filling
Example Sentences
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Amid fears of a widespread public health crisis, some residents have taken to burning rubbish piles at night, filling the streets with acrid smoke.
From BBC
Iran lacks a sizable fleet of its own satellites, so even minimal help from Russia could be filling a significant intelligence shortfall.
The world is filling up with GPS dead zones.
They had more or less run amuck and were damming up rivers and flooding highways, filling pastures, even beginning to invade the cities.
From Literature
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Major storage facilities in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates also are filling up fast, with both countries expected to hit their limits in under three weeks, Kpler said.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.