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become full
The theater filled up slowly
The pool slowly filled with water -
eat until one is sated
He filled up on turkey -
make full, also in a metaphorical sense
fill the child with pride
fill a container -
fill or stop up
Can you close the cracks with caulking?
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