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
  • At the same time, many shared a sense of fulfillment for having strived for the dream.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • One leads to burnout, the other to fulfillment.
    — Bo Howard, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
  • More than two-thirds (69%) would even change jobs for more fulfillment.
    — John Street, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
  • Not about King’s pledge in the first place, and not about the lack of its fulfillment.
    — Nick Vlahos Of The Journal Star, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Chip Smith keeps the videos in his smartphone with a sense of fulfillment.
    — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Use the upcoming weeks to quench the thirst for fulfillment.
    — Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Ports, airports, and fulfillment centers work at all hours of the day.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • For the teen, helping someone in need was fulfillment enough.
    — Hayley Vaughn, NBC News, 9 Apr. 2021
  • The cruise was the fulfillment of a wish and a way to look beyond the pandemic.
    — Christine Chung, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Answers aren’t found in noise; fulfillment isn’t found in chasing highs.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 16 Jan. 2026
  • And yet there is a quiet fulfillment in removing one at a time.
    — Michael Jerome Plunkett september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • But which aspects of our jobs are most likely to provide a sense of fulfillment?
    — Heather Landy, Quartz, 12 May 2022
  • End the relationship, and open your heart up for love and fulfillment in the here and now.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 1 July 2021
  • For me, being a campaign embed was the fulfillment of a years-long dream.
    — ABC News, 15 Nov. 2022
  • What brings you joy and fulfillment, Scorpio?
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
  • This mission is the root of fulfillment and the purpose that fuels us.
    — Tim Heitmann, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026
  • And with that comes a greater sense of ownership and fulfillment in the work itself.
    — Bruce Broussard, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The fable explores the nature of good and evil, debt and fulfillment, love and loss.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The story at hand is more about longing than fulfillment, more about absence than union.
    — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The project came from a desire to pay that feeling of fulfillment — and joy — forward.
    — Abigail Lee, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Jan. 2023
  • And there’s a real joy and fulfillment in letting go of yourself.
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 15 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • None of us, nor our children, will ever find fulfillment through the judgment of strangers.
    — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Each day comes with challenges and demands among moments of deep fulfillment.
    — Rachelle Rutherford, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • To the Inuit, the creation was the fulfillment of a dream that stretched back decades.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Neither of them compared to the fulfillment that teaching gave me, though.
    — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • Over the past four years, the fulfillment provider has increased its revenue tenfold.
    — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 26 May 2026

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