FILLED in a Sentence

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357 example sentences for FILLED, such as:

1. I filled them in on the conference.
2. She filled the sink with hot water.
3. His face filled with an intent curiosity.
4. The room filled with the hum of conversation.
5. They filled all the rooms except the sick room.

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 Meanings and Examples of FILLED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fill
 v.  make full, become full
filling
 n.  flow into something (as a container)
 n.  any material that fills a space or container
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  They were a kindly people, courteous, generous, filled with abounding good nature, but sturdy, virile, easy to anger.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Only the young men retained the restless energy which had filled the whole throng a short while before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The dim room with towering walls completely filled with dark books depressed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  The hospitals were filled with dirty, bewhiskered, verminous men who smelled terribly and bore on their bodies wounds hideous enough to turn a Christian's stomach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
5  Blockaders were commissioned to bring in necessities but now it was the higher-priced luxuries that filled their boats to the exclusion of the things the Confederacy vitally needed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  Atlanta had watched while train after train rolled through the town, hour after hour, passenger coaches, box cars, flat cars, filled with shouting men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
7  His voice was still soft and filled with specious humility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  Scarlett, though filled with the universal Southern desire to believe only the pleasantest and most reassuring things about the progress of the fighting, felt cold as she watched the motley ranks go by.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
9  When at last she fainted, there was no place to lay her except on the kitchen table, as every bed, chair and sofa in the house was filled with wounded.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  The street was crowded with army wagons and ambulances filled with wounded and carriages piled high with valises and pieces of furniture.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  She filled her skirt with the best of them and came back across the soft earth, collecting small pebbles in her slippers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  They filled all the rooms except the sick room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  The back kick of the pistol made her reel, as the roar of the explosion filled her ears and the acrid smoke stung her nostrils.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
14  Not even Ashley could have filled the empty spaces in her heart where Tara had been uprooted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
15  The wives and families of the Yankee garrison, filled with curiosity about the South after four years of war, came to swell the population.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
16  I filled them in on the conference.
17  The room filled with the hum of conversation.
18  He filled a cup with cold water and drank it down in one gulp.
19  The thought of him touching her filled her with deep loathing.
20  The room filled with smoke, and it was becoming difficult to breathe.
21  A father's greatest dream is that his child's life is filled with joy.
22  Under the influence of the drug my mind was filled with surreal images.
23  His face filled with an intent curiosity.
24  May your financial future be filled with profits this year.
25  I opened the window and filled my lungs with cool fresh air.
26  He poured her a drink, then filled his own glass.
27  The workmen dug a hole, mended the pipe, and then filled the hole in again.
28  She filled the sink with hot water.
29  Her eyes were immediately filled with gratitude.
30  When she died I was filled with a sense of loss.