FILLING in a Sentence

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He laughed with Myrtle, jogged her elbow when she was filling cups, made deep mock bows to the waitresses as they came up for coffee.

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 Meanings and Examples of FILLING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
filling
 n.  flow into something (as a container)
 n.  any material that fills a space or container
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Ethan was standing near the window, mechanically filling his pipe while he watched Mattie move to and fro.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  Scarlett cast down her eyes, excitement filling her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  She was looking at the dirty handkerchief, and humiliation and fury were filling her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  She sat down in the furrows and dug into the earth with hands that shook, filling her basket slowly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
5  Scarlett nodded, a grim pleasure and pride in her adopted town filling her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
6  The seated throng, filling the immense room without undue crowding, presented a surface of rich tissues and jewelled shoulders in harmony with the festooned and gilded walls, and the flushed splendours of the Venetian ceiling.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
7  He laughed with Myrtle, jogged her elbow when she was filling cups, made deep mock bows to the waitresses as they came up for coffee.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  The strong vapour now completely filling the contracted hole, it began to tell upon him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
9  Below to thy nightly grave; where such as ye sleep between shrouds, to use ye to the filling one at last.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
10  As they went cutting sidewise through the water, the sails bellied taut, with the wind filling and overflowing them.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XII
11  She lived with them a whole week long, giving them all of herself, and gathering and filling herself with their young existence.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXII
12  They listened, breathless, when she told them the house in Esplanade Street was crowded with workmen, hammering, nailing, sawing, and filling the place with clatter.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXII
13  In the opposite corner are two tables, filling a third of the room and laden with dishes and cold viands, which a few of the hungrier guests are already munching.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
14  However, one morning Marija took her usual detour, and, to her horror and dismay, saw a crowd of people in front of the bank, filling the avenue solid for half a block.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
15  And I promised him you'd show him the--the-- here the champagne fizzed up and she insisted upon filling Bart's glass first.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 3
Example Sentence: (147 in 10 pages)
16  The belly is not filled with fair words.
17  It was a time filled with wonder that I'll always remember.
18  They were filled with wonder when they saw the spaceship.
19  Wishing you a blessed Christmas and a New Year filled with happy surprises.
20  They were filled with joy when their first child was born.
21  His brain was filled with vapors and dreams.
22  Drop by drop the oceans are filled; stone by stone the walls are built.
23  She is filled with nostalgia for her own college days.
24  I filled them in on the conference.
25  The room filled with the hum of conversation.
26  He filled a cup with cold water and drank it down in one gulp.
27  The thought of him touching her filled her with deep loathing.
28  The room filled with smoke, and it was becoming difficult to breathe.
29  A father's greatest dream is that his child's life is filled with joy.
30  Under the influence of the drug my mind was filled with surreal images.