Example Sentences

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With hundreds of thousands of soldiers coming back from the front wounded, Russia's prosthetics workshops -- like the one outside Saint Petersburg where AFP met Dmitry -- have been filling up with ex-fighters.

From Barron's • Feb. 17, 2026

Public broadcasting organizations like PBS and NPR have been filling the void for millions of Americans who keep up with the news from their local public broadcasting stations.

From Salon • May 26, 2025

The millions of jobs that Silva and other new immigrant arrivals have been filling in the United States appear to solve a riddle that has confounded economists for at least a year:

From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024

Hotels in those three states have been filling up for months, and the prices of rooms in places like Indianapolis have nearly doubled.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2023

I have been filling out tea, and after that we took a walk to the river by Moonlight.

From Journal of a Young Lady of Virginia, 1782 by Orr, Lucinda Lee