had contented
- past perfect of content.
Example Sentences
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Harry Truman had contented himself with guarded silences and careful speeches during more than a month of clamor and vilification over the removal of General Douglas MacArthur.
From Time Magazine Archive
In wooden-wing planes the cautious Army had contented itself with fleets of Ward's little primary trainers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under the old covenant God had contented Himself with forbidding stealing.
From St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians A Practical Exposition by Gore, Charles
If Descartes had contented himself with thus explaining the phenomena of gravity, heat, magnetism, light and similar forces by means of the molecular movements of his vortices, even such a theory would have excited admiration.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various
Yet the Commune had contented itself with suppressing the journals that defended Versailles.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
