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How to use the word filling in a Sentence?

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Someone yelled ‘fire’ and I look up to see the cabin filling with smoke very fast, a few passengers jumped up to open the overhead bin and saw a backpack on fire due to a battery pack that was charging a cell phone. It had basically exploded.

Joseph Fleck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m filling my car three times a week, i would love to ask these execs if they could get by on $1 an hour more. It’s disheartening. They don’t have to decide [whether]...to eat or get gas.

New York

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Deliveries are going to be a bit more expensive… filling up [a] car is going to be a bit more expensive.

Jorge León

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are a few reservoirs that are at or above normal, but considering the great deficit we’ve had across the state and many of our reservoirs, we still have a deficit to go, and we are filling them as we see all these storms come through.

Molly White

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Mattel is successfully filling a void for this age group. They’ve found a way to bring the Barbie fashion doll to an even younger consumer, there’s very little out there in the toy market for preschoolers in dolls that isn’t a baby doll. But kids younger and younger are asking for a Barbie, which is for ages 3 and up.

Jim Silver

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Not only do we think that that would be filling a need, but we also think we can do it quicker and more efficiently than FEMA. And so we've worked really hard to do that.

Ron DeSantis

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It is too narrowly focused and it's thoughtless if you think that the mom who is filling up her gas tank isn't the same mom who is caring about her kids' school and making sure that CRT( critical race theory) isn't part of her kids' curriculum. That mom is faced with both sets of issues, cultural and economic, and so elected officials need to meet voters where they're at.

Jessica Anderson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our southern border is no longer just about families coming to find a better life. The Biden administration has intentionally failed in its responsibility to protect the American people, and Texans have paid the price, both figuratively and literally. over the two years, Texans have spent over $3 billion dollars to secure our border. Per the Constitution, that is a federal function, and we owe Texans every penny they have paid. I am proud to stand with my fellow colleagues in filling the Lone Star Reimbursement Act. If the President won't do his job, Congress will.

Jake Ellzey

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Filling a tank of gas, people can look at that and say,' Maybe next week will be cheaper,' rent is a locked in expense for a year or two.

Ronald Temple

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Your party has made us miserable when it comes to filling up our tank.

Farah Nosh/Getty -RRB- Graham

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The country’s budgetsare not filling up because theeconomy is down to nothing, we have war in [the]entire country so the businessis down.

Wladimir Klitschko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There are many, many people just like that in our communities, they are leaders, they have a job, they have experience, they have communication, they're making decisions, they're filling out reports. So those were the individuals that we thought of when we started talking about this program and exactly what we wanted to see come into The Chicago Police Department.

Migdalia Bulnes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It feels a little bit like Peter Thiel's filling the void where the Charles Koch brothers were, the past decade.

Katie Harbath

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Anyone who is hungry is being fed, we've had people filling up backpacks who need it and keeping people fueled up and fighting for freedom.

Nathan Savoy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Filling up the gas tank is the most regular and quantifiable place where Americans interact with energy costs, and where they may form opinions about policymakers and about energy policies.

Dan Klein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When we're filling up beds for what I feel like something that could be mostly prevented with vaccines and masking, it's very hard to keep seeing the nurses keep pulling that load over and over every day.

Charlotte Kinney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One side is filling the zone with a narrative and the other side is saying virtually nothing. As a result, many swing voters who found Trump's cruelty abhorrent are upset at Biden for what they call minding the store and not having a plan, democratic candidates are going to have to both compete on who has the better solution, who has the best immigration solution, and by pivoting to issues that motivate Democratic voters.

Frank Sharry

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We're seeing two sets of things happening : A lot of vaccinated people getting infected. We're doing fine. Largely avoiding getting particularly sick, avoiding the hospital ; a lot of unvaccinated people and high-risk people who have not gotten boosted and they're really filling up the hospitals, and so our hospital systems are under a lot of stress.

Ashish Jha

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It really helped create more strength, especially as I was losing the weight, to be able to create more muscle so that I didn’t have saggy skin and I was filling it out with something positive was super important to me.

Sabrina Osland

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That's what I mean that it drives you crazy, when I first met him, I would spend as much time as I could filling a silence, just to feel comfortable. And the more I jibber-jabbered on, the quieter he would get. And I thought, I don't understand what's happening ! He's looking at me with eyes of confusion. He's quiet. Did I say something to offend him ? And then a day or two later, he would arrive with a note or a little package, saying,' I thought about what you said.' And he would have his response.

Sandra Bullock

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Instead of using cheese as the main source of nutrients, it really is a side, if we're pairing that cheese with something else -- a vegetable, a whole grain -- that's what's going to make it more of a satisfying, filling meal.

Emily Martorano

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Start a new tradition like making tamales – a time-consuming labor of love that yields a delicious, filling meal, lets everyone work together, and costs next to nothing.

Baruch Labunski

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It seems to me this is a storm that's going to help return some moisture to the soil in a significant way that should green up the hills and the fields a bit more than otherwise, and then, a big picture is that this is a storm that's going to set the stage for the watersheds to produce more runoff when the next storm comes, which is going to start filling the depleted reservoirs that they depend upon.

Marty Ralph

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We have other providers from out of town saying they are overwhelmed with our Texas patients, and so now our Texas patients are waiting two and three weeks just to get even out of town because those schedules are filling up out of town.

Doris Dixon

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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