How to Use fulfill in a Sentence

fulfill

verb
  • If we could have that house, our dreams would be fulfilled.
  • He fulfilled his pledge to cut taxes.
  • He's trying to fulfill himself as an artist.
  • The program is intended to fulfill the basic needs of children in the community.
  • She failed to fulfill her obligations.
  • She fulfilled her life's ambition when she started her own business.
  • He fulfilled his childhood wish to become a professional baseball player.
  • The question ahead of the World Cup is who will fulfill the no.9 role for this team.
    Manuel Veth, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • And there's a good chance they will be set up to fulfill that in the 2025 NFL draft.
    Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
  • But—for your life to fulfill itself—you’ve got to do it.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 25 Mar. 2024
  • The show will not have anyone else fulfill their duties as the strike goes on.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 3 May 2023
  • The onus is now on the South Asian giant to fulfill that promise or bear the consequences.
    Megha Mandavia, wsj.com, 24 Apr. 2023
  • The company will now need to produce even more units to fulfill the rest of the preorders.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Fans flocked to the chain restaurant to try the hack but the stores were unprepared for the orders and could not fulfill all the requests.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Yes, and to fulfill one of the goals of our immigration system.
    Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
  • But Slovis wanted the chance to fulfill his college goal of finding the right fit.
    Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2023
  • SpaceX has much more work to do to fulfill its Artemis ambitions.
    Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The second layer is getting the right people in the right places to be able to fulfill that future.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Nov. 2022
  • Most make the journey to the shrine to fulfill a promise — a manda — or give thanks to the Virgin Mary for her blessings.
    Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Luke Bryan helped fulfill the wish of a young fan fighting cancer over the weekend.
    Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But the request was geared in a way that no one but the Wright brothers would have been able to fulfill the requirements, says Jakab.
    Alicia Ault, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But Cadillac will fulfill all of the initial orders of the Debut Edition by the end of the first quarter.
    Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Her daughters never lost faith Spain would be able to fulfill her dream.
    Graham Hurley, CNN, 11 Aug. 2024
  • In 2016, Luo came to his own realization that a job would not fulfill him.
    Grady McGregor, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The biggest question is whether NASA can fulfill its promise of staying on the moon.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • All the men of America need to fulfill their duty, get to the voting booth, and end the invasion once and for all.
    Avery Lotz, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024
  • So De Beers unearthed a rough stone that could fulfill the requirements.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2022
  • As the oldest member of BTS, Jin was the first to fulfill his military duties.
    Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 2 June 2023
  • But there's still a huge amount of work to do for EVs to fulfill their potential, and governments can help.
    Fatih Birol For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 23 Sep. 2022
  • And both neatly fulfill the outlines of their characters.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2024

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