repletion

Example Sentences

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With repletion came dissatisfaction: a hunger for something more, or for something different.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 11, 2018

We have to earn silence, then, to work for it: to make it not an absence but a presence; not emptiness but repletion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Also repellent at first is the man's habit of stuffing his leisurely, Latinate sentences to repletion with adjectives and adverbs to modify, often tautologically, a stark noun or gruesome verb.

From Time Magazine Archive

Everything serves as fuel for passion: abstinence sharpens it, repletion strengthens it, virtue keeps it awake .

From Time Magazine Archive

They should not be suffered to feed to repletion, and such kinds of food as are most nutritious should be carefully provided.

From Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. by Jennings, Robert