design of upholstery fabrics.
17  Television commercials might seem more professional but beware of mistaking the gloss for the content.
18  Some large chains of supermarkets publish booklets on calorie, fat, and fibre content of their foods.
19  The President's advisors are content to remain in the background.
20  Never use aluminium as poisonous seepage will react with the plant alkaloids and its vitamin content, thus damaging the therapeutic properties.
21  The brain is hungry not for method but for content, especially the latter which contains generalizations that are powerful, precise, and explicit.
22  Aerators reduce the manure nitrogen content, require fairly high capital investment, and are expensive to operate and maintain.
23  But the content is very difficult to locate, and often in obsolete video formats.
24  For several other papers, it's a secondary item to be relegated below the content of the president's interview.
25  There, I had a friend's face under my gaze; and what did it signify that those young ladies turned their backs on me? I looked at it; I smiled at the speaking likeness: I was absorbed and content.
26  I convince that the web is the best way to deploy educational content right now.
27  The content of philosophical works is cerebral in nature and requires much thought.
28  Not content merely to palliate the patient's sores and cankers, the researcher sought a means of wiping out the disease.
29  On Facebook, big splashy ads appear along the border and in the middle of the pages, pushing content further down the page.
30  By her simplicity, gay prattle, and efforts to please, inspired me, in return, with a degree of attachment sufficient to make us both content in each other's society.