How to Use fulfill in a Sentence
fulfill
verb- If we could have that house, our dreams would be fulfilled.
- He fulfilled his pledge to cut taxes.
- He's trying to fulfill himself as an artist.
- The program is intended to fulfill the basic needs of children in the community.
- She failed to fulfill her obligations.
- She fulfilled her life's ambition when she started her own business.
- He fulfilled his childhood wish to become a professional baseball player.
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The question ahead of the World Cup is who will fulfill the no.9 role for this team.
—Manuel Veth, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
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And there's a good chance they will be set up to fulfill that in the 2025 NFL draft.
—Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
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But—for your life to fulfill itself—you’ve got to do it.
—James Parker, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
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The lucky among us had a chance to fulfill our roles in the kingdom of childhood.
—Rivka Galchen, Harper’s Magazine , 18 Jan. 2022
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Managers will be drawn to the one large-cap stock that can fulfill old goals.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
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Wrestling in the state meet for the first time will fulfill a longtime dream for Kenney (35-7).
—Dave Melton, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
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The show will not have anyone else fulfill their duties as the strike goes on.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 3 May 2023
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The friend chose not to step down from her role, yet didn't fulfill her duties.
—Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 23 Jan. 2025
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This foot-long did little to fulfill the promise of its size.
—cleveland, 19 July 2022
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Mendez lives in Little Italy and hopes to be able to remain here and fulfill his dream.
—John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2021
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Running a bed and breakfast fulfills a long-time dream of hers.
—Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 28 Feb. 2025
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The onus is now on the South Asian giant to fulfill that promise or bear the consequences.
—Megha Mandavia, wsj.com, 24 Apr. 2023
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The company will now need to produce even more units to fulfill the rest of the preorders.
—Michael Kan, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
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That means orders that should take a day to fulfill often take two to three times as long.
—Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
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Fans flocked to the chain restaurant to try the hack but the stores were unprepared for the orders and could not fulfill all the requests.
—Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
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Your friends had a choice, to fulfill their duties as gracious hosts, or be selfish and go to the game.
—Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 9 Oct. 2021
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Yes, and to fulfill one of the goals of our immigration system.
—Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
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While on duty, Ayesh carves out a place to pray a couple times a day to fulfill the five daily prayers.
—Zareen Syed, Chicago Tribune, 27 Apr. 2022
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But Slovis wanted the chance to fulfill his college goal of finding the right fit.
—Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
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SpaceX has much more work to do to fulfill its Artemis ambitions.
—Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 13 Oct. 2024
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The second layer is getting the right people in the right places to be able to fulfill that future.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
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Target has increasingly leaned on its retail stores to fulfill more orders for same-day pickup and delivery, with stores fulfilling more than 96 percent of total sales in each of the last three years.
—Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 13 Aug. 2025
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To do so, the company worked in partnership with the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office, which helped refer former inmates to work at the dispensary — which helped fulfill the state requirement.
—Sean Neumann, People.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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