Sentence examples for nearly filling from inspiring English sources

Students streamed out of buildings, nearly filling the block.

Fourteen of the 21 soldiers were transferred to the intensive care unit, nearly filling it to capacity.

The forms heave to either side, nearly filling the available space but leaving a narrow path to a tiny figure pulling a sled in the distance.

From a small saucepan of boiling stock, he poured about two cups, which percolated to the bottom of the layered pot, nearly filling it.

PHOENIX — Two sides of the immigration debate converged here Saturday: a throng of several thousand marching for five miles opposed to Arizona's new immigration law, and several thousand nearly filling a nearby stadium in the evening in support of it.

There are about 135 paintings nearly filling the museum, organized not chronologically but according to a dozen mini-themes (Women in Public, Childhood, Weeping Women, Knights and Ghosts, the Fallen, Flyers, Landscapes, among others).

It nearly filled the glass.

The small dining room was nearly filled.

Nearly filled the poly bag I had.

Monday's enthusiastic audience nearly filled the hall.

I'm not sure why, and I nearly filled in a "T" instead of an "H".