Example Sentences

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Always at the heart of these discontents was the battery—or batteries, because there has been a succession of them, an alchemist’s closet of energy-storing potions in weirdly shaped bottles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Park’s not indifferent to normie concerns, such as family tensions and floundering careers, communities and their discontents.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2025

I mean the movies that reveal something to us about the highs and lows, the glories and discontents, and above all something ineffable about love itself, transcending just romance.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2024

There was a lot of roiling discontents in Harry.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2022

But men must work on, and Wang Lung worked as he had before, although the lengthening warm days and the sunshine and sudden rains filled everyone with longings and discontents.

From "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck