Use satisfaction in a sentence
Sentences ending with satisfaction
- It will interest your mind and concentrate it, and it will pursue the subject with satisfaction. [5]
- Have you done your business to your satisfaction? [10]
- He remembered those years of superfluity with contempt, and as he puffed and panted on his way through the dust, he felt himself swell with satisfaction. [10]
- He heard Byng's words, and for a moment his dark eyes glowed with a look of evil satisfaction. [11]
- The wise caution with which the Emperor Rudolph avoided interfering with the rights of the Honourable Council afforded old Herr Berthold Vorchtel great satisfaction. [10]
- Ingolby pocketed it with satisfaction. [11]
- Consequently the closing weeks of that memorable visit melted away as pleasantly as a dream, they were so freighted for me with tranquil satisfaction. [5]
- So far as we could judge by all we heard, our unpretentious party gave general satisfaction. [6]
- Napoleon's short hair was wet and matted on the forehead, but his face, though puffy and yellow, expressed physical satisfaction. [2]
- How long it was since the last time his imperial aster had gladdened him by so friendly a sign of satisfaction! [10]
Short sentences using satisfaction
- It was some satisfaction. [9]
- Breakfast was a satisfaction. [5]
- Can I expect no satisfaction? [10]
- Kald's eyes showed burning satisfaction. [11]
More example sentences with the word satisfaction in them
- As I understand your present life, I think you will always recall it with satisfaction, because the self-sacrifice that fills it now..." "I cannot accept your praise," he interrupted her hurriedly. [2]
- Mere lukewarm satisfaction would not content her in the case of the Emperor Charles; she wished to arouse his enthusiasm, his rapture. [10]
- And also it would be a great satisfaction to him to feel that he was associated with her in such a work. [4]
- Nothing in the world affords a newspaper reporter so much satisfaction as gathering up the details of a bloody and mysterious murder and writing them up with aggravating circumstantiality. [5]
- He rubbed his withered hands with satisfaction as he seated himself in his accustomed chair, and when Mary came to call him to dinner, it was a pleasure to him to jest with her. [10]
- In her satisfaction with this, and from her good nature, she was contented to be served with her refreshments after the concert by Mr. March, and to remain joking with him. [8]
- He would sit with them at night, pondering with a secret satisfaction, they could see, upon the flight that he and she would take before night came again; and still they would hear him whisper in his prayers, 'Lord! [12]
- In our struggles with the porter to obtain the little items of soap, water, and towels, we were convinced that we had arrived too late, and that for perfect satisfaction we should have been here before the war. [4]
- Murat's face beamed with stupid satisfaction as he listened to "Monsieur de Bal-macheve. [2]
- Her eyes sparkled with satisfaction, and she tucked the bottle under her shawl, saying, "It's prime. [5]
- And he reflected with satisfaction upon the fact that his wife, who was his prime minister, would be home from the East that day. [9]
- He always remembered with satisfaction that once when the Cure was absent and he was supposed to be dying, a priest from another parish came, and, the ministrations over, he had made an offering of a gold piece. [11]
- We left him with only twenty-six dead people to account for, and I felt a tranquil satisfaction in the thought that in so judiciously taking care of No. [5]
- He did this with increasing satisfaction, for though Coello's sketches possessed a certain hardness, they were boldly devised and pleased him. [10]
- Even Ben noted with approval Miss Virginia's scorn for pecks and pints, and grunted with satisfaction over the accurate pinches of spices and flavors which she used. [9]
- But at length, with a grunt of satisfaction, he produced a form and held it under my eyes. [9]
- Having drunk the wine he lay back murmuring thanks and satisfaction, his eyes closed. [11]
- In this fashion, while his regiment thinned out by disease, famine, fighting, and the midnight knife, Seti came on to Dongola, to Berber, to Khartoum; and he grinned with satisfaction when he heard that they would make even for Kordofan. [11]
- Her rare visits were perfunctory, and gave little satisfaction to any of us; not that she was ungracious or unkindly, but simply because the things we valued in life were not the same. [4]
- Others, whose relations were more intimate, pressed forward to enjoy the mournful satisfaction of being the first messengers of evil tidings. [10]
- I bore it well enough, though, and said to myself, with secret satisfaction, "In three or four short days, my lads, you will be employing your tongues in a different sort from this--and I shall be there to hear. [5]
- To the moment we will rise, and there shall be no question of satisfaction, no discontent anywhere--eh, shall it be so, if m'sieu' the General can spare the time also? [11]
- In no other way could the payment of troops and the satisfaction of other just demands be so economically or so well provided for. [7]
- Colonel Woodburn, who was not yet in the secret of their love, perhaps failed for this reason to share their satisfaction with a result so unexpectedly brought about. [8]
- This desirable impression was not lost on Mrs Jarley, who, lest Nell should become too cheap, soon sent the Brigand out alone again, and kept her in the exhibition room, where she described the figures every half-hour to the great satisfaction of admiring audiences. [12]
- Mr. Isham's voice was firm, his face certainly betrayed no feeling, but a flitting gleam of satisfaction might have been seen in his eye. [9]
- When the palace was completed to Dion's satisfaction and became one of the most lauded ornaments of the city, the young men's friendship assumed a new form, and it would have been difficult to say which received the most benefit. [10]
- His later history was called for, and when he said he had 'accidentally' killed a man, considerable satisfaction was expressed; when he added that the man was a priest, he was roundly applauded, and had to take a drink with everybody. [5]
- All through his wanderings during a whole year he kept his injury in mind, and gave all his leisure moments to trying to invent a compensating satisfaction for it. [5]
- Yet in this very repugnance to all his circumstances Pierre found a kind of tantalizing satisfaction. [2]
- At Charley's words upon the Abbe's figure, gaunt and precise as a swaddled ramrod, he pulled his nose with a grunt of satisfaction. [11]
- Pierre instantly picked up the cards, with an air of cool satisfaction. [11]
- A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and-nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stocks snuggles into your heart in the same way. [5]
- Berg, closely buttoned up in his new uniform, sat beside his wife explaining to her that one always could and should be acquainted with people above one, because only then does one get satisfaction from acquaintances. [2]
- We took an unworthy satisfaction in seeing them fall out, now and then, because it showed that they were only poor human people like us, after all. [5]
- Seating himself with unrepressed joy, he looked at us, and a great smile of satisfaction came over his face, that plainly said, "Now my time has come. [4]
- We can even understand those people who get a private satisfaction in being good on other days besides Sunday. [4]
- Its parodies of Tudor speech lapse sometimes into a callow satisfaction in that idiom--Mark hugely enjoys his nathlesses and beshrews and marrys. [5]
- And it is true that the satisfaction of having a situation, of doing something, the relief to the previous daily anxiety and almost despair, raised his spirits. [4]
- As I come towards the end of this task which I had set myself, I wish, of course, that I could have performed it more to my own satisfaction and that of my readers. [6]
- Is it not too true that many religious sectaries think of the last tribunal complacently, as the scene in which they are to have the satisfaction of saying to the believers of a creed different from their own, "I told you so"? [6]
- Who could have told me that I should one day have the satisfaction to look again upon this bit of wood that supported me above the grave that swallowed up my unfortunate companions! [5]
- They had proved to their satisfaction, that the Mississippi did not empty into the Gulf of California, or into the Atlantic. [5]
- He carried it to the Prime Minister, who read it with grave satisfaction. [11]
- What a satisfaction to sell things to Mrs. Spence! [9]
- You was out to save, and not to lose, a life; that was proved to the satisfaction of the court. [11]
- Both were prospering to my satisfaction. [5]
- I had demonstrated to my satisfaction that it could not tell how high a mountain was, therefore I had no real use for it. [5]
- These arrangements perfected to his entire satisfaction, he thrust his hands into his pockets, and walked up and down the office with measured steps. [12]
- I had wished to go to 116 Intermediate and let its occupant demand what satisfaction he would. [11]
- We have learned to go through the lingering routine of the table d'hote with patience, with serenity, with satisfaction. [5]
- It was impossible to get much satisfaction out of the real and the ideal,--the me and the not-me. [4]
- I brought it to a close, as well as I could, and published it; but the time and circumstances in which it was produced rendered me always unable to look upon it with satisfaction. [4]
- And all this time I was busily wooing Mistress Dolly; but she, little minx, would give me no satisfaction. [9]
- Most of the time I haven't even the satisfaction of knowing were he is--London, Paris, or New York. [9]
- At the same time he saw Daphne rise before him in her aristocratic dignity and kindly goodness, and a smile of satisfaction hovered around his lips as he said to himself: "The spider Althea again! [10]
- While Selene was thus making her way with cruel pain, satisfaction and happiness had visited Arsinoe; for hardly had Selene and Antinous quitted her father's apartments, when Hiram begged her to show him the little bottle which the handsome youth had just given her. [10]
- He ran it through, and remarked with satisfaction that it was a pretty heavy bill. [5]
- To withhold from this woman something which would give her fresh happiness and relieve her of sorrow might have afforded her a certain satisfaction. [10]
- At last, when this was accomplished to their satisfaction, the real business began. [5]
- In spite of this overwhelming triumph my feelings were not wholly those of satisfaction when I returned to the hotel and listened to the exultations and denunciations of such politicians as Letchworth, Young, and Colonel Varney. [9]
- I am writing this chapter partly for the satisfaction of abusing that accomplished knave Billfinger, and partly to show whosoever shall read this how Americans fare at the hands of the Paris guides and what sort of people Paris guides are. [5]
- Do we like this because it is life, or because there is a certain satisfaction in seeing the tragedy which impends over all, pervades the atmosphere, as it were, and adds something of zest to the mildest enjoyment? [4]
- I fell to thinking of Brummel, and what a satisfaction it would have been to treat him to a good dinner, and set him talking about the days of the Regency. [6]
- Presently, having got things arranged to his satisfaction, the expressman got some wood and made up a tremendous fire in his stove. [5]
- They say that they say in Boston that there is a satisfaction in being well dressed which religion cannot give. [4]
- Now he raised them, smiling, as if he would fain enjoy Ameni's satisfaction, and asked: "What dost thou say to this project? [10]
- Yet she smiled them firmly away, to the wonder of Jansen, and to its satisfaction, for was it not a tribute to all that she would distinguish no particular unit by her permanent favour? [11]
- The widow followed their conquering march with a proud eye, and every now and then Rowena said to herself with deep satisfaction, "And to think they are ours--all ours! [5]
- I have known the term "spinal irritation" serve well on such occasions, but I think nothing on the whole has covered so much ground, and meant so little, and given such profound satisfaction to all parties, as the magnificent phrase "congestion of the portal system. [3]
- He came to the summer house, glanced around it with apparent satisfaction, and put his foot on the moss-grown step. [9]
- Needless to say, the speech gave great satisfaction to all, and many old friends left the hall exclaiming that they didn't believe Asa had it in him. [9]
- He gives me the satisfaction of developing. [9]
- Princess Mary was the same as always, but beneath her sympathy for her brother, Pierre noticed her satisfaction that the engagement had been broken off. [2]
- In place of the prevailing hair-cloth covered furniture, the visitor had the satisfaction of seating himself upon a chair covered with some of the Widow's embroidery, or a sofa luxurious with soft caressing plush. [6]
- The habitues of the place, year after year, are at a loss for words to convey their peaceful satisfaction. [4]
- Trust me; before the Nile has risen again, a powerful army will have entered Egypt, to demand satisfaction for this murder. [10]
- Hannah's satisfaction over the new stove had by no means subsided, and Edward ventured, without reproof, to praise the restored quality of the pie crust. [9]
- The Indian met the look with satisfaction. [11]
- But she had the incomprehensible feminine satisfaction of knowing, as they walked homeward, that the usual serenity of his disposition was slightly ruffled. [9]
- When, before leaving the house, he looked at himself in a mirror, he said to himself with some satisfaction, that he, as he stood, was worth as much as the whole of Mena's estates. [10]
- You can get the facts of a custom--like caste, and Suttee, and Thuggee, and so on--and with the facts a theory which tries to explain, but never quite does it to your satisfaction. [5]
- He thought of the exchange of documents he had made with her that day, and he had a sense of satisfaction. [11]
- The saying that the Emperor could not dispense with him, but he might do without the Emperor, had originally applied to his father, whose position he filled to the monarch's satisfaction in every respect. [10]
- One can see the almost devilish satisfaction he took in it by his giving it his name. [5]
- In her view the aim of every religion was merely to preserve certain proprieties while affording satisfaction to human desires. [2]
- She told herself that, had he lacked ambition, she could not have loved him, and did not stop to reflect upon the completeness of her satisfaction with the Viking. [9]
- The direct news that the thermometer was approaching zero, with a hopeful prospect of going below it, increased to liveliness our satisfaction in the fire. [4]
- She felt convinced that the sufferer would be cheered by her words; but he made no attempt to show that he appreciated her kindly moderation, nor to express any satisfaction. [10]
- Do you mean that such, being permanent, not transitory, would give more general satisfaction, and so enhance the price--of tickets to the show--" "Show? [5]
- After hard work that had definite purpose, this freedom and comfort gave him peculiar satisfaction. [13]
- If one could take any satisfaction in this phase of her character, her worldiness was purely American. [4]
- She, seeing herself surrounded by such brilliant and polite young men, beamed with satisfaction, try as she might to hide it, and perturbed as she evidently was each time her husband moved in his sleep behind her. [2]
- To her own surprise a power of life and hope of happiness rose to the surface and demanded satisfaction. [2]
- To be the supreme authority on anything is a satisfaction to self-love next door to the precious delusions of dementia. [6]
- The absence of suffering, the satisfaction of one's needs and consequent freedom in the choice of one's occupation, that is, of one's way of life, now seemed to Pierre to be indubitably man's highest happiness. [2]
- Once she even succeeded in attracting his gaze, and this was done in a way which afforded her great satisfaction. [10]
- Is there some subtle sense of exquisite satisfaction in snatching the sweet moments of life out of the very delirium of it, that must soon end in an awakening to bankruptcy of the affections, and the dreadful loss of illusions? [4]
- The accountant, a stout, full-faced man, looked around him with a naive smile of satisfaction and presented a strange appearance among the hussars, Cossacks, and adjutants, in his camlet coat, as he jolted on his horse with a convoy officer's saddle. [2]
- Old Haschim was still pondering it in his memory with much satisfaction when he and his caravan had gone some distance further. [10]
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