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Example sentences for "filled"

Lexicographically close words:
filium; filius; fill; filld; fille; filler; fillers; filles; fillest; fillet
  1. A fire-organ was a raft, carrying long tubes like the pipes of an organ, and filled with explosives.

  2. It filled the room with a gracious heat and with huge, comfortable shadows.

  3. Villiard took the four glasses filled with the wine and laid them on a shelf against the wall, then began to put the table in order for their supper, and to take the pot from the fire.

  4. I don't let no man go hungry if I can help it, and so I sent him downstairs and cook filled him up.

  5. Permit me"--and he handed me a little leather box filled with Russian cigarettes.

  6. One-third of the cabins of the South were filled with the old and helpless.

  7. One is often filled with admiration and astonishment at the perfect working of this mighty engine, the law.

  8. Muffles's garden was filled with visitors: some celebration or holiday had called the people out.

  9. It was filled with men, most of them on the floor with their backs to the wall.

  10. He could have filled as well a commander's place on the bridge, had he chosen to work along those lines.

  11. But I cannot describe the wonder and mortification with which the table conversations filled me.

  12. The situation was much like that which afterward confronted President Cleveland when he entered upon his first term,--that is, every place was filled by a member of the party opposed to the new administration.

  13. The map is chiefly filled with ideas taken from Herodotus, Solinus, Isidore, Pliny, and other ancient historians.

  14. In the Welsh mind it has filled so large a place that there is a tradition of how the bursting of the banks of Bala Lake caused the Deluge.

  15. The squirrels ran from bough to bough, the birds chirped in the infrequent grassy glades, where the sunlight made a bright spot in the midst of this dense, damp shade, and the waters filled the glen with their clamour.

  16. The Wye is hushed, nor moved along, And hushed my deepest grief of all When filled with tears that, cannot fall I brim with sorrow drowning song.

  17. He filled his pipe again and spoke to the phantoms gliding over the dust--"Seven years!

  18. It's busted up enough copy for me, the last eight days, to have filled her up twenty times over.

  19. I noticed that Mr. Harkless always filled two or three--sticks, isn't it?

  20. The streets were a confusion of many colors, and eager faces filled every window opening on Main Street or the Square.

  21. He drew a faded tobacco-bag and a brier pipe from his coat pocket and filled and lit the pipe.

  22. Leave a note-book filled with precious data plainly in view upon your dressing-table, and your room-boy won't for the life of him peek into it.

  23. No one seemed to be about, so he seized a pail half filled with sujee, a block of holystone, and a stiff broom.

  24. A dreary hush filled the black receivers, and then, through this gloomy silence trickled a far-away silver voice, the brisk, clear signals of Manila.

  25. They say his cellar is filled with gold--pure gold; that his rooms and halls run and drip with gold, just as his rat-eaters run and drip with the cinnabar poison.

  26. It filled the valley and overflowed into the hills, a prolonged wave of happy tumult.

  27. The stateroom was filled with the hot, sweet smell of smoking wood, the smell that is caused by the friction of wood against wood, or wood against steel.

  28. The night seemed to be filled with silent, wakeful coolies, armed with rifles.

  29. A box filled with perforated Szechwan coins now lay at the bottom of the river in what was left of the Hankow.

  30. He accepted it, and blessed Peter, and Peter's virtuous mother, and called upon his green-eyed gods to make the days of Peter long and filled with the rice of the land.

  31. The world seems so big, and so filled with things that are hard to learn.

  32. Assured that the deck below his port-hole was spotless, he ventured to the dining-room, half filled and buzzing with excitement.

  33. The world was dark, and filled with contusion.

  34. As the flame rose higher, casting its steady, mild luminance, he caught a glitter of metal, of polished rubber; one end of the room was almost filled with machinery.

  35. An old woman appeared, and went scurrying, returning immediately with a clean, wooden bucket filled with hot water.

  36. In the Tell, they filled the valley and rose up the slopes of the hills.

  37. The news of the Croatian invasion filled the Hungarians with deep anxiety, and the extraordinary excitement caused by it cast a permanent cloud over the soul of that great and noble man, Count Szechenyi.

  38. The movements indicated had already begun to be executed, and the troops were taking position; but the crowds again filled the streets, and at several points the soldiers were prevented from marching.

  39. They formed an army; in daytime their trains filled up the roads for miles, and at night their camp-fires glittered in every direction about the places blessed with grass and water.

  40. These apertures had been filled up with gabions, and carefully concealed, so that their position remained unknown to the enemy.

  41. Gradually your mind will be stilled and quietened, and you will be filled with a sense of harmony and peace.

  42. A sufferer, whose mind is filled with thoughts of ill-health, sits down to compel himself to accept a good suggestion.

  43. It is only when the mind is ordered, balanced, filled with the light of sweet and joyous thought, that it can work with its maximum efficiency.

  44. Martyrs could sing at the stake because their eyes were turned within on the vision of glory which filled their hearts.

  45. I told her about our first day's journey, and how it had been filled with recollections of her and of love.

  46. The havoc wrought in her drawn features filled me with dumb amazement.

  47. He jerked his head backward toward a neat arrangement of drawers and tiny cupboards which half filled his roomy wagon.

  48. It did him good just to think of it, and it filled the mouth full as good as swearin', for all he could see.

  49. But I give Brand another dish, and filled it plumb up, so he got more than she did after all.

  50. Daniel Boone emerged from the corner where he had thrown himself flat, and the Fashion filled with men.

  51. Little glimpses of Hetty's healthy outlook on things shook his own code of conduct to its spine and filled him with a species of awe.

  52. Badger filled the court-room on the morrow.

  53. So the billy was rubbed round and three parts filled with water, and on went some more eels in a new form of cookery.

  54. All this seemed innocent enough, but at the next moment the boys looking on were filled with wonder.

  55. He filled the big tin, and then they looked round for a spot to make a fire.

  56. Dick laughed, for his father's surprise filled him with the utmost delight.

  57. The cry came again, and the two boys, their heads still heavy with sleep, were filled with horror at its wild, wailing note.

  58. It filled with wonder, and then a grim alertness sprang to life all over him.

  59. The air was filled with the patter of falling rain.

  60. Three planks were staved in; it filled and sank.

  61. He drew a long breath, and filled his lungs deeply.

  62. It did taste very good, and the scouts made a hearty meal, and then lay for a couple of hours at ease under the pleasant hawthorns, now filled with may-blossom.

  63. He was told that he must wait awhile, and he filled up his time by some scout exercises, giving himself a long glance at a shelf, and then shutting his eyes and reciting from memory the various articles piled upon it.

  64. At a cottage beyond the hamlet they lent a hand to a woman who was drawing water from her well, and filled their billy with drinking-water at the same time.

  65. However, Mr. Elliott did something which filled Chippy and his followers with immense delight.

  66. She fished out a tin bucket already filled with chaff, and proceeded to climb ashore and hang it round the horse's head.

  67. Of course, your hands were filled with the haversacks, and your staff has been left on the bank where we were resting.

  68. All England was filled with the renown of Robin Hood, and the great and the valiant stood in fear of him.

  69. They then kindled a fire near the tree whereto I was bound, which filled me with dreadful agonies, concluding I was going to be made a sacrifice to their barbarity.

  70. The whole kingdom was filled with joy at the wedding; after which the king bestowed upon him a noble house, with a large estate, where he and his lady passed their days in great joy and happiness.

  71. And having filled their ungodly guts with this supposed good cheer, they hastened to bed, where the fleas fed as fast on their corpse as they had done upon this new found veal, insomuch that they looked as if they had the smallpox.

  72. As soon as his men heard of his death they were filled with grief and dismay, and fled away in haste.

  73. Hunting was prevented, however, by a frost, which filled every one with excitement as to the practicability of skating.

  74. All her entertainments went off well, and she filled her place in the world with grace and skill, just as she had always figured herself doing.

  75. She shook her head, and her eyes filled with tears, as she wrote: "Sirenwood is to be put up to auction.

  76. The court was filled with clothes, steaming in the hot sun, and shutting out what little air might possibly have crept down to the rooms below.

  77. Poppy filled the kettle, and was trying to put a few things in order in the untidy kitchen when there came a knock at the door.

  78. Thick dust filled the air but when he turned his face toward the west no sand particles stung his skin.

  79. The single street was filled with people--women and men from the wagons, and cowboys who dashed past on their horses or clumped along the wooden sidewalk with a musical jangle of spurs.

  80. Leaving her to pack up some food, Endicott filled the water-bag that hung on the wall and, proceeding to the corral, saddled three of the horses.

  81. Wish we had one of them African water-bags," said the cowboy, as he filled his flask at the spring.

  82. As the croupier spun the wheel, three shots rang in an almost continuous explosion and the gamblers fell over each other in an effort to dodge the flying splinters that filled the powder-fogged air.

  83. The bottle was filled almost instantly and he handed Tex the can.

  84. The girl opened her eyes and instantly they seemed filled with a thousand needles that bit and seared and caused hot stinging tears to well between the tight-closed lids.

  85. She found that the Texan had filled the coffee pot and, throwing in some coffee, she set it to boil.

  86. The figure appealed to the Texan's sense of humour and waiting until the deputy was exactly opposite his place of concealment, he filled his lungs and leaned forward in his saddle.

  87. Noticed, also out of the tail of his eye, that, contrary to custom, Cinnabar filled the glasses himself and that a few drops of colourless liquid splashed from the man's palm into the liquor that was shoved toward him.

  88. He held up the half-filled water flask and the Texan regarded him with red-rimmed eyes.

  89. Give me a little red licker," he ordered, and grinned at the sullen proprietor as he filled his glass to the brim.

  90. Again and again the Texan filled the bottle and the can as both in a frenzy of desire gulped the thick liquid.

  91. English and French books here, I see but one or two odd volumes in Spanish, although these packets are constantly filled with people of that nation, going and coming.

  92. Cages full of birds, singing delightfully, hung from the wall, and really fine paintings filled up the intervals.

  93. The whole city was filled with picturesque figures.

  94. We and the family went to the choir; and the body of the chapel was filled with rancheros and their wives.

  95. Nothing could be more splendid than the general effect of this noble building, brilliantly illuminated and filled with a well-dressed crowd.

  96. A platform opposite ours was filled with the wives and daughters of agents and small farmers, little rancheras, with short white gowns and rebosos.

  97. The country villas are filled with all that is gayest and most distinguished in Mexico, and every house and every room in the village has been hired for months in advance.

  98. The berths being constantly filled with water, we dragged our mattresses on the floor, and lay there wishing for the dawn.

  99. We attempted to go to mass this morning, but there was a congregation of léperos, who filled not only the church, but the whole enclosure and the street beyond, so that we could not even approach the church door.

  100. There was a small motor inside, operated by a cylinder of air that could be filled by an ordinary bicycle pump.

  101. It took some little time to haul the nets, but at last, with their own boat well filled with flapping fish, as were the others, Joe and Blake started for shore.

  102. The fishermen knew how to operate it to advantage, too, and soon a double line of them, extending from the surf to the tank, began passing the filled buckets up one side and the empty ones down the other.

  103. The moving picture boys, watching and waiting; filled with anxiety even as they filmed the wreck, saw that the rise and fall of the waves had a good deal to do with the rescue.

  104. The sea-gulls, on their way north to breed, arrive in May, and the air is simply filled with them.

  105. I provisioned her for six months, filled her up with coal enough for five months' steaming, and by June 3 everything was ready.

  106. The former pests were so thick that the air seemed literally filled with them as with flakes of snow in a heavy storm.

  107. We could not tell whether it was actually snowing or whether the snow was only being driven by the wind, but at any rate, the air was filled with it and the prospect was anything but exhilarating.

  108. When tea was finished I produced some tobacco and filled my pipe and that of my host, much to his gratification.

  109. After having filled our water-tanks again, we pushed toward the north.

  110. The river was still very high, and filled with floating ice.

  111. The stream was only sixty feet wide, but it was swift and turgid and filled with floating ice.

  112. Three days later, he returned with the steam-launch and two lighters, one of which was filled with convicts who had been brought to help in getting the steamer off the rocks, if possible.

  113. The natives had told me that at the head waters of this stream there were two red mountains where the rocks were filled with shiny yellow points.

  114. I sat on a sack filled with potatoes, and watched them bring out coffee, then some bacon, then some fresh eggs!

  115. The crater was partly filled with snow, but on one side, where it had been wind-swept, it was not deep.

  116. Every evening its capacious maw was filled with logs, and this insured heat in the heavy stone body of the stove for at least twenty-four hours.

  117. That she should have been the cause of an attack of rheumatic gout to a wounded hero filled her with remorse, especially as this particular hero was the most delightful man she had ever met.

  118. In the other island, near which the Yacht lay at anchor, after burning away the brushwood or thicket, we also came upon two pits filled with water, which were discovered quite by accident.

  119. These seedlings represent very promising varieties, some of them being exceedingly thin shelled, most of them well filled and symmetrical in form.

  120. Of course it goes without saying that we need thin shells, well filled with palatable meat.

  121. They are round, well filled nuts, and are considered by confectioners as the most desirable type of pecan for many of the confectionery purposes.

  122. It sailed together with the ship of Dayfusama and his ambassador, both being filled with articles of barter.


  123. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "filled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abound; alive; brimming; bulging; bursting; capacity; congested; crammed; filled; flush; full; overfull; overstuffed; packed; plenary; replete; round; satiated; saturated; soaked; stuffed; surfeited; swollen; thick


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    filled away; filled with