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

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

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

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

They had already feasted on him to repletion.

From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)