fills (up)

present tense third-person singular of fill (up)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fills (up)
Verb
  • That edge—between repression and revelation—infuses every frame of the series.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 9 Oct. 2025
  • While this modern reimagining could've felt like a copy of a copy, Eggers infuses his version with dread and haunting imagery, centering the story more on Ellen (Lily-Rose Depp) and her curious connection to Count Orlok (Bill Skarsgård).
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But director Kurtis David Harder (Influencer) imbues the proceedings with a slow-boiling paranoid energy that slowly overtakes the film.
    Samantha Allen, Them., 7 Oct. 2025
  • The archetype is, of course, familiar—but Hawke imbues each of these characters with infectious zeal and a solemn, even sacred, severity.
    Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 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 20 Oct. 2025.

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