How to Use fulfillment in a Sentence

fulfillment

noun
  • This relates to the idea that the moon rules our sense of fulfillment.
    Aliza Pelto, Women's Health, 25 July 2023
  • The cruise was the fulfillment of a wish and a way to look beyond the pandemic.
    Christine Chung, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • At the same time, many shared a sense of fulfillment for having strived for the dream.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2021
  • How the job was hard, but how the people on his mail route were a source of fulfillment.
    Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Chip Smith keeps the videos in his smartphone with a sense of fulfillment.
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • People looked for the fulfillment of all kinds of needs in my parents, and, by proxy, in me.
    Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
  • End the relationship, and open your heart up for love and fulfillment in the here and now.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 1 July 2021
  • End the relationship, and open your heart up for love and fulfillment in the here and now.
    cleveland, 1 July 2021
  • And for Dowd, the hard-fought victories are simply the fulfillment of a pledge.
    Steven Gaydos, Variety, 18 Nov. 2021
  • More than two-thirds (69%) would even change jobs for more fulfillment.
    John Street, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The fulfillment of those promises led to the reversal of Roe.
    W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 July 2024
  • The crowds would hail him as the king to come, sent by God to deliver them in fulfillment of prophecy.
    Bart D. Ehrman, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
  • About 5,000 robots and thousands of people work at the fulfillment center, which is one of the largest in the world.
    Nancy Chen, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The project came from a desire to pay that feeling of fulfillment — and joy — forward.
    Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The thousands of men and women who work in fulfillment center JFK8, on day and night shifts, full and part time, had the chance to vote.
    The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Leading that group will be the man whose sense of fulfillment bothered him as the past season came to a close.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Because The Harder They Fall is a good piece of wish-fulfillment pop.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2021
  • For me, being a campaign embed was the fulfillment of a years-long dream.
    ABC News, 15 Nov. 2022
  • For Arnold, committing to UConn was more than the fulfillment of a childhood dream.
    Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Neither of them compared to the fulfillment that teaching gave me, though.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Being part of this summer's World Cup team would be the fulfillment of a childhood wish for Mewis.
    Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • For the teen, helping someone in need was fulfillment enough.
    Hayley Vaughn, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The one place where Strong found creative fulfillment was Williamstown, the summer-theatre haven in the Berkshires.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2021
  • For Michele, who has famously pined for the role for years, this casting marks the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 11 July 2022
  • The arrest also took one of his greatest sources of fulfillment: his job.
    Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 25 July 2023
  • But which aspects of our jobs are most likely to provide a sense of fulfillment?
    Heather Landy, Quartz, 12 May 2022
  • None of us, nor our children, will ever find fulfillment through the judgment of strangers.
    Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2021
  • The appearance of his works is an effect, not a fulfillment.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 June 2021
  • Life is too short to not live it in love and to not live it in joy, and to not live it in fulfillment, and that is what Anna learns through falling in love with Jamie.
    Lexy Perez, HollywoodReporter, 2 Aug. 2025
  • This brings a deep sense of fulfillment and prosperity, whether with a loved one or within yourself.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Aug. 2025

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