content
noun
Usually contents.
have contented
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present perfectof content.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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While other producers might have contented themselves with their achievements far earlier, Marty Krofft indicated to The AP in 2015 that he no had interest in stepping back from show business.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 26, 2023
After last summer, he could have contented himself to rake in cash and sit at home as a kind of chairman emeritus.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
Prosecutors should have contented themselves with proving that the Bundys and their band appropriated and damaged public property.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 31, 2016
A lazier, less passionate playwright might have contented himself with rewriting Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in different ways, or just quit when the critical reception got rough.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 18, 2016
It is not at all strange, that such men as we have spoken of, should have contented themselves with having inculcated virtue, and denounced vice.
From Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries by William Hogan
