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.
  • 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 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
  • The biggest question is whether NASA can fulfill its promise of staying on the moon.
    Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • As the oldest member of BTS, Jin was the first to fulfill his military duties.
    Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 2 June 2023
  • The Knicks could sign-and-trade one of the two to a team of their liking to fulfill the $4.2 million in outgoing salary needed to avoid being hard-capped at the first apron.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 3 July 2024
  • When the bridge was conceived to fulfill a practical purpose, it got built.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Should any of these re-entry options prove viable, then the Soyuz at the ISS can fulfill its role as a lifeboat despite the damage.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2022
  • The announcement fulfills one of Biden’s key campaign promises – though not until the tail end of his first term.
    Zachary Schermele, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
  • Customers looking to fulfill their coffee fix can turn to the brand’s new Frosty cream cold brew that uses the same pumpkin spice syrup as the frozen treat.
    Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2023
  • There are plenty of menu items available to fulfill the bundle's main, side, drink and treat components.
    Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The only behavior in the great ape repertoire that fulfills the same form, function, and context as kissing is the last step of grooming.
    Byphie Jacobs, science.org, 28 Oct. 2024
  • The series partners with Amazon to fulfill each school’s Amazon Wish List of essential learning supplies and resources.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2024

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