fills (up)

present tense third-person singular of fill (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fills (up)
Verb
  • The fourth installment of the brands’ collaboration infuses playful details into elevated design, offering new styles in addition to refreshed versions of the Classic Platform and Trailbreak sneakers.
    Jaden Thompson, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2025
  • That edge—between repression and revelation—infuses every frame of the series.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This film imbues all of the psychological horror and weirdness of David Lynch’s original Twin Peaks series with a level of graphic horror that likely wouldn’t have flown on ABC.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Keaton takes on a role that could have been all cliché — that of a new mother trying to balance a demanding job with caring for a 14-month-old — and imbues it with such relatable honesty.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The deal marks the latest major investment by AT&T to accelerate its fiber and 5G network build-out as the wireless market saturates and internet usage surges.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
  • For brands, the trend has become an opportunity to market products that speak to the Performative Male; which, in turn, only saturates the dating pool with more artifice that is a turn-off for women.
    Brett F. Braley-Palko, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The pathos of being a veep pervades Kamala Harris’s campaign memoir 107 Days.
    Book Marks October 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • As storytellers, Supergiant have defined their own personal tone that pervades their body work, stretching from games like Bastion to Pyre.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Their pedigree permeates pressure.
    Marcus Thompson II, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
  • And that kind of knowledge, which gets passed down and permeates down through the generations, would be very difficult to replicate quickly.
    Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Fills (up).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fills%20%28up%29. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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