fill up

VERB
  1. become full
    The theater filled up slowly
    The pool slowly filled with water
  2. eat until one is sated
    He filled up on turkey
  3. make full, also in a metaphorical sense
    fill the child with pride
    fill a container
  4. fill or stop up
    Can you close the cracks with caulking?
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How To Use fill up In A Sentence

  • You could wait until you've got only a thimbleful of gas in there, but why not fill up now and forget about it for the next 60,000 miles?
  • Bouchons were originally wine bars where the local silk workers or passing stagecoach drivers could fill up on a simple, hearty cuisine that was based on fresh local products -- mostly pig in the form of andouillette, fried crackling, tripes, petit salé -- and lots of the local wine among like-minded souls, enjoying their brief moment of freedom amid laughter and loud, boisterous behavior. Jamie Schler: A Side Trip to Lyons: Le Bouchon
  • How the books (not having been chosen with reference to this great event) were of awkward sizes, and did not make comfortable paving for the bottom of the trunk; whilst folded stockings may be called the packer's delight, from their usefulness to fill up corners. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances
  • A youth with a white bandana across his face and wearing a baseball cap walked into the store and demanded staff fill up a white carrier bag with money.
  • This product will fill up vacancy of domestic 3 D information acquirement system.
  • Its simple pleasures include a cute brass hand pump to fill up your bathroom sink and dinner à deux on your deck. Times, Sunday Times
  • Warehouses at the frontier between the two countries fill up with sacks of rice and flour.
  • Clinicians should remember to ‘fill up the tank’ before attempting to constrict the vessel.
  • Take an end-of-summer city break in Oslo and enjoy the bustling nightlife as the bars fill up to catch the end of the midnight sun.
  • The silver lining is that the planner will probably fill up fast ...... "Pathetic" and "Sad" - SpouseBUZZ
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