Sentence examples for fills from inspiring English sources

Though both are excellent in The Maltese Falcon, their first outing together, the prize goes to Greenstreet, who (almost literally) fills the screen.

But beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, and my appraisal of the Longlands Lane turbine on a warm spring evening is not likely to echo that of locals who once knew and loved the empty sky it now fills.

The best thing about making connections is that it fills us with the energy we need to find more.

(My mind automatically fills in the da-das with appropriate insults).

It criminalises swaths of society, fills prisons with non-violent offenders, facilitates the creation and enrichment of violent gangs, forces those who use drugs to use adulterated, dangerous products, brings the law into disrepute, and costs vast amounts of money that could be put to better uses.

This time of year always fills me with a desire to drop everything and disappear into nature, but the rules won't allow it; I must make do with these snatched moments.

"The fact it has happened again, and so soon, fills me with a sense of foreboding".

But more than anything, when I listen to that album now, I am struck by its closeness – it is music that presses up against you, that fills the room and carries under doors, through windows, across balconies from dusty apartment to dusty apartment.

Unless they are being used for the specified purpose of determining whether the detained person fills the definition of "terrorist" under section 40(1)(b) then the power to detain and question cannot be lawfully used.

The prospect of two winter elections in 2010 fills no one with any enthusiasm.

Harris said Australia would need to be ready for whoever fills the order but relished England's apparent batting dilemma around the front five ahead of the opening Ashes Test at the Gabba on 21 November.