fill
verb (used with object)
to make full; put as much as can be held into.
have filled
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present perfectof fill.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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As big pharmaceutical companies stay on the sidelines, black-market manufacturers, many in China, have filled the void.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Or in some states you need to have a witness, or you might have filled it out wrong.
From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026
These collisions can create tiny droplets of quark-gluon plasma, the extraordinary state of matter believed to have filled the Universe during its first millionth of a second.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Keenan, a gym owner and fitness fanatic from Rossett, Wrexham, has very little memory of the day of his collapse and only knows what happened because others have filled in the blanks.
From BBC ● May 15, 2026
He might have filled the place at the center of himself with the answer to who he was, but he had lost so much more.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
