We early learn to becontent with screws, and to make the best of imperfect means.
We come, if we are sensible folk, to be content with what we can get, though we have not what we could wish.
To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much--impossible.
He that deserves nothing should be content with anything.
Adam, the celebrated rector of the High School of Edinburgh, that when at college he had to be content with a penny roll for his dinner.
Mr. Ross was obliged to be content with this, but he found it hard to decide which of the pieces he would put upon the programme.
The reader must be content with a meagre description of a visit to the church made many years after the death of the leader, when the excitement was less intense, to which meeting Lancy Gurney and his party are hastening.
Ideally it has a right to complete independence: practically it has to be content with as much independence as it can make good; and the methods which it may employ are various, always open to challenge and compassed by uncertainty.
Little was to be looked for from the Repeal leaders, content with "a small Dublin reputation," with neither the desire nor the talents to lead a nation.
We ask no more than our rights: we will be content with no less.
He will occupy Royal Prussia, most of Great Poland, and will be content with that.
It was just "their lot," and they were taught to consider it their duty to be content with it.
We say to them, 'You used to give three or four shillings a week for beer and tobacco before you were converted, and we shall not be content with a penny a week and a shilling a quarter.
The text may be corrupt; but Ginsburg iscontent with it.
What can be more hopeless than his "there is nothing better, so you must even be content with this," or than the way in which he harps on the brevity of life!
As a rule the patent theatres had the preference, and the summer theatre was compelled for a few nights to be content with a very scanty company.
If you will not be content with my plain, rational way of serving you, I can do no better, nor can I joke upon it.
No, my aunt is about the house; and as I cannot shut the door without exciting suspicion, she might come in; but I promise that you shall be content with me tomorrow.
Content with so much I begged everybody to come to dinner with me next day, telling Madame Morin that I should not be going out, and that I was therefore delighted to put my carriage at her service.
Content with poverty my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.
To becontent with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.
Something would be composed which would be as good as Don Quixote for those who would have to be content with it and would grow in it and would form part of it.
I did not mean to imply that we must be content with playing a passive rôle.
My grandfather groped his way out as well as he could, by the help of the guiding-line fastened to his wrist, and cursed his greediness, that would not be content with enough.
A hard-living, sporting, country gentleman, content withmy lot.
They must have whatever arms are in the house; but they shall be content with that.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "content with" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
