How to Use fulfillment in a Sentence

fulfillment

noun
  • This relates to the idea that the moon rules our sense of fulfillment.
    Aliza Pelto, Women's Health, 25 July 2023
  • The cruise was the fulfillment of a wish and a way to look beyond the pandemic.
    Christine Chung, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • How the job was hard, but how the people on his mail route were a source of fulfillment.
    Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Chip Smith keeps the videos in his smartphone with a sense of fulfillment.
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • People looked for the fulfillment of all kinds of needs in my parents, and, by proxy, in me.
    Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 30 June 2024
  • And for Dowd, the hard-fought victories are simply the fulfillment of a pledge.
    Steven Gaydos, Variety, 18 Nov. 2021
  • More than two-thirds (69%) would even change jobs for more fulfillment.
    John Street, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The fulfillment of those promises led to the reversal of Roe.
    W. James Antle Iii, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 July 2024
  • The crowds would hail him as the king to come, sent by God to deliver them in fulfillment of prophecy.
    Bart D. Ehrman, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
  • About 5,000 robots and thousands of people work at the fulfillment center, which is one of the largest in the world.
    Nancy Chen, CBS News, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The project came from a desire to pay that feeling of fulfillment — and joy — forward.
    Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The thousands of men and women who work in fulfillment center JFK8, on day and night shifts, full and part time, had the chance to vote.
    The New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Leading that group will be the man whose sense of fulfillment bothered him as the past season came to a close.
    Nathan Baird, cleveland, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Because The Harder They Fall is a good piece of wish-fulfillment pop.
    K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 9 Nov. 2021
  • For me, being a campaign embed was the fulfillment of a years-long dream.
    ABC News, 15 Nov. 2022
  • For Arnold, committing to UConn was more than the fulfillment of a childhood dream.
    Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 28 Dec. 2021
  • Neither of them compared to the fulfillment that teaching gave me, though.
    Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Being part of this summer's World Cup team would be the fulfillment of a childhood wish for Mewis.
    Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • The one place where Strong found creative fulfillment was Williamstown, the summer-theatre haven in the Berkshires.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2021
  • For Michele, who has famously pined for the role for years, this casting marks the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 11 July 2022
  • The arrest also took one of his greatest sources of fulfillment: his job.
    Jo Yurcaba, NBC News, 25 July 2023
  • But which aspects of our jobs are most likely to provide a sense of fulfillment?
    Heather Landy, Quartz, 12 May 2022
  • But the fulfillment center’s vast size is not what Amazon was showing off on this day.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Cook’s visit was seen as fulfillment of the prophecy, and the islanders greeted him as a deity.
    Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 6 Dec. 2021
  • The panel ended with the fulfillment of a promise from Shatner.
    Ryan Fish, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 July 2022
  • Some can struggle to see how small steps today can lead to the fulfillment of the big picture tomorrow.
    Abe Brown, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The story at hand is more about longing than fulfillment, more about absence than union.
    Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Work was supposed to be a promised land of fulfillment, a place where your aptitudes would flourish and—bonus—you’d get paid.
    Hillary Kelly, The Atlantic, 1 July 2024
  • The fulfillment center is part of Walmart’s strategy to grow online sales.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Meanwhile, their emotional connection is on full display as their character arcs take them through a spectrum of love, neediness and fulfillment, which can be bizarrely hopeful and endearing at times.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2025

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