FILL in a Sentence

Learn FILL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
357 example sentences for FILL, such as:
1. Fair words fill not the belly.
2. Mere words will not fill a bushel.
3. Please fill out the attached blank.
4. The cask savours of the first fill.
5. Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of FILL
fill
 v.  fill to satisfaction
 n.  any material that fills a space or container
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  For mile after mile the trenches encircled the town, red gashes surmounted by red mounds, waiting for the men who would fill them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
2  She never looked out of her window at green pastures and red fields and tall tangled swamp forest that a sense of beauty did not fill her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
3  Suellen, you and Carreen fill the baskets with as much food as you can carry and get to the woods.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  There aren't any fresh men to fill the ranks and the desertions are running high--higher than the army likes to admit.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  And Wade could have nourishing food to fill out his thin cheeks and warm clothes and a governess and afterward go to the university.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
6  He can't no more keep a plow straight in a furrow than little Beau can, and what he don't know about makin things grow would fill a book.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
7  Remembering the last harsh words Rhett had hurled at her about Wade and Ella, she tried to fill in some of her empty hours with them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
8  She would gladly have another child, several children, if they would take that look out of Rhett's eyes and fill up the aching spaces in her own heart.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
9  "It would not take more than six dozen to fill that bowl," she argued.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  It was understood that Miss Bart should fill the gap in such emergencies, and she usually recognized the obligation without a murmur.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
11  Lily gave him a startled look: his voice was louder than usual, and the room was beginning to fill with people.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
12  The message necessarily left large gaps for conjecture; but all that he had recently heard and seen made these but too easy to fill in.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 3
13  It widened as she turned to go, and no one advanced to fill it up.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 4
14  He laid his hand for a moment on hers, and there passed between them, on the current of the rare contact, one of those exchanges of meaning which fill the hidden reservoirs of affection.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 8
15  Bea was twice called to fill the hot-water pitcher and to make cinnamon toast.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
Example Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
1  We'll need to fill the story out to make a full page article.
2  Work expands so as to fill the time available.
3  The UK should find another weapon to fill the same role.
4  Mere words will not fill a bushel.
5  When you fill in the form, please write clearly/legibly in black ink.
6  It seemed that nothing could fill the aching black void left by Rachel's death.
7  May every special happiness fill this day for you and may the year bring all the best things you are looking forward to.
8  They tried to describe their attempts to fill the void left by their son's death.
9  His presence should fill the power vacuum which has been developing over the past few days.
10  Fair words fill not the belly.
11  The cask savours of the first fill.
12  Quick feet and busy hands fill the mouth.
13  Please fill out the attached blank.
14  Painting helps fill a spiritual need for beauty.
15  May the season's joy fill you all the year round.