FILL in a Sentence

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357 example sentences for FILL, such as:

1. Please fill this glass for me.
2. Please fill out the form in pen.
3. Please fill out a report on the theft.
4. A Disney film can always fill cinemas.
5. I don't know how to fill out this form.

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 Meanings and Examples of FILL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fill
 v.  make full, become full
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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)
16  I don't know how to fill out this form.
17  May you start your day with love,fill your day with love, and end your day with love.
18  May the joy and warmth of Christmas fill your home with happiness.
19  Lucy is the best person to fill this secretary vacancy.
20  A Disney film can always fill cinemas.
21  I let my lungs fill with the scented air.
22  His office began to fill up with people.
23  Please fill out a report on the theft.
24  Please fill this glass for me.
25  Remove the old wallpaper and fill any holes in the walls.
26  Please fill out the form in pen.
27  May the coming years, fill your lives with love and happiness.
28  In the test, we had to fill in the blanks.
29  If you want your free copy of the Patients' Charter fill this form in.
30  Running the business helped to fill the void after his wife died.